{"id":547028,"date":"2005-10-13T17:55:04","date_gmt":"2005-10-13T17:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547028-a-g-axes-internet.html"},"modified":"2005-10-13T17:55:04","modified_gmt":"2005-10-13T17:55:04","slug":"a-g-axes-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547028-a-g-axes-internet.html","title":{"rendered":"A&#038;G axes internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Its cheap connection fee of R59 a month had not been raised in its three years of activity. Users have been offered an easy switch to another service provider, Polka, at R75 a month. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Although the service officially ended on September 30, some users heard the news only in October, when they received a phone call from Polka telling them the A&amp;G connectivity had been axed. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">A&amp;G become an unlikely internet player in January 2002, in a move timed to coincide with a decision by Absa group to discontinue its own unusual offering of free internet access. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Spokesman Angelo Haggiyannes says A&amp;G axed the service because it was not a core part of its business. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Users who agree to switch to Polka, an MWeb subsidiary, will get one month of free access, and e-mail from A&amp;G accounts will automatically be forwarded to new Polka e-mail accounts.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><em>Inet-Bridge<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ONE of the cheapest internet access services in SA has just been severed, with insurance company Auto &#038; General (A&#038;G) disconnecting its users last month. <\/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-547028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547028"}],"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=547028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}