Mobile data consumption in order of earliest expiry and compulsory mobile data rollovers up to three months after a bundle’s activation are among the new rules being proposed for South Africa’s cellular networks.
Icasa committee chairperson Charley Lewis said the authority believed these revised regulations now struck the “appropriate regulatory balance”. This proposal came about after stakeholders’ comments on the previous amendments pointed out that the first-in, first-out data consumption principle was not always beneficial for customers.
However, the rules propose that 50% of unused mobile data on medium-term bundles must roll over to the following equivalent validity period.Therefore, a 10GB monthly data bundle with 5GB left by its expiration date should have at least 2.5GB carried over to the next month.For long-term bundles, only 25% of unused data must be rolled over to the equivalent validity period, at least twice.
In addition, the transfer of bundles must not be limited to specific service types, except for uncapped, free or promotional bundles, and applies to any SIM card or device on the same network, including SIM cards or devices owned by the same consumer.
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