{"id":548566,"date":"2006-04-19T18:08:46","date_gmt":"2006-04-19T18:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548566-cellphone-banking-users-continue-trend.html"},"modified":"2006-04-19T18:08:46","modified_gmt":"2006-04-19T18:08:46","slug":"cellphone-banking-users-continue-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548566-cellphone-banking-users-continue-trend.html","title":{"rendered":"Cellphone banking users continue trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">In December record transactions numbers were recorded, and these records have been rewritten again in March, the company says.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">For the period March 2005 to March 2006 the total value of transactions conducted exceeded R1,6bn. In December 2005 over 2,68m transactions were performed. <\/p>\n<p>The value of the financial transactions performed exceeded R221m.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cWhat this tells us is that cellphone banking is being recognised as a convenience tool. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;In December many South Africans were on holiday, and obviously took advantage of the fact that they could do cellphone banking wherever they happened to be: in the country, on a beach, in a bus,\u201d says Christo Vrey, GM: Digital Channels at Absa.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cWe are closely monitoring these figures during the April holiday period and are expecting to see significant increases again.\u201d<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=41738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 2006 figures claim that Absa&#8217;s clients are finding value in using their cellphones as a bank.<\/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-548566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548566"}],"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=548566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}