Safaricom Ethiopia has implemented significant price increases across its mobile data packages, with some weekly plans seeing effective rate hikes of up to 82%, as the company moves to rationalize pricing it previously warned was “unsustainable” and threatening the telecom sector’s long-term viability.
The revised tariffs, which took effect this week, show price increases on nearly all data bundles combined with reduced data allocations. A weekly 10GB package now costs 550 Birr, up from 350 Birr, a 57% price jump, while the monthly 15GB plan remains at 500 Birr but with data slashed from 15GB to 10GB, representing a 50% effective increase in per-unit cost.
The changes affect daily, weekly, monthly, and long-term plans. The popular daily 1GB package increased from 30 to 35 Birr while data allocation dropped from 1.1GB to 500MB, effectively doubling the per-gigabyte cost. Weekly packages saw some of the steepest hikes: the 5.5GB plan rose from 150 to 250 Birr (67% increase), and the 10GB package jumped from 250 to 550 Birr.
Monthly unlimited data now costs 2,400 Birr, up from 2,000 Birr (a 20% increase), while the half-yearly 500GB package increased from 7,000 to 8,500 Birr.
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