MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita says their South African business needs to manage demand for data.
MTN Group CEO Ralph Mupita has said that the price of data on their residential fixed wireless access 4G and 5G products in South Africa is too low.
MyBroadband asked whether this would be the new trend — where a massive increase in data traffic would be needed to register a small increase in revenue.MTN SA’s results showed that data consumption among postpaid subscribers had increased 51% to 21.9 GB compared to last year, whereas prepaid data consumption increased 9.9% to 3.1 GB.“Particularly in Supersonic where there’s an enormous demand for data. People binging on games and so forth. That area requires a proper pricing framework.
Mupita said the more muted prepaid growth during both quarters was one of the key issues affecting their overall data revenue growth. “I think probably into Q4 we’ll see the effects of those prepaid data price supplements we’ve brought to market,” Mupita said.It has also rolled out its entire target of 900 new 5G sites in 2024, with more than four months remaining in the year.
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