The size of the government gift internet package was determined

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According to Iran digital economy annotation, After the 34% increase in the mobile internet tariff, the Ministry of Communications promised to provide a gift internet package from the government. The registration of this package started yesterday and its volume, according to the announcement of the Minister of Communications, is 10 gigabytes domestically equivalent to 5 gigabytes of international internet.

Last week, after the possibility of increasing the price of mobile internet became serious, the Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Eisa Zarepour, announced on the sidelines of the government board meeting, that if the tariff increase is agreed, the free internet package will be allocated to the people by the operators. At the end of the year, the cost should not be imposed on them and they can meet their usual needs.

There were many speculations about the size of this package and now its amount has been determined. He said about the details of the government’s internet package, the registration of which started yesterday evening:

“Activation of the free internet gift of the government to the people in the form of 10 GB of domestic internet (equivalent to five gigabytes of international internet) is done on one of the SIM cards of each person’s choice.”

Of course, he has not commented on the duration of this package, but according to the previous statements of the Minister of Communications, it will probably be until the end of the year. Of course, with this amount presented, it is not clear what the government’s opinion is about the usual use on the Internet; Although the operators claimed in their letter to the president not long ago that half of the people, including low-income group, have low monthly consumption of less than two gigabytes per month for mobile data services.

It should be noted that the cost of this gift package will be determined by the operators, as Zarepour had mentioned and Hamrahe Aval also mentioned this issue in Codal.