{"id":27057,"date":"2011-06-23T10:36:34","date_gmt":"2011-06-23T08:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=27057"},"modified":"2011-06-23T12:46:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-23T10:46:20","slug":"8ta-project-hulk-data-special","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/27057-8ta-project-hulk-data-special.html","title":{"rendered":"8ta &#8216;Project Hulk&#8217; data special"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>8ta today (23 June 2011) launched a data promotion which significantly undercuts any other mobile broadband offering currently available on the SA market.<\/p>\n<p>8ta launched two data products, a 10GB data bundle priced at R199 per month and a 10GB + 10GB Midnight Surfer service priced at R299 per month.\u00a0Both services are available on 24 month contracts.<\/p>\n<p>8ta\u2019s 10GB + 10GB service offers subscribers 10GB of data per month, with another 10GB of data from 00:00 to 05:00.<\/p>\n<p>8ta\u2019s new pricing is significantly more aggressive than Vodacom, Cell C and MTN\u2019s 2GB promotions priced at R149 per month. It also undercuts Cell C\u2019s 5GB per month data offering priced at R299 per month on contract.<\/p>\n<p>8ta\u2019s new promotion is jokingly referred to as the \u2018Project Hulk\u2019 special because of the aggressive pricing.<\/p>\n<p>The following table provides an overview of the most prominent mobile broadband promotions available today.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" border=\"1\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"5\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"6\" bgcolor=\"#999999\"><strong>Mobile Data Contracts<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"#cccccc\"><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#cccccc\"><strong>Standard data<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#cccccc\"><strong>After hours data<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#cccccc\"><strong>Price<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#cccccc\"><strong>Basic Cost\/MB<\/strong><\/td>\n<td bgcolor=\"#cccccc\"><strong>Lowest Cost\/MB<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8ta 10GB + 10GB<\/td>\n<td>10GB<\/td>\n<td>10GB<\/td>\n<td>R299<\/td>\n<td>R0.019<\/td>\n<td>R0.014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8ta 10GB<\/td>\n<td>10GB<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<td>R199<\/td>\n<td>R0.019<\/td>\n<td>R0.019<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Vodacom 2GB + 2GB (modem inc)<\/td>\n<td>2GB<\/td>\n<td>2GB<\/td>\n<td>R149<\/td>\n<td>R0.073<\/td>\n<td>R0.036<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cell C (modem inc)<\/td>\n<td>5GB<\/td>\n<td>&#8212;<\/td>\n<td>R299<\/td>\n<td>R0.058<\/td>\n<td>R0.058<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cell C 2GB (modem inc)<\/td>\n<td>2GB<\/td>\n<td>\u2013<\/td>\n<td>R149<\/td>\n<td>R0.073<\/td>\n<td>R0.073<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MTN 2GB (modem inc)<\/td>\n<td>2GB<\/td>\n<td>\u2013<\/td>\n<td>R149<\/td>\n<td>R0.073<\/td>\n<td>R0.073<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p>The new 8ta promotion is a data-only special where subscribers have the option of either using their own modem or purchasing a modem from 8ta. 8ta\u2019s price for a 7.2Mbps modem is R349 while a 21Mbps costs R699.<\/p>\n<p>Out of bundle data is priced at 30c per MB.<\/p>\n<p>Users should note that this offer is only available on the 8ta network, and not on MTN roaming.<\/p>\n<p>The promotion kicks off on Sunday, 26 June 2011, and will only be available for a limited period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8ta today announced the launch of a 10GB data bundle at R199 per month and 10GB + 10GB data special at R299 per month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":27423,"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":[4,14],"tags":[473,469,35,109,689],"class_list":["post-27057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","category-cellular","tag-8ta","tag-amith-maharaj","tag-headline","tag-telkom","tag-telkom-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27057"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27061,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27057\/revisions\/27061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}