{"id":52115,"date":"2012-06-08T08:16:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T06:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=52115"},"modified":"2012-06-08T09:42:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T07:42:33","slug":"8ta-network-growing-disruptive-voice-packages-planned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/52115-8ta-network-growing-disruptive-voice-packages-planned.html","title":{"rendered":"8ta network growing; disruptive voice packages planned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"8ta\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/276092-8ta\">8ta<\/a> is steadily growing its network, and had 1,849 base stations built with 1,316 live sites by the end of May 2012.\u00a0 This is according to <a title=\"Telkom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227037-Telkom\">Telkom<\/a> CEO <a title=\"Nombulelo Moholi\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/210092-Pinky-Nombulelo-Moholi\">Nombulelo Moholi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom unveiled its annual results for the year ended 31 March 2012 today (8 June 2012), which showed that its active mobile subscribers increased 213% to 1,483,401 with a blended <a title=\"ARPU (average revenue per user)\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2543-ARPU-Average-Revenue-Per-User\">ARPU (average revenue per user)<\/a> of R68.86.<\/p>\n<p>According to Moholi 51% of their mobile voice subscribers are active on their own network while 85% of their data subscribers are using the 8ta network.<\/p>\n<p>Moholi pointed out that 8ta has launched highly competitive and leading data offerings, and that these data offerings will include disruptive voice packages in future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom reports 33% fall in headline profit\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/14782\/telkom-reports-33-fall-in-headline-profit\/\"><strong>Telkom reports 33% fall in headline profit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"8ta responds to Vodacom, Cell C 99c pre-paid pricing\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/50363-8ta-responds-to-vodacom-cell-c-99c-pre-paid-pricing.html\"><strong>8ta responds to Vodacom, Cell C 99c pre-paid pricing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MTN laughs off Vodacom, Cell C prepaid price cuts\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/50271-mtn-laughs-off-vodacom-cell-c-prepaid-price-cuts.html\"><strong>MTN laughs off Vodacom, Cell C prepaid price cuts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cell C slashes prepaid voice and data prices\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/12641\/cell-c-slashes-prepaid-voice-and-data-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cell C slashes prepaid voice and data prices<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8ta is steadily growing its data network; 85% of 8ta data subscribers are served on its own network<\/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":[14],"tags":[473,36,1665,109],"class_list":["post-52115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-8ta","tag-active","tag-nombulelo-moholi","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52115"}],"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=52115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52117,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52115\/revisions\/52117"}],"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=52115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}