Original sentence: MTN sponsors the CAF Champions League football competition in Africa
Edited sentence: An SMS consumes about 1600 bits of bandwidth, on the GSM network, meaning that for the bandwidth consumed by a one minute off-peak call costing 90c, about 120 SMS's could be sent over the network (costing a regular pre-paid subscriber R102 (or more than 100 times the cost to the network).Antitrust activist group and Telkom.Confederation of African Football.High Telecomunications Costs Protest site.It is thus clear that SMS charges are excessive, made possible largely due to regulation in the country that does not provide for fair competition in the market.Leading this to be yet another example of a South African telecommunications provider, excessively exploiting it's customers meager monthly budgets unneccssarily, while posting ludicrous profits.MTN has, until very recently, charged 85c per SMS (And R1.70 for a delivery-confirmed SMS) to all it's customers who did not explicitly buy an SMS Bundle package of 100, 200 or 500 SMS's monthly.MTN sponsors CAF Champions League competition in Africa.Most US Mobile networks, however, offer SMS for free, as it was originally developed as a technicians' link testing tool.SMS (Text Messaging) is immensely popular in South Africa, due to the high rates of local calls.South African Football Association.Their much cheaper SMS bundles, are available to contract and pre-paid users.This is while a minute of talk time during off-peak hours cost about 90c per minute