{"id":88389,"date":"2013-10-07T14:19:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T12:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=88389"},"modified":"2013-10-07T14:32:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T12:32:34","slug":"mtn-contract-builder-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/88389-mtn-contract-builder-launched.html","title":{"rendered":"MTN contract builder launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A contract builder application called &#8220;My MTNChoice&#8221; is being advertised on the MTN website.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to Cell C\u2019s \u201cBuild your own\u201d contract option, MTN said it lets users put together a contract package that best suits their needs.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, MTN said that MTNChoice will let subscribers set usage limits and real-time notifications to alert them when they are close to their out-of-bundle spend limit.<\/p>\n<p>Once the out-of-bundle usage limit is reached a subscriber must recharge to call, SMS, or use Internet services, MTN said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the MTN site, subscribers build an MTNChoice contract by selecting a base package which includes either minutes or data. Bundles of minutes, SMS messages, and data may then be bolted on.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; width: 100%;\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #002440; font-weight: bold; color: #fff;\">\n<td>MyMTN Choice plan<\/td>\n<td>Price<\/td>\n<td>Airtime\/month<\/td>\n<td>OOB Voice on-net<\/td>\n<td>OOB Voice off-net<\/td>\n<td>Data<\/td>\n<td>SMS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>25 min<\/td>\n<td>R35<\/td>\n<td>25 Anytime minutes<\/td>\n<td>R1.30<\/td>\n<td>R1.70<\/td>\n<td>R1<\/td>\n<td>R0.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>50 min<\/td>\n<td>R70<\/td>\n<td>50 Anytime minutes<\/td>\n<td>R1.30<\/td>\n<td>R1.70<\/td>\n<td>R1<\/td>\n<td>R0.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>100 min<\/td>\n<td>R135<\/td>\n<td>100 Anytime minutes<\/td>\n<td>R1.20<\/td>\n<td>R1.60<\/td>\n<td>R1<\/td>\n<td>R0.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>200 min<\/td>\n<td>R270<\/td>\n<td>200 Anytime minutes<\/td>\n<td>R1.20<\/td>\n<td>R1.60<\/td>\n<td>R1<\/td>\n<td>R0.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>350 min *<\/td>\n<td>R400<\/td>\n<td>400 Anytime minutes<\/td>\n<td>R1.00<\/td>\n<td>R1.40<\/td>\n<td>R1<\/td>\n<td>R0.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>500 min<\/td>\n<td>R570<\/td>\n<td>500 Anytime minutes<\/td>\n<td>R1.00<\/td>\n<td>R1.40<\/td>\n<td>R1<\/td>\n<td>R0.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1,000 min<\/td>\n<td>R1,000<\/td>\n<td>1,000 Anytime minutes<\/td>\n<td>R0.90<\/td>\n<td>R1.20<\/td>\n<td>R1<\/td>\n<td>R0.50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1GB data<\/td>\n<td>R79<\/td>\n<td>1GB<\/td>\n<td>R1.95<\/td>\n<td>R1.95<\/td>\n<td>R0.29<\/td>\n<td>R0.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2GB data<\/td>\n<td>R119<\/td>\n<td>2GB<\/td>\n<td>R1.95<\/td>\n<td>R1.95<\/td>\n<td>R0.29<\/td>\n<td>R0.75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #004276; font-weight: bold; color: #fff;\">\n<td colspan=\"7\">* There appears to be a clerical error on the MTN website regarding this deal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p>The terms and conditions on the MTN site state that the base packages are available on either 6-, 12-, 18-, or 24-month contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Recurring or once-off add-on bundles may then be added to the contract, subject to certain rules.<\/p>\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" style=\"background-color: #f4f4f4; width: 100%;\" border=\"1\" cellpadding=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background-color: #004276; font-weight: bold; color: #fff;\">\n<td>AnyTime Minute Bundle<\/td>\n<td>Price<\/td>\n<td>SMS bundle<\/td>\n<td>Price<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>AnyTime 50min<\/td>\n<td>R70<\/td>\n<td>SMS30<\/td>\n<td>R6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>AnyTime 100min<\/td>\n<td>R135<\/td>\n<td>SMS50<\/td>\n<td>R10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>AnyTime 200min<\/td>\n<td>R270<\/td>\n<td>SMS100<\/td>\n<td>R14.99<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>AnyTime 500min<\/td>\n<td>R570<\/td>\n<td>SMS200<\/td>\n<td>R30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background-color: #004276; font-weight: bold; color: #fff;\">MTN to MTN Minute bundle<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #004276; font-weight: bold; color: #fff;\">Price<\/td>\n<td>SMS300<\/td>\n<td>R45<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MTN to MTN 50min<\/td>\n<td>R45<\/td>\n<td>SMS500<\/td>\n<td>R75<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MTN to MTN 100min<\/td>\n<td>R85<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #004276; font-weight: bold; color: #fff;\">Data bundle<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #004276; font-weight: bold; color: #fff;\">Price<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MTN to MTN 200min<\/td>\n<td>R160<\/td>\n<td>20MB<\/td>\n<td>R10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background-color: #004276; font-weight: bold; color: #fff;\">Smartphone bundle<\/td>\n<td style=\"background-color: #004276; font-weight: bold; color: #fff;\">Price<\/td>\n<td>100MB<\/td>\n<td>R30<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Nokia smartphone service<\/td>\n<td>R49<\/td>\n<td>300MB<\/td>\n<td>R40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MTN smartphone service<\/td>\n<td>R49<\/td>\n<td>500MB<\/td>\n<td>R50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MTN social service<\/td>\n<td>R29<\/td>\n<td>1GB<\/td>\n<td>R90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MTN Opera Mini<\/td>\n<td>R35<\/td>\n<td>2GB<\/td>\n<td>R120<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Unlimited 1 day (24 hours)<\/td>\n<td>R50<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<p>Bundle expiry also varies depending on the bundles, as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Once-off bundles expire 2 calendar months after they are activated;<\/li>\n<li>Anytime Minute recurring bundles: carry-over limited to 5x the bundle value;<\/li>\n<li>MTN to MTN Minute recurring bundles: 5x bundle value limit; and<\/li>\n<li>SMS recurring bundles: 2x bundle value limit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The terms &amp; conditions also state that My MTNChoice subscribers may not opt out of SMS notifications relating to their usage limits.<\/p>\n<p>In brief, these are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A warning when usage reaches a subscriber-defined triggering value. The default is R10 remaining.<\/li>\n<li>When the usage limit has been exhausted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MTN was asked whether an out-of-bundle limit of R0 could be set, and whether devices are offered on MTNChoice contracts, but the company did not respond by the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p><em>Contributing reporter: Daiyaan Edwards (@daiyaane)<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More cellular deals and mobile news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/88237-free-mtn-weekend-airtime-for-weekday-recharge.html\"><strong>Free MTN weekend airtime for weekday recharge<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/88069-telkom-mobile-completely-unlimited-officially-unveiled.html\"><strong>Telkom Mobile \u201cCompletely Unlimited\u201d officially unveiled<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/87617-r199month-for-uncapped-mobile-broadband.html\"><strong>R199\/month for uncapped mobile broadband<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/86907-mobile-data-promotions-industry-insider-speaks-out.html\"><strong>Mobile data promotions: industry insider speaks out<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/85177-afrihost-mobile-the-inside-story.html\"><strong>Afrihost Mobile \u2013 the inside story<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has unveiled a contract building tool with usage limiting functions on its website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":88391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[6845,35,42,21711,11507],"class_list":["post-88389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-cellphone-contracts","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-my-mtnchoice","tag-user-contract"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88389"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88393,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88389\/revisions\/88393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}