{"id":5355,"date":"2008-09-25T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T19:41:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-25T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T19:41:00","slug":"iphone-pricing-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/5355-iphone-pricing-speculation.html","title":{"rendered":"iPhone pricing speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the worst kept secrets in the cellular industry is the launch of the iPhone in South Africa on Friday 26 September.&nbsp; But Vodacom and Apple&nbsp;were far better at keeping&nbsp;the price of the 3G iPhone under wraps.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Recent reports started to emerge that the iPhone will be available on contract and prepaid with prices dependent on the version of the iPhone purchased and the contract.<\/p>\n<p>According to iAfrica the prepaid price of the iPhone will be R 7999.00 for the 8 GB version and R 9799.00 for the 16 GB version.&nbsp; iAfrica reported that this pricing came from a spokesperson at Cellucity, but was also confirmed by a Vodashop owner.&nbsp; This pricing is however significantly higher than the official pricing:&nbsp; <a href=\"\/news\/Cellular\/5358.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/Cellular\/5358.html<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This pricing however remains purely speculative at this stage and official pricing will only be made available tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>The iPhone will be available country wide tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/Cellular\/5357.html\"><strong>Official iPhone pricing here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=137256\"><strong>Vodacom iPhone pricing discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pricing on the 3G iPhone starting to emerge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355"}],"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=5355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}