Own Correspondent

Econet Wireless, the country’s biggest mobile phone service provider is set to review its prices for data and sms services as from Wednesday.

The company made an announcement to its customers on Tuesday morning. As is the norm with the company, whenever they issue warnings to review tariffs it will be upwards and the same is expected again this time.

Econet more than doubled its charges at the end of April attracting heavy criticism from its customers with a good number migrating to the cheaper government run Netone.

The company announced in March that it was aiming at maintaining its charges in line with the United States Dollar rate to the Zimbabwean Dollar.

The local currency has been dropping on a daily basis against the US Dollar reaching a high of US$1 to ZWL$80 in the parallel market a week ago.

Below is the message sent out by Econet.

Dear Customer. Please take note, bundle prices for Data & SMS will be reviewed effective 17 June 2020. Dial *143# to buy Data or *140# to buy SMS Bundles.