{"id":170559,"date":"2016-07-02T09:50:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T07:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=170559"},"modified":"2016-07-02T15:05:57","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T13:05:57","slug":"mtn-increases-prepaid-call-rate-from-79c-to-r1-50-per-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/170559-mtn-increases-prepaid-call-rate-from-79c-to-r1-50-per-minute.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN increases default prepaid call rate from 79c to R1.50 per minute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has introduced a new default plan for MTN PayAsYouGo users called MTN Base, with a call rate of R1.50 per minute.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, when you join MTN you\u2019ll automatically be on the MTN Base price plan,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat means you\u2019ll enjoy a flat rate for data and for on-net calls [R1.50] with per second billing. It\u2019s simple, affordable, and lets you stay in touch conveniently.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MTN Base replaces MTN Pay Per Second as the default plan for MTN PayAsYouGo users.<\/p>\n<p>MTN Pay Per Second offers far better value for money, with a call rate of 79c per minute\u00a0and a standard data rate of 99c per MB.<\/p>\n<p>MTN told MyBroadband that it has reviewed its current pricing and package structures to \u201censure that its propositions remain relevant and competitive in the market\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pricing review affects MTN&#8217;s base price plan for new customers i.e. changed to R1.50,\u201d MTN said.<\/p>\n<p>Good news is that\u00a0MTN&#8217;s new customers can still migrate to Pay per Second tariff plan, while existing MTN PayAsYouGo customers can select to migrate to the MTN Base price plan.<\/p>\n<p>The table below compares the\u00a0MTN Base prices against MTN Pay Per Second&#8217;s rates.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mybb_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"7\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"3\" bgcolor=\"#FFCC00\"><strong>MTN PayAsYouGo Prices<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>Service<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>MTN Pay Per Second (Old\u00a0Default Plan)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\"><strong>MTN Base (New Default Plan)<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Call Rate (all Networks)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>R0.79<\/td>\n<td>R1.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Standard Data Rate<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>R0.99<\/td>\n<td>R1.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>SMS<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>R0.50<\/td>\n<td>R0.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on MTN<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/170551-massive-mtn-price-hikes.html\"><strong>Massive MTN price hikes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/170497-mtn-lays-off-63-temporary-staff.html\"><strong>MTN lays off 63 temporary staff<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/170467-mtn-sa-ceo-gets-r5-2-million-in-shares.html\"><strong>MTN SA CEO gets R5.2 million in shares<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has introduced a new default plan for MTN PayAsYouGo users, which sees the call rate increase from 79c to R1.50 per minute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":146213,"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":[35,42,37901,23741,37899],"class_list":["post-170559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-mtn-base","tag-mtn-pay-per-second","tag-mtn-payasyougo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170559"}],"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=170559"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":170563,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170559\/revisions\/170563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}