{"id":114425,"date":"2014-11-18T15:22:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-18T13:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=114425"},"modified":"2014-11-18T17:11:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-18T15:11:27","slug":"mtn-sky-contract-prices-slashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/114425-mtn-sky-contract-prices-slashed.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN Sky contract prices slashed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN South Africa announced in a press release on Tuesday, 18 November 2014 that it has reduced the prices on its Sky contract packages, with the SIM-only fee going from R1,499 to R1,299.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on the smartphone selected, MTN said that subscribers can get an all-inclusive deal for R1,599 per month. Previously this would have cost R1,799 per month, MTN said.<\/p>\n<p>These price cuts are a promotion which has been running since 14 November 2014 and will continue until 31 January 2015, MTN said.<\/p>\n<p>The MTN Sky contract package includes unlimited local voice calls, local SMS messages, and data (with a 5GB fair use policy).<\/p>\n<p>When a subscriber hits the 5GB per month fair use limit, MTN said the user is not capped, but their speeds are throttled.<\/p>\n<p>MTN Sky also includes priority call centre support, free smartphone repairs, and 24 visits to international and local Bidvest airport lounges.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More unlimited contract articles<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/99782-unlimited-plans-vodacom-vs-mtn-vs-cell-c-vs-telkom-mobile.html\"><strong>Unlimited plans: Vodacom vs MTN vs Cell C vs Telkom Mobile<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/99622-mtn-sky-unlimited-calls-data-sms.html\"><strong>MTN Sky \u2013 unlimited calls, data, SMS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/114055-tell-mtn-what-you-think-of-them.html\"><strong>Tell MTN what you think of them<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/113951-you-must-pay-for-premium-whatsapp-skype-services-mtn.html\"><strong>You must pay for premium WhatsApp, Skype services: MTN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The contract prices of MTN\u2019s Sky packages have been cut across the board, the operator said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":99628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[35,42,24334],"class_list":["post-114425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-mtn-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}