{"id":1177,"date":"2007-09-01T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-09-01T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-01T15:58:00","slug":"mtn-drops-data-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/1177-mtn-drops-data-prices.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN drops data prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has reduced the price of both its data bundles and data contracts, matching the prices announced by Vodacom earlier this year. <\/p>\n<p>MTN&rsquo;s 2 GB data bundle will now cost R 389-00, down from the usual R 399-00 special offer. Their 1 GB bundle is priced at R 289-00 while their 500 MB bundle will now cost R 189-00.<\/p>\n<p>MTN&rsquo;s 2 GB data contract &ndash; which comes with a new HSDPA modem &ndash; will now cost R 449-00 per month. The 1 GB option is priced at R 349-00 while the 500 MB contract costs R 249-00 per month.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year MTN announced a 20% reduction in their data costs as well as a &lsquo;buy one GB get one free&rsquo; special offer. Vodacom retaliated a few weeks later with a massive data bundle price cut, amounting to a price cut of up to 62%.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtn.co.za\/?pid=327485\" target=\"_blank\">latest data rates<\/a> announced by MTN &ndash; which is on par with Vodacom&rsquo;s current pricing &#8211; may send a message to Vodacom that the company is not interested in a price war.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C&rsquo;s data rates have not seen any drastic reductions, with its 1 GB offering being priced at R 499-00. Its 500 MB package costs R 350-00 while its 200 MB offer retails for R 175-00 a month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=86018\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has dropped the price of its data bundles and data contracts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}