{"id":46962,"date":"2012-04-02T14:00:24","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T12:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=46962"},"modified":"2012-04-02T14:26:50","modified_gmt":"2012-04-02T12:26:50","slug":"8ta-extends-midnight-surfer-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/46962-8ta-extends-midnight-surfer-hours.html","title":{"rendered":"8ta extends midnight surfer hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"8ta\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/276092-8ta\">8ta<\/a> announced\u00a0today (2 April 2012) that its midnight surfer data offering, which provides internet surfing at a discounted rate, will be extended by one hour. The name will also be changed to \u2018night surfer\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe data option will now be known as night surfer, rather than midnight surfer as it has previously been known. Users will now be able to enjoy surfing on 8ta\u2019s high speed network from 11pm, rather than midnight, until 5am,\u201d 8ta said in a press statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe analysed our network load curves during the course of the day and have decided that we do have capacity at 23h00 to cater for increased network utilisation, without compromising the user experience. This is a case of passing the benefit back to the customer,\u201d said <a title=\"Amith Maharaj\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/276004-Amith-Maharaj\">Amith Maharaj<\/a>, senior managing executive at <a title=\"Telkom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227037-Telkom\">Telkom<\/a> Mobile.<\/p>\n<p>8ta\u2019s night surfer is available on the company\u2019s 3GB Go Big service (2GB + 1GB), its 60GB + 60GB promotion offer and the 10GB Internet 5 promo\u2019s midnight surfer bundle option.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"More Telkom 40Mbps VDSL trial details revealed (25 March 2012)\" href=\"..\/broadband\/46308-more-telkom-40mbps-vdsl-trial-details-revealed.html\"><strong>More Telkom 40Mbps VDSL trial details revealed (25 March 2012)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Large data packages to be bundled with Samsung TVs (23 March 2012)\" href=\"..\/broadband\/46310-large-data-packages-to-be-bundled-with-samsung-tvs.html\"><strong>Large data packages to be bundled with Samsung TVs (23 March 2012)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom, 8ta and ADSL challenges\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/8625\/telkom-8ta-and-adsl-service-challenges\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Telkom, 8ta and ADSL service challenges<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8ta is extending its midnight surfer data offering by an hour, and changes the name to night surfer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":41041,"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],"tags":[473,36,469,109,689],"class_list":["post-46962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-8ta","tag-active","tag-amith-maharaj","tag-telkom","tag-telkom-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46962"}],"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=46962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46964,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46962\/revisions\/46964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}