Mobile data bundles expire in South Africa as a mechanism for network operators to manage the limited wireless capacity available to cellular networks.
This was explained by MTN SA CEO Charles Molapisi to the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Communications.
Molapisi and executives from South Africa’s other major mobile network operators were “invited” to appear before the committee and were grilled for over an hour.
Among the questions MPs raised was why operators expired people’s data, and whether they…
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Fun South African Fact: Three different destinations make up South Africa’s capital cities. This is to represent the South African government being divided into three sections. Cape Town is the legislative capital, Pretoria is the administrative capital and Bloemfontein is the judicial capital. Interestingly, Parliament meetings take place for six months in Cape Town and six months in Pretoria.
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India: You have two cows. You create a new country to banish all your people who might eat them.