{"id":177219,"date":"2016-08-25T16:22:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T14:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=177219"},"modified":"2016-08-25T16:24:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T14:24:33","slug":"mtn-airtime-advance-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/177219-mtn-airtime-advance-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN airtime advance launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has launched\u00a0Xtra Time, which lets prepaid and top-up subscribers\u00a0receive an airtime advance when their balance\u00a0runs low.<\/p>\n<p>The credit can be used like a recharge to make voice calls, buy\u00a0data or SMS bundles, access value added services, or\u00a0transfer airtime.<\/p>\n<p>Airtime that was advanced\u00a0is recovered when the customer tops up their account, with the credit owed debited from the airtime bought.<\/p>\n<p>MTN subscribers can use MTN&#8217;s web portal, or dial the USSD short code *141*2#, to access the service.<\/p>\n<p>MTN&#8217;s systems will credit score\u00a0you\u00a0to ascertain\u00a0your\u00a0eligibility.<\/p>\n<p>Customers with unsettled advances are barred from using the service until their previous advance is fully repaid.<\/p>\n<p>Where airtime credit is outstanding, the customer is advised of their debt and requested to settle their advance.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More\u00a0MTN news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/176883-mtn-zakhele-futhi-shares-everything-you-need-to-know.html\"><strong>MTN Zakhele Futhi shares: everything you need to know<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/176113-extremely-high-chance-of-mtn-strike-union.html\"><strong>Extremely-high chance of MTN strike: Union<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/175203-how-mtn-plans-to-make-its-customers-happy.html\"><strong>How MTN plans to make its customers happy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/175443-mtn-to-outsource-call-centres.html\"><strong>MTN to outsource call centres<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/175217-mtn-paid-r6-36-million-per-day-for-professional-services.html\"><strong>MTN paid R6.36 million per day for \u201cprofessional services\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has launched an airtime advance feature called MTN Xtra Time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":141420,"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":[36,13259,42,38683],"class_list":["post-177219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-active","tag-airtime-advance","tag-mtn","tag-mtn-xtra-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177219"}],"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=177219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177223,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177219\/revisions\/177223"}],"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=177219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}