According to Zarepour, if the internet tariff is increased, packages will be given to people as gifts to meet their usual needs by the end of the year
According to Iran digital economy annotation, The Minister of Communications emphasized that they do not accept the request of the operators to increase the Internet by 100%. According to him, if a decision is made to increase the price, this growth will be up to the annual inflation limit.
Eisa Zarepour, the Minister of Communications and Information Technology, on the sidelines of today’s meeting of the government board, referring to the letter of the operators to the president to increase the mobile internet tariff, said: “We will not accept the request for a 100% increase in any way, and in the current conditions of the country, such a thing is not possible. It is not acceptable.”
According to Zarepour, the Ministry of Communications has notified the operators of conditions to increase the quality of the network at a certain time, and if they accept them, they will decide on their request:
“Of course, the decision will be based on the inflation that exists in the country. We did not accept many of their (operators) arguments. About the expenses they said, although tariffs have not been touched in these years since 2016, we had increases in the field of manpower, equipment and currency prices. In the meetings that the regulatory organization had with the operators, we set conditions for the increase in front of the operators, and we depended on them to improve the quality of the network in a tangible way. “We are not looking for the operator’s profit, we are looking for the quality of the network. We announced the conditions that if they do to increase the quality of the network within a certain period of time, we will decide on their request.”
He also promised that if the internet tariff is increased, he will probably get packages as gifts from operators for people to meet their reasonable needs by the end of the year.
Of course, Zarepour emphasizes that tariff increases do not occur outside the framework of the law, because according to the 2017 resolution, a floor and a ceiling have been set for the Internet tariff, and if a decision is made, new packages will be defined between this ceiling and the floor. Needless to say, according to the law, the price of each gigabyte of free mobile internet for permanent SIM cards can be priced up to 41 thousand and for credit SIM card up to 62 thousand tomans.
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