Radio host and businessman Tbo Touch says the time is up for mobile network providers and the second phase of the #DataMustFall movement has now begun.
Radio personality and businessman Tbo Touch, who has spearheaded the #DataMustFall campaign, announced on Tuesday that the 30 day grace period afforded to mobile networks is over.
The conversation was started on the 15 September when Touch announced on his TouchCentralFM show that he was giving Mobile operators 30 days to make a change or he would use his platform to mobilise a community, that would be moving to the network provider that did actually make a rate change.
Touch also announced and tweeted that the station would be going around universities and colleges to hand out free data bundles, attaching the #DataMustFall hashtag.
All Networks have 30days to make a change! We will all move our subscription to the network that cares about its customers #datamustfall
— Tbo Touch (@iamtbotouch) September 14, 2016
Touch and his business partner Gareth Cliff took their fight to parliament later in September where they pleaded with MPs to heed their call.
After a series of public hearing, which involved submissions from Touch as well as affected parties, mobile networks presented their case to the committee.
“Young people should be able to enjoy the benefits of e-learning by downloading textbooks online or catching up on a lecture on Youtube, but they can’t do that because everything revolves around data and wifi,” Touch said.
Apparently, all Mobile Networks have gone silent so Touch has announced that he would be evolving to his Plan B.
#DatamustFall committee meeting at 11am today!30 Days grace period to networks is over!Please join us in support of our Plan B! Stay tuned
— Tbo Touch (@iamtbotouch) October 18, 2016
News24 also spoke to the businessman about the #datamustfall campaign.
“There is less than 10 days left in the thirty days that telecommunications companies were given to decrease the cost of data in SA.”
“R149 for 1GB, it’s daylight robbery,” says Touch adding that R75 for 1GB of data seems more reasonable.
Touch says if he’s not able to make a positive announcement in terms of data prices falling by the 1 November, he will have to result to alternative means that he was not willing to talk about in this interview.
GoodThingsGuy have no idea what is actually going to happen in “plan B” but all we can say is we are all excited for data to become a little bit cheaper.
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