Regulator to Help Tanzanians Track Mobile Data Use

Tanzania’s communications regulator is developing a software application to help mobile internet users monitor and keep track of their data usage.

The move follows “grievances from Tanzanians who have been complaining that their data bundles keep running out within a short period of time.”

The app by Tanzania’s Communications Regulatory Authority, TCRA, will be ready by end of March, said Emmanuel Manase, TCRA’s director of industrial affairs.

He also directed all mobile operators to ‘develop their own software tools’ to help customers monitor data bundle usage as a way of reducing public complaints.

BBC/Christopher Ojilere