{"id":158369,"date":"2016-03-11T18:47:22","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:47:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=158369"},"modified":"2016-03-11T18:48:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-11T16:48:58","slug":"mtn-increases-international-call-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/158369-mtn-increases-international-call-prices.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN increases international call prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has increased its international calling prices, with some rates climbing as much as 57%. This is according to a report by <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itweb.co.za\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=150646:MTN-quietly-ups-international-call-tariffs&amp;catid=190\" target=\"_blank\">ITWeb<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtn.co.za\/everyday_services\/RoamingInternational\/Pages\/MakingInternationalCalls.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">MTN&#8217;s\u00a0international rates<\/a><\/strong> went up on 5 March, and that MTN clients were not informed of the increases.<\/p>\n<p>MTN reportedly confirmed the increases, but did not provide detailed feedback on why customers were not directly informed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MTN reassesses its retail international calling rates from time to time,&#8221;\u00a0said MTN in the report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A variety of factors are taken into consideration, such as any increases in the termination costs imposed on MTN&#8230; as well as external factors such as the recent decline in foreign currency exchange rates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>MTN was asked for a current and pre-increase pricing breakdown, but did not reply by the time of publication.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on MTN<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/158347-armed-gang-robs-upmarket-mtn-store.html\">Armed gang robs upmarket MTN store<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/158053-samsung-galaxy-s7-launched-in-sa-vodacom-and-mtn-contract-prices-compared.html\">Samsung Galaxy S7 launched in SA \u2013 Vodacom and MTN contract prices compared<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has increased its international calling prices, with some rates climbing as much as 57%, according to a report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152615,"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":[36,21371,42],"class_list":["post-158369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-active","tag-international-call-rates","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158369"}],"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=158369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158371,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158369\/revisions\/158371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}