{"id":158893,"date":"2016-03-30T14:57:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T12:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=158893"},"modified":"2016-03-30T14:58:36","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T12:58:36","slug":"why-afrihosts-mobile-service-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/158893-why-afrihosts-mobile-service-rocks.html","title":{"rendered":"Why Afrihost&#8217;s mobile service rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Afrihost launched its mobile voice products on 19 January, promising the \u201cbest contract-free data, SMS, and voice call rates\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Afrihost Mobile offers voice calls at 79c per minute, while out-of-bundle data rates are 10c per MB \u2013 well below the R1 per MB industry standard.<\/p>\n<p>While pricing is one of the biggest selling points of Afrihost\u2019s mobile products, they also offer many advantages over traditional mobile services.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the features of Afrihost\u2019s mobile products:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>No sign-up or activation fees<\/strong> \u2013 Afrihost charges for a RICA SIM delivery of R149, which can be avoided by collecting your SIM at the Afrihost office.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Month-to-month solution<\/strong> \u2013 Afrihost charges users monthly, and users can cancel at any time.<\/li>\n<li><strong>High data allocation<\/strong> \u2013 Afrihost\u2019s mobile packages have high data allocations. The Mobile S product, which is priced at R199, comes with 100 minutes and 2GB of data.<\/li>\n<li><strong>No bill shock<\/strong> \u2013 Afrihost\u2019s Auto-Limit feature will automatically top-up an account with data and airtime up to a predefined limit which clients can set.<\/li>\n<li><strong>ClientZone<\/strong> \u2013 ClientZone offers users control over their products, where they can administer any aspect of their service online.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mobile App<\/strong> \u2013 The mobile app is similar to\u00a0the ClientZone, available for iOS and Android devices.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Usage and call log<\/strong> \u2013 A usage and call log is available to Afrihost\u2019s mobile clients.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The images below show the\u00a0Afrihost Mobile App interface.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Afrihost-App.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-158895\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-158895\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Afrihost-App.jpg\" alt=\"Afrihost App\" width=\"640\" height=\"1696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Afrihost-App.jpg 650w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Afrihost-App-162x430.jpg 162w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Afrihost-App-640x1696.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Afrihost\u2019s mobile services<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/152299-new-afrihost-mobile-voice-products-launched.html\"><strong>New Afrihost Mobile voice products launched<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/145445-new-afrihost-mobile-voice-prices-unveiled.html\">New Afrihost mobile voice prices unveiled<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrihost\u2019s mobile service offers clients more than just aggressive pricing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":142206,"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":[1669,20917,35],"class_list":["post-158893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-afrihost","tag-afrihost-mobile","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158893"}],"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=158893"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159119,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158893\/revisions\/159119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}