Foreigners Are Getting Fleeced With ‘Extraordinary’ Data Roaming Charges In SA

Visitors to South Africa are seemingly getting fleeced after it was revealed that they pay extraordinary data rates when roaming on the country’s networks — with one carrier charging them as much as R281,290 per GB. Roaming charges occur when a person uses their mobile phone or SIM card outside of their native network. Even the cheap rates in South Africa seem to be over ten times more than local costs.

The "roam like at home" initiative, signed by the Southern African Development Community in 2007, hoped to address this issue, and in 2018 Cell C declared that it has "lowered the cost to foreign operators for international incoming data roaming by 89%, while the cost to Cell C from foreign operators has decreased by 49% over the same period.

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