{"id":546492,"date":"2005-06-21T16:05:22","date_gmt":"2005-06-21T16:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/546492-mtn-s-3g-service-ready.html"},"modified":"2005-06-21T16:05:22","modified_gmt":"2005-06-21T16:05:22","slug":"mtn-s-3g-service-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/546492-mtn-s-3g-service-ready.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN\u2019s 3G Service Ready"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">MTN\u2019s 3G service provides a maximum download speed of 384 kbps and will initially be available in the CBD\u2019s of Johannesburg, Midrand, Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban, Port Elizabeth and Bloemfontein. This service will be available to customers from the 26th of June.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The Nokia 6680, which supports both 3G and EDGE, is the recommended handset for data users. The other 3G enabled handsets which are supported for the launch are the Sony Ericsson Z800, Samsung SGH-Z130 and the Motorola V975.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The data costs involved for the 3G service are predicted to be the same as the current GPRS rates. Movie Trailers and Videomail will most likely be free services.\u00a0<font face=\"verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"> <\/font><font face=\"verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: \"courier new\"\"><font face=\"verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif\">Video calls will cost R2p\/min for postpaid and R3p\/min for prepaid customers.<\/font><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">MTN was not available for official comment, but a press briefing regarding the official 3G launch should take place early next week.<\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN\u2019s long awaited 3G service is now available for testing, and will be officially launched on the 26th of June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546492"}],"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=546492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}