{"id":142628,"date":"2016-11-08T10:44:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-08T08:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=142628"},"modified":"2016-11-08T10:44:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-08T08:44:05","slug":"fnb-mobile-shows-growth-in-subscriber-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/142628\/fnb-mobile-shows-growth-in-subscriber-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"FNB mobile shows growth in subscriber numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banking group First National Bank (FNB) notes continued growth in the number of subscribers for its mobile network service since launch a little over a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>According to Shadrack Palmer, chief commercial officer for FNB Connect, in August 2016, FNB had over 400,000 subscribers for its mobile network service, up from 200,000 subscribers in April.<\/p>\n<p>FNB launched its service in June 2015. Additional MVNOs in South Africa include Virgin Mobile, me&amp;you mobile and Mr Price Mobile.<\/p>\n<p>Established players include Vodacom which has approximately 35 million local subscribers, MTN, with 30 million, Cell C, with 20 million, and Telkom Mobile, with 2.7 million customers.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on FNB<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/121763\/fnb-reveals-mobile-subscriber-numbers\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>FNB reveals mobile subscriber numbers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/102815\/fnb-connect-hits-100000-active-mobile-sims\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>FNB Connect hits 100,000 active mobile SIMs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banking group First National Bank (FNB) notes continued growth in the number of subscribers for its mobile network service since launch a little over a year ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,76],"class_list":["post-142628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-fnb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142628","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142630,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142628\/revisions\/142630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}