{"id":2245,"date":"2007-12-15T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-14T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-12-15T00:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-14T22:50:00","slug":"telkom-takes-aim-at-gamers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/2245-telkom-takes-aim-at-gamers.html","title":{"rendered":"Telkom takes aim at gamers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom is offering consumers an XBox 360 Gaming Console, 2 x XBox 360 Wireless Controllers, 256 MB Memory unit for game saves and 5 free arcade games at either R108.75 per month or R3007.99 once off. <\/p>\n<p>The 5 free arcade games are Uno, Pac-Man Championship Edition, Boom Boom Rocket, Feeding Frenzy, and Luxor 2.<\/p>\n<p>The first 600 customers will also receive a video phone worth R699.00 free with their XBox 260.<\/p>\n<p>This new special is set to start on Monday, and through this Telkom seems to be spreading its wings further into the entertainment space. <\/p>\n<p>Telkom has already made its intentions clear regarding becoming a converged services provider through Telkom Media, and this latest gaming focus further confirms that they are exploring additional revenue streams.<\/p>\n<p>According to feedback from a MyADSL forum member who visited one of the Telkom branches the XBox&rsquo;s are selling like sweetcakes even though the deal is officially only set for launch on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=97756\">Comments<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has launched an Xbox 360 special, offering the gaming console to consumers at a reduced rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245"}],"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=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}