{"id":129264,"date":"2015-06-15T08:58:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T06:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=129264"},"modified":"2015-06-15T08:59:46","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T06:59:46","slug":"afrihost-mobile-data-on-prepaid-mtn-sims-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/129264-afrihost-mobile-data-on-prepaid-mtn-sims-explained.html","title":{"rendered":"Afrihost mobile data on prepaid MTN SIMs explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people have reported that Axxess and Afrihost APN options for mobile data work on MTN prepaid SIM cards. However, Afrihost said it is not officially offering the service.<\/p>\n<p>Afrihost CEO Gian Visser said their APN (Access Point Name) continues to work on MTN Contract SIMs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince we launched Afrihost Mobile data, MTN and Afrihost have been working on trying to enable Afrihost mobile data on MTN prepaid SIMs,\u201d said Visser.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHowever, it has proved challenging. We are currently still busy testing various systems and are in Beta &#8211; and as such we are not officially offering this service,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Visser added that he does not know when they will launch\u00a0and officially support the service.<\/p>\n<p>Axxess was asked for comment, but the company did not respond by the time of publication.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Afrihost<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/126640-new-afrihost-app-launched.html\">New Afrihost App launched<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/industrynews\/124822-afrihost-fixed-mobile-lte-launched.html\">Afrihost fixed mobile LTE launched<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/122140-free-afrihost-adsl-data-fight.html\">Free Afrihost ADSL data fight<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrihost CEO Gian Visser explains their plans related to offering mobile data on MTN prepaid SIMs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":83043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1669,1765,1988,35,42],"class_list":["post-129264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-afrihost","tag-axxess","tag-gian-visser","tag-headline","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129264"}],"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=129264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129282,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129264\/revisions\/129282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}