{"id":39611,"date":"2011-12-08T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=39611"},"modified":"2011-12-09T09:43:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T07:43:00","slug":"iburst-removes-prepaid-data-limitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/39611-iburst-removes-prepaid-data-limitations.html","title":{"rendered":"iBurst removes prepaid data limitations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"iBurst\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/289087-iBurst\">iBurst<\/a> today (8 December 2011) announced that they have done away with access time limitations on prepaid vouchers, and also introduced new benefits like discounts of up to 77% for consumers who have topped up in excess of 4GB.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe revision to the prepaid offering means that with the added benefit of unlimited carry over, consumers will now be able to access these prepaid vouchers \/unused data over an unlimited period of time,\u201d iBurst explains.<\/p>\n<p>The company says that the decision to scrap time limitations on prepaid vouchers was prompted in part by the Consumer Commission&#8217;s complaint that it was acting in contravention of section 63 of the <a title=\"Consumer Protection Act\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/379779-CPA-Consumer-Protection-Act\">Consumer Protection Act<\/a>.\u00a0 iBurst says that it is happy to comply with this provision of the Act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe decided that it was within our power to remove these limitations on both our pre \u2013 threshold and post &#8211; threshold prepaid data vouchers,\u201d said <a title=\"Zahir Kahn\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/369814-Zahir-Kahn\">Zahir Kahn<\/a>, Head of Product at iBurst.<\/p>\n<p>The withdrawal of access time limitations on prepaid products became effective on Wednesday the 7th of December.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Data rollover and Consumer Act\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/39431-no-data-rollover-lands-broadband-providers-in-trouble.html\">No data rollover lands broadband providers in trouble<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iBurst today announced that they have done away with access time limitations on prepaid vouchers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":34952,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,683,7379],"class_list":["post-39611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-headline","tag-iburst","tag-zahir-kahn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39611"}],"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=39611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39613,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39611\/revisions\/39613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}