{"id":120210,"date":"2017-08-27T12:30:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T10:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=120210"},"modified":"2017-08-25T14:45:55","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T12:45:55","slug":"the-fair-usage-limits-on-telkoms-lit-media-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/120210-the-fair-usage-limits-on-telkoms-lit-media-platform","title":{"rendered":"The fair usage limits on Telkom&#8217;s LIT media platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom will launch its new media platform, LIT, on 1 September, offering FreeMe contract subscribers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/225160-free-netflix-streaming-on-telkom-freeme-contracts.html\"><strong>free music and video streaming<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0from selected services.<\/p>\n<p>LIT Music is available to contract subscribers on FreeMe 2GB and greater, while LIT Video will be on FreeMe 5GB packages and up.<\/p>\n<p>Both LIT services will be enabled by default on the accounts of qualifying customers.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Fair use<\/h3>\n<p>Telkom told MyBroadband that LIT will be governed by a fair use policy, but that the usage thresholds are set with the aim that they should not limit subscribers.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>For LIT Music<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 the fair use threshold is\u00a0<strong>10GB<\/strong>\u00a0per month.<\/li>\n<li><strong>For LIT Video<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 the fair use threshold is\u00a0<strong>50GB<\/strong>\u00a0per month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Telkom estimates that the 50GB video limit is enough for subscribers to watch two full-length movies on their phones each day.<\/p>\n<p>In the event that a subscriber hits the limit, Telkom said its fair use policy will work similarly to a soft cap.<\/p>\n<p>Situations will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, and subscribers may be allowed to go over the threshold.<\/p>\n<p>At launch, LIT Music will zero-rate traffic from the following services:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Google Play Music<\/li>\n<li>Apple Music<\/li>\n<li>iTunes<\/li>\n<li>Simfy Africa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Services that will be zero-rated as part of Telkom LIT Video at launch are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Netflix<\/li>\n<li>Showmax<\/li>\n<li>YouTube<\/li>\n<li>Google Play Movies<\/li>\n<li>iTunes<\/li>\n<li>DStv BoxOffice<\/li>\n<li>DStv Now<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Subscriptions and content from the streaming services must be purchased separately, said Telkom.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/telecoms\/224344-how-telkom-became-cool.html\">How Telkom became cool<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom will launch its new media platform, LIT, on 1 September, offering FreeMe contract subscribers\u00a0free music and video streaming\u00a0from selected services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":88165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812,9],"tags":[24978,287],"class_list":["post-120210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","category-entertainment","tag-lit","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}