Everyone wears panties or mini-briefs inside their trousers or dresses, including the writer, Yours truly, but when one goes all the way to describe the colour, brand size one is wearing it really becomes unnecessary and to heavy for public consumption.
Last week the media was literally awash with Econet VS Gvt, the Minister of ICT, Postal and Courier Services Supa Mandiwanzira and the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of ZImbabwe (Potraz) to be more specific.
The mudslinging and blame game was just sickening, unnecessary and childish, and someone will have to stop this madness before it goes unwarranted. It proved both parties involved are willing to exchange words publicly so as on as the readers are willing to listen.
This is nothing but a mere diversion from the real facts on ground, which to date were left unchanged, unchallenged and the future is still clear on how data pricing and landing should be solved in Zimbabwe.
The nation gains nothing but seeing powerhouses exchanging their verbal arsenal while revenues continues to decline, operators can no longer pay for their loans and more importantly consumers are still struggling to keep up with tough economic challenges.
These are real issues which were not solved and are not going to be solved by the current squabbles going on. Ignoring them now will not wipe away these problems bit will only keep them and their effects longer, lingering upon our heads.
It is almost going to be impossible for the Telecommunication Association of Zimbabwe (TOAZ) , to engage the government again on the tariffs and their serious negative bank balances running after investing in connectivity infrastructure.
While Econet became an unfortunate sacrificial lamb, Zimbabweans should also be reminded that other operators and and the regulator Potraz through the ministry of ICT as well had approved these crazy process to the new status quo.
Charging a minimum of 50mb per dollar is what we are supposed to be looking into as the de-facto rates which should scare you as the subscriber and worry you as the government with telcos needing a better plan for viability.
All the operators cannot really function with the current data rates, and we force these upon them then slowly like a cancer we are destroying the same progress we are celebrating because soon or later it will collapse.
How long should promos run, how can they be designed to be profitable and where do we separate the line between a promotion and a tariff.
Should we have the regulator setting floor prices for a promotional or only for actual data, if at all we need mature and and professional business players to have floor prices to operate.
It sounds senseless for all players to run loss making promotions only to ask the government to intervene so they become profitable. This is a business, every business should create system that makes them profitable without needing any regulation to help get their act together.
All this politicking and finger pointing should stop and we should focus on solving the problem and logic that brought us to this position in the first place.
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