{"id":729,"date":"2007-07-23T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-23T17:56:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T15:56:00","slug":"mtn-offers-virtual-prepaid-top-up-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/729-mtn-offers-virtual-prepaid-top-up-product.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN offers virtual prepaid top-up product"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>M-Charge is a virtual prepaid top up product which allows for the sale of airtime to prepaid subscribers without using cards, vouchers or pin numbers. <\/p>\n<p>Says Donovan Smith, GM Consumer Segment: &ldquo;There is the very real possibility that as a result of the M-Charge product, we could create 9 000 jobs for every 500 000 prepaid subscribers. Just imagine with over 6 million prepaid subscribers, we could create up to 108 000 new jobs.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The product is mobile which opens up the market to people who do not necessarily have premises. <\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtn.co.za\">MTN<\/a> &lsquo;getting set up in the business is really as easy as 1-2-3, and the investment required &ndash; a minimum of R300.00 is affordable. All you need is your MTN cell phone, a 32k or upwards SIM card, as well as R300.&rsquo; <\/p>\n<p>MTN will support start-up vendors by providing an MTN M-Charge Vendor pack from the nearest distributor which will contain a bib, hat (sportie) and other point of sale. <\/p>\n<p>A big selling point for M-Charge according to the provider is that this service provides customers with added convenience and they will be able to get airtime from vendors for R10-00 and up. <\/p>\n<p>Allowing entrepreneurs to sell directly to their community whilst making a living is well suited to the SA market, especially for people in rural and remote areas who often don&rsquo;t have easy access to the conventional distribution chain. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=82065\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN is reintroducing their M-Charge product which is designed to allow people with an entrepreneurial spirit to sell prepaid airtime to their community. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"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=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}