The debate over expiring mobile data has intensified after Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies questioned why South Africans should lose unused data they have already paid for. Image: Wikimedia CommonsThe debate over expiring mobile data has intensified after Parliament’s Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies questioned why South Africans should lose unused data they have already paid for. The new rules govern issues including data rollover, bundle depletion and the transfer of unused data and airtime. For consumers, the dispute centres on a simple question: should mobile data that has already been paid for ever expire? Do you think it’s fair that mobile data expires?