The upcoming hard fork of ethereum coin will eventually brings the price up because of the new development, features and innovation of new technology applied on its platform. This update would surely strengthen and improve the lower transaction fees by the network which users and crypto traders relied on.
This is a good competition now, since other network tried to emerge with other new projects that has been starting implement new future ways in improving their service. Transaction fees is the most common concerns that erc20 network have been facing for so long, so I am looking forward that lower transaction fee and network failures will be fixed after this. I will just have to observe when everything will be fully applied to its platform, we can't expect too much while plans is there, and let's see what's coming next.