{"id":71012,"date":"2013-02-21T15:59:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T13:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=71012"},"modified":"2013-02-22T08:30:08","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T06:30:08","slug":"mobile-data-rates-under-the-microscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/71012-mobile-data-rates-under-the-microscope.html","title":{"rendered":"Mobile data rates under the microscope"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Internet Service Providers\u2019 Association of South Africa (ISPA<\/a>) wants to put mobile data rates between cellular providers in the spotlight, co-chairperson Marc Furman<\/a> recently said at a press event.<\/p>\n

He said that they aren\u2019t ready to talk about a concrete strategy, but said that they want to look at costs such as the per-Gigabyte and APN rates that mobile network operators charge their customers.<\/p>\n

Mobile data pricing ranges from as low as R0.02\/MB (or R20\/GB) when used in a data bundle, but can go as high as R2\/MB out-of-bundle.<\/p>\n

\"Marc

Marc Furman<\/p><\/div>\n

ISPA went on to explain that mobile operators have no model for virtual operators, or for other resellers, while these models are available in the fixed-line space.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing a converged ISP and meeting the needs of your customers is nigh impossible,\u201d said Mohammad Patel, deputy chair of the Wireless Access Providers\u2019 Association of South Africa (WAPA<\/a>).<\/p>\n

More mobile data price news<\/h3>\n

Cheapest ever mobile data prices in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Prepaid mobile data price comparison<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Virgin Mobile joins data price war<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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ISPA wants to look at mobile data rates and not only voice termination rates<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":26067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,18268,18266,6489],"class_list":["post-71012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-headline","tag-internet-service-providers-association-ispa","tag-mark-furman","tag-mohammad-patel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71012"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71014,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71012\/revisions\/71014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}