{"id":154034,"date":"2016-02-04T12:58:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T10:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=154034"},"modified":"2016-02-04T13:00:11","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T11:00:11","slug":"how-much-vodacom-subscribers-really-pay-for-a-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/154034-how-much-vodacom-subscribers-really-pay-for-a-call.html","title":{"rendered":"How much Vodacom subscribers really pay for a call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom has released its quarterly update for the period ending December 2015, which showed that the effective price for voice calls on its network is 53c per minute. This is down from 63 cents a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom previously explained that lower contract voice rates are achieved by moving subscribers to new plans.<\/p>\n<p>On the prepaid side, Vodacom is selling more bundles, which saw the effective price per minute for prepaid calls drop to 36c per minute.<\/p>\n<p>The graph below shows the effective Vodacom blended call rate over the last two years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Vodacom-price-per-minute.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-154036\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-154036\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Vodacom-price-per-minute.jpg\" alt=\"Vodacom price per minute\" width=\"640\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Vodacom-price-per-minute.jpg 831w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Vodacom-price-per-minute-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Vodacom-price-per-minute-640x384.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Vodacom<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/153896-vodacoms-broadband-network-covers-nearly-all-south-africans.html\">Vodacom\u2019s broadband network covers nearly all South Africans<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/153892-massive-increase-in-vodacom-data-traffic.html\">Massive increase in Vodacom data traffic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/153075-vodacom-nailed-over-its-4glte-coverage-claim.html\">Vodacom nailed over its 4G\/LTE coverage claim<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom has revealed the effective price for voice calls on its network, which shows what the true price of a call is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":98094,"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":[1611,35,41],"class_list":["post-154034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-call-rates","tag-headline","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154034"}],"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=154034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154048,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154034\/revisions\/154048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}