{"id":42755,"date":"2012-02-03T13:41:15","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T11:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=42755"},"modified":"2012-02-03T14:00:01","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T12:00:01","slug":"flat-rated-smartphone-data-bundles-from-mtn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/42755-flat-rated-smartphone-data-bundles-from-mtn.html","title":{"rendered":"Flat rated smartphone data bundles from MTN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"MTN\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226943-MTN\">MTN<\/a> is set to unveil their latest data innovation: flat rated smartphone data packages similar to the popular <a title=\"BlackBerry\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342709-BlackBerry\">BlackBerry<\/a> Internet service (BIS) offerings.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Serame Taukobong\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/327180-Serame-Taukobong\">Serame Taukobong<\/a>, MTN South Africa&#8217;s chief marketing officer, confirmed that the company is launching Smartphone Services, targeted at entry-level smartphone users.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;MTN Smartphone Services is designed to suit our smartphone users, further confirming MTNs focus on introducing services and solutions aligned to the needs of our customers,&#8221; said Taukobong.<\/p>\n<p>Taukobong added that MTN Smartphone Services are similar to the Blackberry internet service, but focused towards customers using different Smartphone handsets.<\/p>\n<p>MTN said that the following Smartphone Services are available for purchase:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nokia Smartphone Pro Service<\/strong> &#8211; 75MB fair use on Nokia Smartphones to access the <a title=\"Nokia\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314603-Nokia-Corporation\">Nokia<\/a> Ovi ecosystem (Nokia Messaging, Chat, Navigation and Ovi store). Other internet usage will also deplete the fair use allowance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MTN Smartphone Pro Service<\/strong> &#8211; 75MB fair use on any Smartphone for e-mail, Instant Messaging and Navigation. Other internet usage will also deplete the fair use allowance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MTN Social Networking Service<\/strong> &#8211; 75MB fair use to access <a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/348566-Facebook\">Facebook<\/a> &amp; <a title=\"MXit\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226948-MXit\">Mxit<\/a> (m.facebook.com &amp; m.mxit.com) on any Smartphone, any other social networks will be charged for.<\/li>\n<li><strong>MTN Opera Mini Internet Service<\/strong> &#8211; 75MB fair use on any Smartphone to access the internet using the MTN Branded <a title=\"Opera\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/272103-Opera-Software\">Opera<\/a> Mini browser. Customers need to ensure that they have the MTN Branded Opera Mini browser installed on their device.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;To sweeten your summer an additional <strong>MTN Smartphone Lite Service<\/strong> will be launched shortly. These Smartphone Services can be sold as value added Smartphone postpaid deals or purchased via the self-service channels,&#8221; said Taukobong.<\/p>\n<p>MTN would not reveal pricing for these services, merely saying that &#8220;pricing for the services will be issued soon.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation however suggests that the MTN Smartphone Services will be very aggressively priced, as shown in the following rumoured pricing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MTN Smartphone lite &#8211; R25<\/li>\n<li>MTN Smartphone Pro &#8211; R49<\/li>\n<li>Nokia Smartphone Pro &#8211; R49<\/li>\n<li>MTN Social Networking &#8211; R29<\/li>\n<li>MTN Opera Mini Internet &#8211; R35<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also read:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Smartphone data war brewing\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/5381\/flat-rated-smartphone-data-war-brewing\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Flat-rated smartphone data war brewing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN is launching smartphone data packages which will rival uncapped BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS) offerings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[97,35,42,1355],"class_list":["post-42755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-blackberry","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-serame-taukobong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42755"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42757,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42755\/revisions\/42757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}