{"id":549492,"date":"2006-07-12T07:14:27","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T07:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/549492-mtn-microsoft-will-work-together.html"},"modified":"2006-07-12T07:14:27","modified_gmt":"2006-07-12T07:14:27","slug":"mtn-microsoft-will-work-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/549492-mtn-microsoft-will-work-together.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN, Microsoft will work together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Visiting South Africa &#8211; together with former United States President Bill Clinton &#8211; Gates said this would cut the cost of internet access in South Africa. Gates is scheduled to meet President Thabo Mbeki in Pretoria later on Tuesday. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Speaking at a leaders&#8217; forum &#8211; sponsored by Microsoft &#8211; in Cape Town, Gates said in a prepared message that through this collaboration, Microsoft and MTN would work together to provide affordable finance options for consumers purchasing internet connectivity and an Intel PC running Microsoft Windows Starter Edition software. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Gates said this programme would allow &quot;flexible terms&quot; through either the purchase of the PC and internet access on a fixed term contract for a low monthly fee or through purchasing the PC and a month-to month internet control. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>&quot;This initiative will make purchasing a computer and internet connectivity more affordable and therefore more broadly accessible, for the average South African consumer. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>&quot;By supporting partners delivering more affordable internet access, Microsoft is enabling access to technology to expand opportunities that help citizens in emerging technology markets access to social and economic benefits of the global IT industry,&quot; he said. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>MTN strategy and product innovation head Ashraff Paruk said in prepared notes that the collaboration with Microsoft would encourage enterprise development among disadvantaged communities. &quot;Our commitment is to growing the prosperity of communities, actively developing infrastructure, and participating in the social and economic life of the countries in which we operate.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><i \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=47816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font color=\"#0000ff\" size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has announced &#8220;new collaborations&#8221; with South Africa&#8217;s largest cellular operator, Mobile Telephone Networks (MTN), to help bring &#8220;affordable wireless broadband connectivity&#8221; and PC access to consumers in South Africa, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced. <\/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-549492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549492"}],"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=549492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}