{"id":132794,"date":"2015-07-22T11:15:57","date_gmt":"2015-07-22T09:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=132794"},"modified":"2015-07-22T11:18:18","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T09:18:18","slug":"new-telkom-smartphone-package-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/132794-new-telkom-smartphone-package-prices.html","title":{"rendered":"New Telkom smartphone package prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has launched\u00a0four new smartphone plans, which the company said will offer customers three-times the value of the plan they purchase.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement follows the recent introduction of Telkom\u2019s new range of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/130440-new-telkom-voice-bundles-pricing.html\">mobile voice bundles<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As an example, Telkom said the SmartPhone Basic package\u00a0costs\u00a0R50 and customers receive 150MB of data, 150 SMSs, and 150 voice minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The voice minutes are made up of 50 minutes for Telkom mobile calls, another 50 minutes for Telkom fixed-line calls, and the remaining 50 minutes for all-network use.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom said subscribers are able to top up the service they use most often, rather than going out of bundle or buying more expensive \u201call network\u201d minutes.<\/p>\n<p>These new SIM-only deals are available immediately, said Telkom.<\/p>\n<p>The table below summarises Telkom\u2019s new SmartPhone plans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mybb_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" style=\"width: 100%;\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<thead>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #06518a; font-weight: bold; color: #fff; text-align: left;\">\n<td>Package<\/td>\n<td>Price<\/td>\n<td>All Network Minutes<\/td>\n<td>Telkom Mobile Minutes<\/td>\n<td>Telkom Fixed-Line Minutes<\/td>\n<td>SMS<\/td>\n<td>Data (MB)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>SmartPhone Basic<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>R50<\/td>\n<td>50<\/td>\n<td>50<\/td>\n<td>50<\/td>\n<td>150<\/td>\n<td>150<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>SmartPhone Essential<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>R100<\/td>\n<td>100<\/td>\n<td>100<\/td>\n<td>100<\/td>\n<td>300<\/td>\n<td>300<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>SmartPhone Advanced<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>R200<\/td>\n<td>200<\/td>\n<td>200<\/td>\n<td>200<\/td>\n<td>600<\/td>\n<td>600<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>SmartPhone Premium<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>R300<\/td>\n<td>300<\/td>\n<td>300<\/td>\n<td>300<\/td>\n<td>900<\/td>\n<td>900<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More Telkom mobile news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/132348-telkoms-fight-against-the-vodacom-neotel-deal.html\"><strong>Telkom\u2019s fight against the Vodacom-Neotel deal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/131934-how-telkom-plans-to-turn-the-company-around.html\"><strong>How Telkom plans to turn the company around<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/131644-how-to-avoid-calling-the-telkom-call-centre.html\"><strong>How to avoid calling the Telkom call centre<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/129882-new-telkom-mobile-prepaid-data-vs-vodacom-mtn-cell-c.html\"><strong>New Telkom mobile prepaid data vs Vodacom, MTN, Cell C<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/129874-new-telkom-mobile-voice-bundles-launched.html\"><strong>New Telkom mobile voice bundles launched<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has announced a new set of smartphone packages for it mobile subscribers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":129914,"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":[35,109,31698],"class_list":["post-132794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-telkom","tag-telkom-smartphone-plans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132794"}],"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=132794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132796,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132794\/revisions\/132796"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}