Demand for data soars amid Covid-19 - MTN
By Given Majola
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JOHANNESBURG - MTNâS customers were increasingly depleting their Anytime data (day-time data) before their next allocation amid Covid-19, with data usage almost doubling last year, according to the mobile operator.
MTN spokesperson Mthokozisi Ndlovu said in an interview yesterday that consumption of Anytime data continued to soar, because many people were working from home.
âMTN SAâs total data traffic has almost doubled from 2019 and, by using the temporary spectrum, we have been able to significantly increase the number of South Africans using data through our partnership with government and public benefit organisations. We have zero-rated more than 1 000 health and education websites, which are currently serving more than four million people each month, and in the past year we dropped the effective price of data by more than 30 percent,â said Ndlovu.