BTC reduces data prices following regulator approval

Meanwhile, BOCRA has also published a comparative schedule of data prices across the country’s three mobile network operators, BTC, Orange Botswana and Mascom , to enhance consumer awareness and facilitate informed choice. The latest revisions follow broader tariff adjustments across the market last year, when operators, including Orange and Mascom, reviewed their prepaid data pricing structures after the same cost study. The adjustments saw reductions in selected daily and headline prepaid bundles as part of an industry-wide alignment to cost-based pricing principles.

For consumers, the reductions translate into more usable data for the same income at a time when households remain under financial strain. Mobile data has become central to daily transactions, from job applications and online banking to school communication and small business marketing. Lower bundle prices therefore stretch limited disposable incomes and reduce the need to ration connectivity.

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