South Africa user protest the cost too expensive, alerted Congressional hearings-South Africa-IT information

Beijing time on 21st-South Africa parliamentary Committee on September 20 and 21st for a two-day hearing is being held to discuss the country's problems of data flow rates are so high.

Quartz reported earlier, a local famous DJs on Twitter launched "data must be cut" (#DataMustFall) topic, attempt to discuss development of media for a campaign, has been very warm and a wide range of responses.

The DJ Molefe (Thabo Molefe) in our own Internet radio show, and told the audience that on Twitter, if South Africa is one everyone can listen to online radio, download books or streaming video of the country, that would be wonderful. With more and more attention to this subject, left-wing party of economic freedom fighter (English: Economic Freedom Fighters) came forward to have expressed strong support, the party advocated during the campaign to promote is one of free Wifi.

Molefe said on Twitter, I met with state regulators in South Africa independent communications authority (Independent Communications Authority of South Africa) in charge. Under broad support of the public, the DJ boldly asked the country's three largest mobile network gives a response within 30 days, these operators have so far made no public comments on request.

South Africa Internet users found that domestic firms, but also Africa's largest mobile operator, MTN, fee charged on the market in Nigeria is a lower mainland, it makes them feel angry. In the Nigerian market, monthly package fee of 1.5G about 21 Yuan, while in South Africa, 1G package price is equivalent to about 37 Yuan.

Netizens said data traffic charges directly affecting the people access to education, job skills training, financial assistance, job search, and many other benefits. Present situation must be changed.

南非网友抗议流量费太贵，惊动国会开听证会 - 南非 - IT资讯

北京时间21日讯 南非国会委员会9月20日和21日正在举行为期两天的听证会，以讨论这个国家的数据流量资费何以如此高昂的问题。

Quartz报道称，早些时候，当地一位著名的流行音乐节目主持人在推特上发起了“数据必须降价”（#DataMustFall）的话题，试图将媒体上的讨论发展为一场运动，得到了非常热烈而广泛的响应。

这位DJ莫莱费（Thabo Molefe）在自己的互联网广播节目中和推特上对听众们表示，如果南非是一个大家可以一边听着线上广播，一边下载书籍或者流媒体视频的国家，那该多么美好。伴随这一话题越来越受到关注，左翼政党经济自由战士（英语：Economic Freedom Fighters）出面对此表示了大力支持，该党在竞选中的主张之一就是大力推广免费Wifi。

莫莱费还在推特上介绍说，自己会见了国家监管机构南非独立通信局（Independent Communications Authority of South Africa）的负责人。在公众的广泛支持之下，这位DJ勇敢地要求该国三大移动网络在30天内给出答复，这些运营商迄今为止都没有对要求发表公开评论。

南非网友发现，本国公司，同时也是非洲最大移动运营商MTN，在尼日利亚市场上收取的费用都要低于本土，这让他们大感愤怒。在尼日利亚市场上，每月1.5G流量的套餐收费约合人民币21元，而在南非，1G的套餐的价格就折合人民币约37元。

网友们纷纷表示，数据流量资费的高低直接影响到人们接受教育、就业技能培训、金融帮助、寻找工作等诸多方面的利益。现状必须改变。