This past weekend Econet send out a warning to its customers that they were about to review their data and SMS bundle prices. Well, you should have taken that message to seriously prepare yourself because yesterday they did just that- now you can expect to fork out as much as $230 to purchase their bundles.

Econet Daily data bundles from 23 September

DataOld Price ZWLValidity
40MB$41 Day
180MB$91 Day
400MB$121 Day
800MB$181 Day
1500GB$301 Day

Econet Weekly data bundles from 23 September

DataCost ZWLValidity
25MB$2.507 days
60MB$67 days
160MB$147 days
350MB$287 days
700MB$557 days

Econet Monthly data bundles from 23 September

DataCost ZWLValidity
270MB$2830 days
700MB$7030 days
1150MB$11030 days
2100MB$18030 days
3100MB$23030 days

The last time Econet reviewed these prices was back on the 29th of August. So prices were doubled in less than a month!