{"id":551679,"date":"2007-03-02T06:50:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-02T06:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551679-iburst-clarifies-data-bonus-offer.html"},"modified":"2007-03-02T06:50:21","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T06:50:21","slug":"iburst-clarifies-data-bonus-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551679-iburst-clarifies-data-bonus-offer.html","title":{"rendered":"iBurst clarifies data bonus offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Earlier this week iBurst responded to Sentech and MTN\u2019s price reductions with an announcement that users on a 12, 24 and 36 month contract will be subject to an additional bandwidth allowance on their accounts.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">These allowances range between 200 MB and 500 MB per month, depending on the package.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">iBurst\u2019s prepaid customers will however not receive this additional data, something that they are not particularly happy about. Both MTN and Sentech have decided to offer their new prices and extra bandwidth to both month-to-month and contract customers making iBurst\u2019s month-to-month subscribers feel that they are being unfairly discriminated against.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cWhat a joke, month to month I pay the same amount to them, so why is there no increase for me? Come on iBurst explain?\u201d said one of their customer\u2019s who feels short changed.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Another subscriber blasted iBurst stating: \u201cThat&#8217;s discriminatory&#8230; time to get ADSL and vote with my feet!\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">iBurst has come under fire recently from consumers for an aggressive advertising campaign against what they call \u2018rogue\u2019wireless internet providers, and is again being criticized for what many believe to be a lackluster response to far more aggressive price cuts from other broadband operators.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=67950\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iBurst has confirmed that their month to month customers will not receive extra bandwidth in their \u2018Data Bonus\u2019 offerings.<\/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-551679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551679"}],"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=551679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}