{"id":128380,"date":"2015-06-05T11:01:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T09:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=128380"},"modified":"2015-06-05T11:03:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T09:03:06","slug":"alwayson-wi-fi-calling-cheaper-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/128380-alwayson-wi-fi-calling-cheaper-than-expected.html","title":{"rendered":"AlwaysOn Wi-Fi calling: cheaper than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AlwaysOn announced that its Wi-Fi calling rate for calls to mobile phones and landlines are <strong>R30 per hour<\/strong>, and not R50 per hour as reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Wi-Fi provider announced earlier this week that it will launch Wi-Fi calling on 8 June 2015.<\/p>\n<p>To promote its new Wi-Fi calling, the company will have a launch promotion which offer 60 minutes of free talk time to any local cellular or landline service.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/128230-alwayson-launches-wi-fi-calling-at-r50-per-hour.html\">AlwaysOn previously said<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>calls will be free between all users of AlwaysOn Calling, but calls to local fixed-line and cellular providers will be charged at R50 per hour at per second rates.<\/p>\n<p>The company has now announced that this was a typo, and that the flat rate is actually R30 per hour.<\/p>\n<p>AlwaysOn also\u00a0provided technical details about the service. It said the service is integrated into the phone and \u201cusers don&#8217;t have to do anything\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>While it needs a smartphone app to run in the background, it is not an app-based service like Skype or WhatsApp.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on AlwaysOn<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/128132-wi-fi-voice-calling-in-south-africa-from-alwayson.html\">Wi-Fi voice calling in South Africa from AlwaysOn<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/66536-free-wi-fi-with-internet-solutions-uncapped-adsl.html\"><strong>Free Wi-Fi with Internet Solutions uncapped ADSL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/27985-alwayson-wi-fi-plans-for-mobile-devices-coming.html\"><strong>AlwaysOn Wi-Fi plans for mobile devices coming<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/52523-alwayson-launches-alwaysonsmart.html\"><strong>AlwaysOn launches AlwaysOnSmart<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AlwaysOn announced that its initial Wi-Fi calling price was wrong, and that people can expect to pay far less for the service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":72982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1779,35,25445],"class_list":["post-128380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-alwayson","tag-headline","tag-wi-fi-calling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128380"}],"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=128380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128404,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128380\/revisions\/128404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}