{"id":748,"date":"2007-07-25T07:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T05:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-25T07:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T05:46:00","slug":"r-99-00-per-month-3g-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/748-r-99-00-per-month-3g-offer.html","title":{"rendered":"R 99-00 per month 3G offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.is.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Solutions<\/a> (IS) confirmed that they have launched an offering where they will sell the data cards &ndash;&nbsp;packaged with a 6 month usage contract &ndash; to the market. <\/p>\n<p>The cost for this service is R499-00 up front for the hardware and activation and R 99-00 per month for a 6 month period entitling the user to 250 MB of usage per month. These prices exclude VAT and users will not be able to purchase the hardware without the 6 month 250 MB data contract.<\/p>\n<p>The price of R 99-00 for 250 MB of data is significantly less than any mobile provider, and IS said that it uses its own bandwidth to serve these 3G clients.<\/p>\n<p>While IS does not currently sell this directly to consumers it is already available through their reseller channel.<\/p>\n<p>One of these resellers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hyperlink.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">Hyperlink<\/a>, says that the uptake of this product has been tremendous.&nbsp; &ldquo;The response after only a single ad was overwhelming,&rdquo; said Jacqueco Peenz, MD of Hyperlink.<\/p>\n<p>While these data cards may not be new, IS said that they will replace any data cards issued to clients which may be faulty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=82197\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The old Vodacom\/Vodafone 3G data cards have found their way back into the local market through Internet Solutions who have launched a R 99-00 per month 3G service.<\/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-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748"}],"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=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}