In a statement issued last week, the Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority (BOCRA) confirmed that it had approved BTC’s revised tariffs with immediate effect. The changes follow the implementation of recommendations from a pricing and costing study concluded in May 2025. The telecoms regulator said the revisions were consistent with its mandate to promote affordable communications services while safeguarding competition and transparency in the sector. Under the new structure, BTC has discontinued several older bundles and introduced refreshed offerings across daily, weekly and monthly categories. For short-term users, the operator has introduced one-day bundles priced at 100MB for P2, 300MB for P5 and 1.5GB for P10. A three-day 3GB bundle is now available at P25. Monthly options now include 4GB for P65 and 8GB for P99. Larger 30-day bundles have been restructured to 30GB for P199, 50GB for P269 and 100GB for P349, with higher-cost legacy packages withdrawn.
Meanwhile, BOCRA has also published a comparative schedule of data prices across the country’s three mobile network operators, BTC, Orange Botswana and Mascom , to enhance consumer awareness and facilitate informed choice. The latest revisions follow broader tariff adjustments across the market last year, when operators, including Orange and Mascom, reviewed their prepaid data pricing structures after the same cost study. The adjustments saw reductions in selected daily and headline prepaid bundles as part of an industry-wide alignment to cost-based pricing principles. For consumers, the reductions translate into more usable data for the same income at a time when households remain under financial strain. Mobile data has become central to daily transactions, from job applications and online banking to school communication and small business marketing. Lower bundle prices therefore stretch limited disposable incomes and reduce the need to ration connectivity.
