Cellphone companies are ripping us off
This article below was published by MyBroadband:
Cellphone companies like MTN are ripping consumers off and someone must put an end to their unethical profiteering, said Right2Know.
By Staff Writer – September 17, 2015
Cellphone companies like MTN are ripping consumers off and someone must put an end to their unethical profiteering. This is according to Right2Know.
Right2Know will picket at MTN’s head office on 18 September, demanding a cut in the cost of airtime and data; free SMS messages for all; transformation of the telecommunications industry; and support for the Consumer Commission’s challenge to expiring airtime and data.
“While this is one of the most economically unequal countries in the world, South Africans pay among the highest rates in the world for telecommunications services – including for airtime and data,” it said.
“This is not acceptable. Such exorbitant mobile phone charges negatively affect our right to communicate. The right to communicate is central to our right to know.”
The planned protest follows the the release of research by the Link Centre at Wits University, in collaboration with Right2Know, which stated that the “poor” don’t want free airtime – just 1c per minute calls.
