{"id":40895,"date":"2012-01-10T09:57:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T07:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=40895"},"modified":"2012-01-10T10:05:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T08:05:14","slug":"8ta-slashes-prepaid-data-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/40895-8ta-slashes-prepaid-data-prices.html","title":{"rendered":"8ta slashes prepaid data prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom\u2019s consumer mobile arm, 8ta, has slashed the prices of their prepaid data packages. However, it isn\u2019t clear whether the price cuts are for a new promotion, or whether they will be permanently reduced.<\/p>\n<p>Most of 8ta\u2019s data bundles received a 20% price cut, with the exception of its 2GB bundle which saw a 30% reduction, and the 5GB package which now costs 16.75% less.<\/p>\n<p>8ta has made no official announcement regarding the new prices, which were spotted by a MyBroadband forum member late on the evening of 9 January 2012 through 8ta&#8217;s *180# USSD menu st night .<\/p>\n<p>The mobile network operator was contacted for comment, and promised to provide feedback by this afternoon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_40899\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40899\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40899\" title=\"8ta new prepaid data pricing - 10 January 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/8ta-new-prepaid-data-pricing.jpg\" alt=\"8ta new prepaid data pricing - 10 January 2012\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/8ta-new-prepaid-data-pricing.jpg 480w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/8ta-new-prepaid-data-pricing-40x30.jpg 40w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/8ta-new-prepaid-data-pricing-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/8ta-new-prepaid-data-pricing-185x138.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-40899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">8ta new prepaid data pricing - 10 January 2012<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" style=\"width: 100%; background-color: #f0f0f0; border-color: #fff;\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<thead>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #ccc;\">\n<th>Bundle<\/th>\n<th>New price<\/th>\n<th>Per MB<\/th>\n<th>Old price<\/th>\n<th>% Change<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>100MB<\/td>\n<td>R40<\/td>\n<td>40c\/MB<\/td>\n<td>R50<\/td>\n<td>-20%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>250MB<\/td>\n<td>R80<\/td>\n<td>32c\/MB<\/td>\n<td>R100<\/td>\n<td>-20%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>500MB<\/td>\n<td>R120<\/td>\n<td>24c\/MB<\/td>\n<td>R150<\/td>\n<td>-20%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1GB<\/td>\n<td>R200<\/td>\n<td>20c\/MB<\/td>\n<td>R250<\/td>\n<td>-20%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2GB<\/td>\n<td>R266<\/td>\n<td>13c\/MB<\/td>\n<td>R380<\/td>\n<td>-30%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5GB<\/td>\n<td>R666<\/td>\n<td>13c\/MB<\/td>\n<td>R800<\/td>\n<td>-16.75%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8ta quietly reduced the prices of their prepaid data bundles recently<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":26631,"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":[14],"tags":[473,35,1735],"class_list":["post-40895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-8ta","tag-headline","tag-prepaid-data"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40895"}],"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=40895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40919,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40895\/revisions\/40919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}