{"id":68326,"date":"2013-01-10T13:32:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T11:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=68326"},"modified":"2013-01-10T17:08:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T15:08:52","slug":"vodacom-price-hike-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/68326-vodacom-price-hike-explained.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom price hike explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Vodacom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227063-Vodacom\">Vodacom<\/a> has doubled the price of its Power Hour promotion, which was re-launched today, and the company explained that the slightly longer operational hours meant that R10 (instead of R5) is an optimal price point.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 Power Hour promotion offers 60 minutes of pre-paid talk time between 6am and 6pm on weekdays for R5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBased on customer feedback we\u2019ve extended the promotion by two hours at an optimal price point,\u201d said Vodacom spokesperson <a title=\"Nomsa Thusi\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/353286-Nomsa-Thusi\">Nomsa Thusi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe service now ends at 8pm instead of 6pm which allows customers to have more flexibility of choice when using the service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Initial comments from consumers about this change from Vodacom was not positive. \u201cFor double your money in six months, you get an extra 2 hours&#8230;.Epic fail,\u201d said one consumer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly there are many retarded people in this country if Vodacom can greenlight something this retarded,\u201d said another commentator.<\/p>\n<p>The promotion will run from 10th January 2013 and to 28 February 2013.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Vodacom Power Hour articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Vodacom Power Hour returns, at double the price\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/68300-vodacom-power-hour-returns-at-double-the-price.html\"><strong>Vodacom Power Hour returns, at double the price<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vodacom R5 for 60 minutes promotion\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/53901-vodacom-r5-for-60-minutes-promotion.html\"><strong>Vodacom R5 for 60 minutes promotion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"How to get 540 Vodacom minutes for R12\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/54727-how-to-get-540-vodacom-minutes-for-r12.html\">How to get 540 Vodacom minutes for R12<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom explained that customer feedback and promotional changes are behind their Power Hour promotion price hike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":68330,"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":[14],"tags":[35,927,41],"class_list":["post-68326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-nomsa-thusi","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68326"}],"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=68326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68342,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68326\/revisions\/68342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}