{"id":6102,"date":"2008-11-24T02:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T00:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-11-24T02:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T00:42:00","slug":"virgin-mobile-ups-data-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/6102-virgin-mobile-ups-data-costs.html","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Mobile ups data costs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virgin Mobile has quietly upped its data and SMS rates for its post- and pre-paid accounts and eliminated off-peak rates. <\/p>\n

The new rates mean that Virgin Mobile’s peak-time tariffs are significantly lower than its competitors. On the downside, however, it also means that users will not benefit from low off-peak rates. <\/p>\n

Virgin Mobile’s all-day rate is now 60c per SMS. MMSs are charged at a flat rate of 75c each and its per-MB data rate is set at 60c. <\/p>\n

In comparison, Vodacom’s 4U customers are charged 80c per SMS in peak times and 35c in off-peak times. Pay-as-you-go MTN customers are charged 75c per peak-time SMS while off-peak SMSs cost 35c. <\/p>\n

For data users, the differences are even starker. While Vodacom and MTN charge around R2\/MB for out-of-bundle data usage, their in-bundle rates for 2 GB or more drop to R0.19\/MB. This is in comparison with Virgin Mobile’s flat rate of R0.60 per megabyte.<\/p>\n

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Flat-rated SMS charges eliminate off-peak benefits<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6102"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}