{"id":116726,"date":"2015-01-13T09:59:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T07:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=116726"},"modified":"2015-01-13T17:43:32","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T15:43:32","slug":"r149-uncapped-mobile-data-sim-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/116726-r149-uncapped-mobile-data-sim-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"R149 uncapped mobile data SIM launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A company called <a title=\"Data Sim\" href=\"http:\/\/www.datasim.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>DATA SIM<\/strong><\/a> has launched a new SIM card, offering unlimited mobile data for R149 per month (also see: <a title=\"Beware R149 data SIM: MTN\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/116788-beware-r149-uncapped-data-sim-mtn.html\"><strong>Beware R149 uncapped data SIM: MTN<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The company said that the MTN-powered SIM card provides unlimited Internet browsing, social media usage, videos on Facebook, Skype video calling, file downloads, and WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are many blocked services. These include YouTube, porn sites, movie and music downloads, and malicious sites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe DATA SIM card is capable of offering you LTE 4G blazing-fast speed. We will not throttle the speeds at all,\u201d the DATA SIM website states.<\/p>\n<p>The service is offered on a month-to-month basis, without any contracts. \u201cOur service allows any user to subscribe and cancel at any time,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>The R149 SIM allows tethering, and can be ordered as a mini, micro, or nano SIM.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">What makes the R149 unlimited SIM possible<\/h3>\n<p>DATA SIM founder Saeed Moosa told MyBroadband that they are using an APN from MTN through which they offer the service.<\/p>\n<p>However, through a special agreement, they are only paying MTN for the SIM card and not for data. This, said Moosa, allows them to offer the aggressive price.<\/p>\n<p>Moosa said they are looking to offer the service long-term, and that new services are on the way.<\/p>\n<p>He said they are planning to launch a similar service through Telkom Mobile, which will include unlimited mobile data, R50 airtime, and 10GB Wi-Fi access for R149 per month.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on mobile data<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"MTN Data Share launching early 2015\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/116135-mtn-data-share-launching-early-2015.html\"><strong>MTN Data Share launching early 2015<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"New Cell C data prices released\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/116061-new-cell-c-data-prices-released.html\"><strong>New Cell C data prices released<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new company has launched MTN data SIM cards which offer unlimited data for R149 per month <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":116728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[28308,35,42,28310,689],"class_list":["post-116726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-data-sim","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-saeed-moosa","tag-telkom-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116726"}],"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=116726"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116730,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116726\/revisions\/116730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}