{"id":165590,"date":"2016-05-19T10:00:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T08:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=165590"},"modified":"2016-05-19T10:01:29","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T08:01:29","slug":"mtn-slashes-data-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/165590-mtn-slashes-data-prices.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN slashes data prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

MTN has cut its contract data prices, reducing subscription fees to below the levels they were before its price hike in May last year<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Following a battle with ICASA over termination rates, Cell C, MTN, and Vodacom increased their contract prices<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in 2015.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s price increases were unusual, even more so because existing contract subscribers saw their fees increase mid-contract.<\/p>\n

MTN\u2019s reduced prices on its My MTNChoice data packages are available to new and existing subscribers.<\/p>\n

The table below summarises the new contract data prices.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
MTNChoice data contracts<\/th>\nNew prices<\/th>\nMay 2015 prices<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
My MTNChoice 500MB<\/td>\nR39<\/strong><\/td>\nR55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
My MTNChoice 1GB<\/td>\nR79<\/strong><\/td>\nR85<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
My MTNChoice 2GB<\/td>\nR99<\/strong><\/td>\nR139<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
My MTNChoice 3GB<\/td>\nR169<\/strong><\/td>\nR209<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
My MTNChoice 5GB<\/td>\nR199<\/strong><\/td>\nR309<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
My MTNChoice 10GB<\/td>\nR299<\/strong><\/td>\nR519<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
My MTNChoice 20GB<\/td>\nR499<\/strong><\/td>\nR1,045<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n
Each package includes an allocation of Night Express data.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tfoot>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

More on mobile data in South Africa<\/h3>\n

MTN and Huawei test 1Gbps LTE-U service<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

New South African mobile data prices compared<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Massive MTN price hikes: how much more you will pay<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Cellular price hikes in South Africa: we were warned<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MTN has significantly reduced its contract data prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":141420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[12393,35,42,21711],"class_list":["post-165590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-data-contract","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-my-mtnchoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165590"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":165636,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165590\/revisions\/165636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}