{"id":16399,"date":"2010-11-07T12:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-07T12:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T10:06:00","slug":"8ta-s-first-contract-offerings-aggressive-pricing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/16399-8ta-s-first-contract-offerings-aggressive-pricing.html","title":{"rendered":"8ta\u2019s first contract offerings: Aggressive pricing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Telkom launched its much anticipated mobile operator 8ta<\/a> last month, promising to disrupt the local mobile market with aggressive pricing and easy-to-understand offerings.<\/p>\n

At launch 8ta only offered prepaid services – one voice offering and one data service.  At the time 8ta promised customers 2 pre-paid, 4 post-paid and 3 data offerings, and the first post-paid services have now emerged.<\/p>\n

8ta started promoting the following contract offerings in the media:
<\/strong><\/p>\n

R90 per month over 24 months with the following included<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Samsung Galaxy 550 phone<\/li>\n
  2. 90 inclusive minutes to all 8ta and national landlines<\/li>\n
  3. 15 minutes to other mobile phones and local networks<\/li>\n
  4. 25MB of monthly data<\/li>\n
  5. Free SIM and connection<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    R130 per month over 24 months with the following included<\/strong><\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Nokia E5 and Nokia 5030 phones<\/li>\n
    2. 130 inclusive minutes to all 8ta and national landlines<\/li>\n
    3. 30 minutes to other mobile phones and local networks<\/li>\n
    4. 25MB of monthly data<\/li>\n
    5. Free SIM and connection<\/li>\n
    6. Free 8ta starter pack and R10 8ta airtime voucher<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      R230 per month over 24 months with the following included<\/strong><\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Motorola FLIPOUT and Samsung Champ phones<\/li>\n
      2. 230 inclusive minutes to all 8ta and national landlines<\/li>\n
      3. 60 minutes to other mobile phones and local networks<\/li>\n
      4. 25MB of monthly data<\/li>\n
      5. Free SIM and connection<\/li>\n
      6. Free 8ta starter pack and R100 8ta airtime voucher<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        R500 per month over 24 months with the following included<\/strong><\/p>\n

          \n
        1. Nokia N8 and Nokia 2710n phones<\/li>\n
        2. 500 inclusive minutes to all 8ta and national landlines<\/li>\n
        3. 200 minutes to other mobile phones and local networks<\/li>\n
        4. 50MB of monthly data<\/li>\n
        5. Free SIM and connection<\/li>\n
        6. Free 8ta starter pack and R50 8ta airtime voucher<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          All contract subscribers will – like their prepaid counterparts – get 50 free daily SMSs after sending 5 SMSs each day.<\/p>\n

          To reward early adopters 8ta is further offering the first 100,000 8ta contract subscribers the option to nominate a Telkom landline number to which they can make unlimited free calls for two years.<\/p>\n

          8ta’s contract offerings<\/strong><\/a> << Give your views about these offerings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          8ta today launched its first contract offerings with a special offer for the first 100,000 customers who sign up with them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}