Government, through the country’s telecoms regulator, POTRAZ, has increased the price of voice calls and Internet provided via Fibre, WiMax and ADSL in Zimbabwe. It has however not increased the price of mobile data which remains at 5 cents per MB out-of-bundle.
This follows a request that was made by mobile and fixed operators – Econet, NetOne, Telecel, Africom, TelOne – who had appealed to the regulator to allow an increase in tariffs because of the forex exchange rate that has gone as high as 1:4 on the parallel market (USD to RTGS$).
Here are the new prices:
Telecoms Services New Prices 22 March 2019
Compiled by news.pindula.co.zw| Service | Old Price | New Price (RTGS$) |
|---|---|---|
| Mobile Data (out of bundle) | $0.05 per MB (5 cents) | $0.05 per MB (5 cents) |
| Fibre internet data | $0.0011 per MB | $0.0028 per MB |
| ADSL | $0.0012 per MB | $0.0030 per MB |
| On Net Calls (e.g Econet to Econet call) | $0.1317 per minute (13 cents) | $0.17 per minute (17 cents) |
| Off Net Calls (e.g. Econet to NetOne call) | $0.1617 per minute (13 cents) | $0.17 per minute (13 cents) |
| TelOne On Net Voice Calls (i.e. TelOne to TelOne) | $0.05 per minute (5 cents) | $0.133 per minute (13 cents) |
| TelOne to other networks | $0.113 per minute (11 cents) | $0.133 per minute (13 cents) |
Here are the sections with the new prices taken from a letter sent to operators by POTRAZ today: