{"id":550560,"date":"2006-10-18T11:51:55","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T11:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550560-vodacom-to-reduce-data-prices.html"},"modified":"2006-10-18T11:51:55","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T11:51:55","slug":"vodacom-to-reduce-data-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550560-vodacom-to-reduce-data-prices.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom to reduce data prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">From the 1st of November Vodacom data bundle customers will be charged less for out-of-bundle data.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">250 MB and 500 MB bundle customers will be charged R 1-50 per MB for additional data, a reduction of 25% from the previous R 2-00 per MB. 1 GB customers will be charged R 1-20 per MB, a 40% reduction from the previous rate.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Users with data bundles lower than 250 MB will still be charged R 2-00 per MB.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">This reduction brings Vodacom in line with MTN\u2019s out-of-bundle rates. MTN\u2019s 1 GB customers are currently paying R 1-25 per MB when exceeding their limit while their 500 MB bundle subscribers are charged R 1-50 per MB out of bundle.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">VirginMobile remains the cheapest mobile data provider when it comes to basic per-MB data. They charge a flat rate of R 0-50 per MB for all data. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">It should however be noted that VirginMobile, which uses the CellC network, only has EDGE and GPRS services which are far slower than Vodacom and MTN\u2019s 3G and HSDPA offerings.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=56174\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discuss this article<\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom has announced a data rate reduction for its current contract data bundle users, with reductions of between 25% and 40% on out-of-bundle rates depending on which contract users are on.<\/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-550560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550560"}],"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=550560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}