{"id":230805,"date":"2017-09-27T12:46:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T10:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=230805"},"modified":"2017-09-27T13:02:51","modified_gmt":"2017-09-27T11:02:51","slug":"vodacom-zero-rates-unversity-resources-for-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/230805-vodacom-zero-rates-unversity-resources-for-students.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom zero-rates university resources for students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom will zero-rate services to universities for students and staff who are Vodacom customers.<\/p>\n<p>Students and staff on Vodacom now have free access to their university&#8217;s online resources, in addition to Vodacom&#8217;s Mobile Education and Tries for Books campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom has already provided 19 South African Universities with free Internet access, including the University of Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The University of Cape Town is grateful to Vodacom for providing such an important resource to our students and staff,&#8221; said UCT Vice-Chancellor Max Price.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom said it remains committed to addressing data-cost transformation and building on its Siyakha platform, which offers zero-rated portals for learners and job seekers.<\/p>\n<p>For requirements over and above the zero-rated content, Vodacom will bill data traffic to certain sites at 50% of its normal data rates for universities.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/230749-vodacom-iot-network-passes-3-million-connections.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vodacom IoT network passes 3 million connections<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom will zero-rate services to universities for students and staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":130874,"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":[31858,41,15269],"class_list":["post-230805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-university","tag-vodacom","tag-zero-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230805"}],"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=230805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230807,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230805\/revisions\/230807"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}