{"id":136706,"date":"2015-08-28T10:24:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T08:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=136706"},"modified":"2015-08-28T10:26:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T08:26:43","slug":"pay-for-android-apps-with-telkom-airtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/136706-pay-for-android-apps-with-telkom-airtime.html","title":{"rendered":"Pay for Android apps with Telkom airtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has integrated carrier billing for the Google Play store on Android smartphones and tablets.<\/p>\n<p>Direct carrier billing is made possible through the integration of Telkom\u2019s event billing service with the Bango Payments Platform, and lets Android smart device users pay for applications and content using Telkom airtime.<\/p>\n<p>You can also make in-app purchases without interruption to the app experience.<\/p>\n<p>To make secure purchases and payments, Telkom said subscribers must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Have a Telkom mobile SIM card in an Android device that is connected to Telkom\u2019s mobile network.<\/li>\n<li>Open the Google Play Store, choose a book, app, or game to buy, and select Enable Telkom Billing as a payment method.<\/li>\n<li>Confirm that this is the app, book, or game that you want to buy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Telkom said there is a double opt-in process, so customers are aware that they are purchasing an app or a game and will be billed for it.<\/p>\n<p>Details of each transaction will be itemised on customers\u2019 invoices.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More Telkom news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/136628-new-telkom-internet-starter-packs-unveiled.html\"><strong>New Telkom Internet starter packs unveiled<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/136608-massive-telkom-wireless-broadband-price-cuts.html\"><strong>Massive Telkom wireless broadband price cuts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/136132-new-telkom-mobile-timed-data-bundles-launched.html\"><strong>New Telkom Mobile timed data bundles launched<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/136128-telkom-launches-new-very-cheap-adsl-service.html\"><strong>Telkom launches new, very cheap ADSL service<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/135986-here-is-who-will-leave-telkom-soon.html\"><strong>Here is who will leave Telkom soon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has launched direct carrier billing for Google Play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":129914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17934],"tags":[36,6735,397,32502,167,10100,32500,109],"class_list":["post-136706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","category-smartphones","tag-active","tag-airtime-purchases","tag-android","tag-direct-carrier-billing","tag-google","tag-google-play","tag-integrated-carrier-billing","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136706"}],"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=136706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136710,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136706\/revisions\/136710"}],"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=136706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}