{"id":550905,"date":"2006-11-23T23:57:05","date_gmt":"2006-11-23T23:57:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550905-mobile-operators-keep-prices-high.html"},"modified":"2006-11-23T23:57:05","modified_gmt":"2006-11-23T23:57:05","slug":"mobile-operators-keep-prices-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550905-mobile-operators-keep-prices-high.html","title":{"rendered":"Mobile operators keep prices high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Speaking at a recent mobile conference he said that the mobile operators wanted to look after their revenue from SMS and voice to protect their profits. Smith said that these big mobile providers also controlled the speed of growth of the wireless market.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cGrowth could be significantly more if they stopped worrying about cannibalizing other products,\u201d said Smith.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Smith added that in SA the mobile providers have far higher ARPU\u2019s (average revenue per user) than international operators. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">ARPUs are currently seen as the benchmark for the profitability of mobile providers worldwide, with the reasoning being that the more your customers spend on average the better.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Smith criticized the mobile operators as having not embraced the market to grow it.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=59367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discuss this article<\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winston Smith, the product manager from Sentech, stated that he believes that the mobile operators are keeping the prices high in order to protect some of their primary sources of income.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}