{"id":96087,"date":"2014-02-03T21:38:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T19:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=96087"},"modified":"2014-02-04T09:47:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T07:47:28","slug":"1100-increase-on-vodacom-multi-data-sims-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/96087-1100-increase-on-vodacom-multi-data-sims-price.html","title":{"rendered":"1000% increase on Vodacom Multi Data SIMs price"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vodacom<\/a> has hiked the price of Multi Data-SIMs from R9\/month to R29\/month for voice contract customers and R99\/month for data contract customers, MyBroadband has learned.<\/p>\n

Subscribers that already have Multi Data-SIMs will continue to pay the R9 per SIM per month, but any new activations will attract the new fees as of 31 January 2014.<\/p>\n

Those on Vodacom’s “Red” plans (which start at R999\/month), will also still get two free Multi Data-SIM (MDS) activations on their accounts<\/p>\n

News of Vodacom\u2019s Multi Data-SIM<\/a> offering emerged during March 2011, allowing Vodacom contract customers to add up to four additional subscriber identity modules (SIMs) to their accounts.<\/p>\n

While each SIM has its own number, they are all able to make use of a single account\u2019s data bundle. BlackBerry Internet Service can also only be active on one of the SIMs at a time.<\/p>\n

At the time, Vodacom said that the R9 per SIM per month fee was promotional.<\/p>\n

It is worth noting that at R99\/month, Vodacom has priced its MDS service for data contract subscribers at the same level as its 2GB data contract promotion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Vodacom was asked about the price increases of its MDS service, but was not immediately able to comment.<\/p>\n

More Vodacom and data contract news<\/h3>\n

Vodacom Multi Data SIM: 5 SIMs per contract<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Paying more for wholesale than retail not cool: ISP<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Beware bundled mobile data, tablet deal prices<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Vodacom slashes broadband prices<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vodacom has quietly increased the monthly price of multi data SIMs 11-fold, or 1000%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":73750,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[35,23495,20913,41],"class_list":["post-96087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-multi-data-sim-mds","tag-subscriber-identity-module-sim","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96087"}],"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=96087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96095,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96087\/revisions\/96095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}