{"id":546509,"date":"2005-06-28T21:08:50","date_gmt":"2005-06-28T21:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/546509-mtn-vs-vodacom-3g.html"},"modified":"2005-06-28T21:08:50","modified_gmt":"2005-06-28T21:08:50","slug":"mtn-vs-vodacom-3g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/546509-mtn-vs-vodacom-3g.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN vs. Vodacom 3G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">The answer is that with cellular packages, it is often difficult to compare directly, given the different ways the operators bundle packages together. But, the table below gives some indication. <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/><font size=\"2\">The way that both are offering high speed data \u2013 which could be 3G, EDGE or GPRS \u2013 is by way of packages either bundled together as part of a new or existing contract and thus for use on a phone compatible with the technology, or else bundled together with a data card. Or, users can buy of data for their existing device at a rate of R2 per megabyte used \u2013 the same for both operators. <\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Vodacom initially launched its data card, with less emphasis on 3G phones, whereas MTN says most users will use 3G on their phones, and waited for more decent and affordable handsets to become available before launching. <\/font>\n<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" hspace=\"5\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\/cm_pics\/news\/1499-3463-0-0_209042.gif\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/font>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\" \/><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><font size=\"2\">Source:\u00a0 <\/font><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">http:\/\/www.moneyweb.co.za<\/font><br \/>\n<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"left\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the launch of MTN\u2019s 3G data service this week, six months after that of Vodacom, the question is who offers better value for money? <\/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-546509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546509"}],"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=546509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}