{"id":102815,"date":"2015-11-02T12:27:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T10:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=102815"},"modified":"2015-11-02T12:27:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T10:27:14","slug":"fnb-connect-hits-100000-active-mobile-sims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/102815\/fnb-connect-hits-100000-active-mobile-sims\/","title":{"rendered":"FNB Connect hits 100,000 active mobile SIMs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FNB announced on 2 November that it has 100,000 active SIMs on its mobile network service. FNB launched its mobile service in June 2015.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t expect to hit the 100,000 active SIMs mark before the end of the year, but the strong uptake by customers is an indication there\u2019s a strong need for [the] service,\u201d said Ravesh Ramlakan, CEO of FNB Connect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c75% of the new SIMs are prepaid and 25% are post-paid, and 40% of customers fall within the 26-35 age.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>FNB said its Flexi month-to-month contract has received a positive response due to the fact that it can be tailored using sliders for data, voice, and SMS usage.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on FNB mobile<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to FNB mobile launch details, prices revealed\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/89600\/fnb-mobile-launch-details-prices-revealed\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">FNB mobile launch details, prices revealed<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to FNB mobile network is coming\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/86882\/fnb-mobile-network-is-coming-2\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">FNB mobile network is coming<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to FNB Mobile launching soon: sources\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/86364\/fnb-mobile-launching-soon-sources\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">FNB Mobile launching soon: sources<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to FNB set to launch its own mobile network\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/64518\/fnb-mobile-network-is-coming\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">FNB set to launch its own mobile network<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FNB has announced that it has 100,000 active SIMs on its mobile network service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":90556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,2332],"class_list":["post-102815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-fnb-connect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102817,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102815\/revisions\/102817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}