{"id":244144,"date":"2018-01-10T11:04:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=244144"},"modified":"2018-01-10T11:08:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T09:08:48","slug":"cell-c-whatsapp-bundle-price-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/244144-cell-c-whatsapp-bundle-price-increase.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell C WhatsApp bundle price increase"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cell C has announced<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0it will increase the price of its WhatsApp bundle from R12 to R15 on 1 February 2018.<\/p>\n

Cell C\u2019s WhatsApp bundle offers users access to WhatsApp for 30 days, with a fair usage limit of 600MB.<\/p>\n

Cell C launched its WhatsApp bundle promotion in October 2014, which provided subscribers with free text, image sending, or voice messages over WhatsApp.<\/p>\n

When the promotion ended in August 2015, the company launched a R5 WhatsApp bundle<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0– giving subscribers a month\u2019s access to WhatsApp with a fair usage limit of 1GB.<\/p>\n

In May 2016, Cell C increased the price<\/strong><\/a> of its WhatsApp bundle from R5 to R7.50 – but increased the fair use limit to 1.2GB.<\/p>\n

On 1 February 2017<\/strong><\/a>, Cell C increased the price of the WhatsApp bundle from R7.50 to R12 per month.<\/p>\n

On 1 October 2017,\u00a0Cell C changed its fair usage policy<\/strong><\/a> of its WhatsApp bundle to 600MB.<\/p>\n

The table below shows how Cell C\u2019s WhatsApp bundle has changed since launch.<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Cell C WhatsApp Bundle<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/strong><\/td>\nFair Use Limit<\/strong><\/td>\nBundle Price<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
October 2014<\/td>\n1GB<\/td>\nFree<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
September 2015<\/td>\n1GB<\/td>\nR5.00<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
May 2016<\/td>\n1.2GB<\/td>\nR7.50<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
February 2017<\/td>\n1.2GB<\/td>\nR12.00<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
October 2017<\/td>\n600MB<\/td>\nR12.00<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
February 2018<\/td>\n600MB<\/td>\nR15.00<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Now read:\u00a0WhatsApp vs Telegram \u2013 Features and security<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cell C will increase the price of its WhatsApp bundle on 1 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":168223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[355,35,2594,37290],"class_list":["post-244144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-whatsapp","tag-whatsapp-bundle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244144"}],"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=244144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244146,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244144\/revisions\/244146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}