{"id":30491,"date":"2012-01-11T10:34:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T08:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=30491"},"modified":"2012-01-11T16:14:35","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T14:14:35","slug":"8ta-60gb60gb-mobile-data-promotion-uncovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/30491-8ta-60gb60gb-mobile-data-promotion-uncovered","title":{"rendered":"8ta 60GB+60GB mobile data promotion uncovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users with SIM cards provisioned to work exclusively on the <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20297-8ta\">8ta<\/a> network have reported seeing a new 60GB+60GB promotional package for R1,800 in the *180# pre-paid data bundle USSD menu.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the structure of its previous promotions, this suggests that users will get 60GB of data to use any time and 60GB \u201cmidnight surfer\u201d cap to use between 00:00 and 05:00.<\/p>\n<p>Taking only the \u201canytime\u201d data into account, this comes to a per-gigabyte price of R30\/GB. At this price point, 8ta is competing well with ADSL products, let alone other mobile networks.<\/p>\n<p>Promotions similar to this one also typically only work on the 8ta network and can\u2019t make use of the roaming agreement the operator has with <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20295-Mtn\">MTN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What isn\u2019t clear at this stage is whether this promotion will be subject to 8ta\u2019s normal prepaid data bundle validity period. Data bundles are valid for a maximum of 60 days, expiring at the end of the month following the month in which it was purchased.<\/p>\n<p>8ta has refused to answer questions about the promotion, saying that they will issue a press release about the promotion at 12:00 today (11 January 2012).<\/p>\n<p><em>Article courtesy of MyBroadband &#8211; <a title=\"8ta 60GB+60GB promotion\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/41039-8ta-60gb60gb-promotion.html\">8ta 60GB+60GB promotion<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom\u2019s consumer mobile arm has launched a new promotion that they\u2019re calling the \u201c60GB+60GB Promo\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":163,"featured_media":30492,"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":[2],"tags":[1923,31,1924],"class_list":["post-30491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-8ta","tag-active","tag-amith-maharaj"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30491","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\/163"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30493,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30491\/revisions\/30493"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}