{"id":181782,"date":"2016-10-06T17:02:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T15:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=181782"},"modified":"2016-10-06T17:06:04","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T15:06:04","slug":"mtn-launches-new-sky-and-talk-packages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/181782-mtn-launches-new-sky-and-talk-packages.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN launches new Sky and Talk packages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has unveiled two new sets of packages under the MTN Sky and\u00a0My MTNChoice+ Talk banners.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0Tariffic, the move by MTN is aimed at competing against similar offerings from Vodacom, Cell C, and Telkom.<\/p>\n<p>The Sky packages come in three versions, each with a different amount of inclusive data and minutes, and play in the &#8220;unlimited&#8221; contract space.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sky Lite<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a03GB pm \/ 120 minutes per day<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sky Medium<\/strong> &#8211; 15GB pm \/ 150 minutes per day<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sky Max<\/strong> &#8211; 25GB pm \/ 250 minutes per day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shown below is the\u00a0included value of\u00a0the Sky packages.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">MTN Sky Packages<\/h3>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tariffic-MTN-Sky-Packages.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-181784 size-new-size\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tariffic-MTN-Sky-Packages-640x400.png\" alt=\"tariffic-mtn-sky-packages\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tariffic-MTN-Sky-Packages-640x400.png 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tariffic-MTN-Sky-Packages-768x480.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">MTNChoice+ Talk Packages<\/h3>\n<p>MTN also released three new variants of its\u00a0MTNChoice+ packages:\u00a0Talk S,\u00a0Talk M, and\u00a0Talk L.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These packages are comparable to the regular My MTNChoice+ packages, however the new Talk packages come with more voice minutes, less data, and are cheaper,&#8221; said\u00a0Tariffic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MTN\u2019s packages are hardly revolutionary, and although they will benefit customers whose specific usage will necessitate these exact packages, they are not shifting the market forward in any meaningful way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The new talk packages are detailed below.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tariffic-MTNs-Talk-Packages.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-181786 size-new-size\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tariffic-MTNs-Talk-Packages-640x350.png\" alt=\"tariffic-mtns-talk-packages\" width=\"640\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tariffic-MTNs-Talk-Packages-640x350.png 640w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tariffic-MTNs-Talk-Packages-768x420.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on MTN<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/181752-vodacom-mtn-cell-c-and-telkom-fail-network-quality-tests.html\">Vodacom, MTN, Cell C, and Telkom fail network quality tests<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/180936-vodacom-and-mtn-will-definitely-try-to-squeeze-us-out-wbs.html\">Vodacom and MTN will definitely try to squeeze us out: WBS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has unveiled two new sets of packages under the MTN Sky and My MTNChoice+ Talk banners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152615,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[35,42,22043],"class_list":["post-181782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-tariffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181782"}],"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=181782"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181788,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181782\/revisions\/181788"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}