Load shedding will limit their ability to cut data prices, cellular operators warn.
Stage 4 load shedding places additional strain on towers as batteries are increasingly unable to recharge before load shedding returns. This as operators spend millions on emergency power supplies and security for cellular towers across the country. “[Load shedding] will significantly impact our ability to drive the costs of data down, as our underlying costs will be higher,” Rain spokesperson Khaya Dlanga told Business Insider South Africa.The country’s largest cellular provider, Vodacom, said various input costs, including the emergency electricity to supply to cellular towers, will impact its data pricing.
DeborahMillsS BISouthAfrica This is Bullshit... data doesn’t get more expensive due to power cuts. Networks can’t expect Consumers to pay for Government mistakes.. take it up with them..
BISouthAfrica I understand that a company’s purpose is to make money but keep in mind that prostitutes are the only people who make money by fucking everyone else
BISouthAfrica Next they'll be increasing the price of candles and matchsticks 😩😩😩😩
BISouthAfrica How? I cant see the link between load shedding and price of data Can someone enlighten me? Vodacom MTNza CellC
BISouthAfrica Haibo I want out of this country
BISouthAfrica The ANC really turned SA into a Woolworths Republic
BISouthAfrica Ai jah neh 🤐
BISouthAfrica And yet many African countries who dont have steady electricity (i.e are in a perpetual state of loadshedding) still have much lower data prices than SA
BISouthAfrica It's already taking a toll on service providers.
BISouthAfrica Data ingena kuphi kuloadshedding, maybe thina we should shed data sibone what’s going to happen
BISouthAfrica cant it hit voice prices rather?
BISouthAfrica What a great excuse by cell pho e service providers to overcharge even more on data! Incredible! Be ashamed, very ashamed to pray on the victims!
BISouthAfrica What have data price to do with load shedding?
BISouthAfrica Here we go again money money money.
BISouthAfrica This is Satan’s work
BISouthAfrica Load shedding e vaya le network manje why are we suffering?
BISouthAfrica Will jst stop buying data
BISouthAfrica The ANC leads
BISouthAfrica Dont talk kak
mduie_ BISouthAfrica Nokx_Mnisi tla o bone
BISouthAfrica Geez, where does the corruption end? Can't wait to hear their reasoning
BISouthAfrica 🤦😪Ohhh no. Not another crisis .
BISouthAfrica TelkomZA Vodacom MTNza CellC ......we are paying too much already. Don't dare.
He banna! We are being attacked from all angles. Kuyanyiwa!
BISouthAfrica Looking for an extra buck as always. Die cell companies, die.
BISouthAfrica Heban. Aowa la lwa byanong😂😂😂😂
BISouthAfrica Data now e kena kae here comes scammers i knew they don't want to miss the feast
BISouthAfrica Please explain?
BISouthAfrica 😳😳😡😡😡
BISouthAfrica Load shedding how does it affect Data?
BISouthAfrica Cellphone companies joining the rip off party now Almost no signal with load shedding ..will this new rip off master plan only be when it's load shedding? Probably not ..thiefs!!
BISouthAfrica As we start buying rain sim cards
BISouthAfrica Byang when we don't even have network when there is load shedding? Or is that the reason?
BISouthAfrica So another excuse to screw the customers on call and data cost! Wonder what ICASA will say about this?
BISouthAfrica Yhoo!!!
BISouthAfrica All ready the data price in SA are expensive in world so what damn hit price is that
BISouthAfrica Hayi!
BISouthAfrica This crooks network companies are opportunists
BISouthAfrica Banyela...
BISouthAfrica Wtf?
BISouthAfrica Whays happening to our lovely country, our government still thinks its a world class African state cause they live in houses with under floor heating while everyone else is trying to make pap on a fire, this is forced poverty, You took my human right away.
BISouthAfrica Bloody vultures!
BISouthAfrica Bayanya bafuna excuse
BISouthAfrica Kanjani?
BISouthAfrica AmandlaMobi watch out for this!
BISouthAfrica Voetsek Eskom_SA
BISouthAfrica Nee fok man😩😩
BISouthAfrica RukahsUrama
BISouthAfrica And yet Cell C's data and phone signal don't work at all during load shedding times
BISouthAfrica Hayibo bangena phi?, baxhumaphi..
BISouthAfrica So what was the reason for high data prices when there was no load shedding? They must respect us
BISouthAfrica Prices were cut? Networks can cut prices? Limit their ability?
BISouthAfrica Watch Vodacom make us pay R200 for 1GB. 😭
BISouthAfrica Heh bathong lena
BISouthAfrica Now i believe that theres an agenda .. there is a bigger ploy t play here... a country that leaks billions in corruption cant supply power first they cut out power, power then connects to the cutting of water, water turns to communication... whats next, food ask yourself
BISouthAfrica NoChill4D come read this ..
BISouthAfrica Njani manje😂🤣
BISouthAfrica Haai these crooks are taking chances now
BTM_Khalifa BISouthAfrica They found an excuse 😂😂😂
BISouthAfrica I have noted the silence from SACP & COSATU around this load shedding saga....
BISouthAfrica But connection is bad during loadshedding. What exactly would we be paying for?
Mtamerri BISouthAfrica Wait, what happened to the same data prices when the load shedding was beaten a few years ago? Siyanyelwa la. No actually siyanyiswa nje deliberately.
BISouthAfrica This is a robbery... Stop it
BISouthAfrica Yooh hai ANC
BISouthAfrica Oh really Been hitting us all hard always
BISouthAfrica They are looking for excuses to lower data prices
BISouthAfrica It's a conspiracy between Eskom and the Cell Companies, Eskom will get a cut of the additional fees earned 😄
BISouthAfrica How?
BISouthAfrica We are already paying high prices for data compared to any semi-developed country in the world, and now, the networks are threatening us like this?
BISouthAfrica Should they implement this, ICASA must then be investigated for Collussion. The fact that data prices dropping has taken so long to finalize shows that they are the problem as the Regulator. We might have a boycott on our hands. Any provider who does not drop prices, must pay.
BISouthAfrica This is when you know this industry is monopolised and UNREGULATED. They have the same challenges in other countries but are charging LESS THAN IN SA, so dont talk nonsense.When even cellphone companies think we are stupid anc voters. You have been ROBBING US for years. 🤫🤫🤫
BISouthAfrica Aaay suka thathani logesi wenu mngqundu yenu.
CallMeNjebs BISouthAfrica So they are using loadshedding to rip us off manje?
BISouthAfrica How is that even possible? What the also generate data via coal? Data company are scrupulous.
BISouthAfrica Vodacom hired security and their security officers were robbed and tied up. Find where the batteries are being sold to and stop the crime maybe 🤷🏻♀️
BISouthAfrica Oh come on, don’t fu*% around yaz😡😡😡
BISouthAfrica Siyanyeleka lakhaya stru😠
BISouthAfrica They're crazy because whenever there's load shedding I lose connection.
BISouthAfrica
BISouthAfrica What?!
BISouthAfrica Lol that would be stage 5🤣🤣
BISouthAfrica They are now taking chances with us on another level
BISouthAfrica Huh!
BISouthAfrica That doesn't even work when there is load shedding
BISouthAfrica Aowa bathong 😳😳
BISouthAfrica We all need a vacation from this country🙆🏽♀️😌😓
BISouthAfrica ..............
Mtamerri BISouthAfrica Malooty Gigaba said 'we gon be alright' 😮
BISouthAfrica Mxa Mara bayahlanya laba serious
Mtamerri BISouthAfrica Ra jewa as a nation.
BISouthAfrica Baphambene, infact baya poopa.
BISouthAfrica close this country with immediate effect, ngeke
BISouthAfrica Every company is looking to cash in on this load shedding.
BISouthAfrica I read this so many times trying to understand 🤷🏽.
BISouthAfrica
BISouthAfrica ....It's A Double Whammy 😭😭😭😭 Jesus I Pray For Myself 🙏
BISouthAfrica Opportunists!!
BISouthAfrica Bull shit, something has to be done to fix this country
BISouthAfrica Yeah, they don't want to suffer like the rest of us, they'll simple raise the prices. put the burden on us.
BISouthAfrica The network infrastructure is also taking massive strain due to the constant power outages. Maybe if South Africans stopped voting for those responsible for these outages, we wouldn't be here. Enjoy f*kol data
BISouthAfrica Kunyiwa everywhere like that guy that shat all over the bathroom 😭😭😭
BISouthAfrica People what is going. How is load shedding affecting even data? No something's not right here I swear
BISouthAfrica Kanjankuhlanganaphi Ayi asifundile thina asi understand
BISouthAfrica How? Why?
BISouthAfrica There are more than 8 cellphone network providers in Nigeria, the worst country in Africa, yet these cellphone companies are Fighting each other for the cheapest data price to win customers majority network. The government must allow cellphone companies from Nigeria to come in.
BISouthAfrica Maybe we shouldn't have electricity once and for all and see if the very data will be bought😔😔nx
BISouthAfrica Vodacom Users .. Does Vodacom update its users with new customer services numbers,emergency numbers,rica numbers,new sim card activation numbers,new sim card data sizes or secure sim card types?
BISouthAfrica Yazin bafethu akunyiwe
BISouthAfrica Hayi siyakwayelwa ke manje
BISouthAfrica Data prices are high already. Evil
BISouthAfrica I think it's time I visit rain Mobile. R50/gig
BISouthAfrica Nah my country is a scam yoh 😂🙌🏃♀️
BISouthAfrica Another contract to cancel! I’ll stick tomy telkom that dnt threaten!
BISouthAfrica 😂😂😂😂 Mara rannyelwa mo satafrika weitsi!
BISouthAfrica What an excuse for these greedy vultures to dig deeper into our wallets
BISouthAfrica What fuckarry is that manje..
BISouthAfrica Someone explain to me how, even if it's a lie
BISouthAfrica Banana County
BISouthAfrica So how do you get to that is mtn vodacom cell c part of Eskom😠😠😠😠😠
BISouthAfrica The nerve!!!
BISouthAfrica Geez, but they are digging deep for excuses
BISouthAfrica Bayaxhapha
BISouthAfrica This has to be some kinda joke, they need to explain how these scammers
BISouthAfrica LOL
BISouthAfrica Because they’ll need to secure generators or power stations and we’ll need to finance it?
BISouthAfrica Next is fuel. Watch this sisezokunya nyi.
BISouthAfrica Kak excuse to try make more money.
BISouthAfrica Lol.
BISouthAfrica Why?
BISouthAfrica Bayanya kengoku
BISouthAfrica But all the signals die when loadshedding starts
BISouthAfrica le tla ka masepa
BISouthAfrica How so?
BISouthAfrica They can’t I have a contract
BISouthAfrica Mnxim