{"id":33520,"date":"2011-09-08T16:10:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T14:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=33520"},"modified":"2011-09-09T10:26:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T08:26:55","slug":"8ta-larger-prepaid-data-packages-arrive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/33520-8ta-larger-prepaid-data-packages-arrive.html","title":{"rendered":"8ta larger prepaid data packages arrive"},"content":{"rendered":"

8ta<\/a> has delighted consumers with their mobile broadband data promotions which offer consumers 10GB of data on contract for R199 per month and 2GB of prepaid data at R149<\/a>.<\/p>\n

These promotional prices from 8ta are well below the normal cellular rates where R150 to R200 per GB has become the norm.<\/p>\n

Unbeknownst to many people, 8ta has also launched two new prepaid data bundles which complement the company’s current 100MB (R50), 250MB (R100), 500MB (R150) and 1GB (R250) packages.<\/p>\n

The two new data bundles are a 2GB bundle priced at R380 and a 5GB bundle priced at R800.<\/p>\n

These new prepaid bundles from 8ta were launched on Thursday last week (1 September 2011) as part of the Telkom Business Mobile launch<\/a>, but unlike many of the Telkom<\/a> Business Mobile products there, the new pre-paid bundles are available to consumers as well.<\/p>\n

The new prepaid bundles are available to prepaid, contract and hybrid subscribers.<\/p>\n

These prices are significantly higher than 8ta’s 10GB for R199 and 2GB for R149 promotions, raising the question why their standard rates are so much higher than their promotional rates.<\/p>\n

8ta explained that the once-off Internet 2GB bundle priced at R380 was launched as their standard 2GB pre-paid offer and is available to all subscribers on both the 8ta network and MTN roaming.<\/p>\n

“The GO3GIGS offer is a promotional offer which is only available on 8ta’s network and is available for a limited period of time which explains the price difference,” 8ta said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

8ta launches 2GB and 5GB prepaid data bundles, complementing their existing smaller packages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":28009,"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":[473,35,4578],"class_list":["post-33520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","category-cellular","tag-8ta","tag-headline","tag-telkom-mobile-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33520"}],"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=33520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33522,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33520\/revisions\/33522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}