{"id":240620,"date":"2017-12-04T08:02:35","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T06:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=240620"},"modified":"2017-12-04T08:04:31","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T06:04:31","slug":"mtn-launches-out-of-bundle-data-blocking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/240620-mtn-launches-out-of-bundle-data-blocking.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN launches out-of-bundle data blocking"},"content":{"rendered":"

MTN has launched a simple way for subscribers to block out-of-bundle (OOB) data usage, with its new \u201cOut of Bundle Barring\u201d service.<\/p>\n

Out of Bundle Barring is available to users via the USSD menu, by dialing *141*0# and selecting the relevent option.<\/p>\n

Out of Bundle Barring can be option 7, 8, or 11 – depending on which package a subscriber is on.<\/p>\n

The price of out-of-bundle data has come under fire recently in South Africa, with users complaining about bill shock after using OOB data.<\/p>\n

Users have called on operators to make it possible to switch off OOB data, and MTN has responded to this call.<\/p>\n

The images below of the USSD menus illustrate the use of MTN\u2019s Out of Bundle Barring.<\/p>\n

Out of Bundle Barring’s launch now means that Telkom and MTN customers can block OOB data usage by default on the networks.<\/p>\n

\"MTN-USSD-1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"MTN-USSD-2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Now read:\u00a0We tested out-of-bundle notifications and our airtime got destroyed<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MTN has launched a simple way for users to block out-of-bundle data usage.<\/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":[35,42,46952],"class_list":["post-240620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-out-of-bundle-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240620"}],"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=240620"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240630,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240620\/revisions\/240630"}],"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=240620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}