The three leading mobile companies in Sierra Leone, Orange and Africell, have increased their data prices and reduced the bundle quantities
The three leading mobile companies in Sierra Leone, Orange, Qcell and Africell, have increased their data prices and reduced the bundle quantities. This comes after the mobile companies’ call for a tariff review over claims that they have not been profitable. The telecommunication regulatory body, NATCA, said in an interview with Radio Democracy that they agreed on a “minimal increase” for both companies, which seems to be a misuse of the word in the sense of what followed the body’s granting of the Mobile Network Operators’ proposals. Both companies have increased the data prices by over 100% – from NLe 15-35 – and reduced the quantity by nearly 20% – from 3 gigabytes to 2.5. An increase in tariff for voice calls also took place. There has been no notice on paper communicating this development to subscribers. The mobile companies however did explain it on a couple of radio and TV interviews to subscribers, with Africell’s head of Corporate Affairs, Joe Abass Bangura,...