{"id":91209,"date":"2013-11-06T17:11:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T15:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=91209"},"modified":"2013-11-07T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T07:00:09","slug":"fnb-smart-devices-limit-increased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/91209-fnb-smart-devices-limit-increased.html","title":{"rendered":"FNB smart devices limit increased"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First National Bank (<a title=\"FNB\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/307757-FNB-First-National-Bank\">FNB<\/a>) now lets qualifying clients finance up to 4 devices through its smart device promotion.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the word from <a title=\"Kartik Mistry\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/374424-Kartik-Mistry\">Kartik Mistry<\/a>, head of FNB&#8217;s Smart Devices unit.<\/p>\n<p>Mistry explained that customers can now have a maximum of 4 active devices on their profile, where &#8220;active&#8221; means you are still paying off a device over a 24-month term.<\/p>\n<p>Mistry\u00a0said that this applies only to the products FNB currently lists online and not necessarily to future products.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_90889\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-90889\" class=\"size-full wp-image-90889\" alt=\"Kartik Mistry\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Kartik-Mistry.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Kartik-Mistry.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Kartik-Mistry-250x166.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-90889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kartik Mistry<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Asked whether there are any restrictions on which 4 devices a client may have active at any one time, Mistry said that the only limit is that they allow only 1 iPhone per customer.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in the number of devices that FNB cheque and private banking clients can buy through the bank comes shortly after <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/59533-fnb-xbox-360-bundles-offered-to-customers.html\" target=\"_blank\">FNB introduced a deal for Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox 360 gaming console<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Mistry also previously said that they will offer the <a title=\"FNB to offer PS4, Xbox One deals\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/59836-fnb-to-offer-ps4-xbox-one-deals.html\" target=\"_blank\">PlayStation 4 and Xbox One video game consoles<\/a> when they become available in South Africa.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More FNB news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/90885-fnb-smart-device-offers-more-to-come.html\"><strong>FNB Smart Device offers \u2013 more to come<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/84999-fnb-in-chat-money-transfer-patent.html\"><strong>FNB in-chat money transfer patent<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/84409-dotfnb-branches-intro-mobile-accessories.html\"><strong>dotFNB branches intro mobile accessories<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/adsl\/83523-fnb-uncapped-adsl-pricing-and-details.html\"><strong>FNB uncapped ADSL: pricing and details<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First National Bank has increased the single device restriction on its smartphone, tablet, laptop, and console financing promotions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":83659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10106],"tags":[18390,35,5894,123,18030,193,4670,19572],"class_list":["post-91209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-first-national-bank-fnb","tag-headline","tag-kartik-mistry","tag-microsoft","tag-playstation-4","tag-sony","tag-xbox-360","tag-xbox-one"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91209"}],"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=91209"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91233,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91209\/revisions\/91233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}