{"id":232959,"date":"2018-03-20T10:48:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T08:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=232959"},"modified":"2018-03-20T14:32:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T12:32:26","slug":"fnb-connect-slashes-once-off-data-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/232959\/fnb-connect-slashes-once-off-data-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"FNB Connect slashes data prices"},"content":{"rendered":"

FNB Connect has announced that it has repriced its data bundles to provide cost-effective solutions to customers.<\/p>\n

As of 19 March 2018, FNB Connect said that subscribers will receive savings of between 10% and 30% on once-off data bundle purchases for prepaid, postpaid top-up and flexi top-up packages.<\/p>\n

“This is part of our long-term commitment to minimise the burden of high data costs for our customers,” said Shadrack Palmer, CCO at FNB Connect.<\/p>\n

In the recent announcement of its interim results, the bank revealed that FNB Connect had grown its subscribers to 600,000 by December 2017.<\/p>\n

It also confirmed that it had seen a strong uptick during the 2017\/2018 festive season which saw it give away\u00a0up to 3.3 billion megabytes of data to customers who took up qualifying banking products through FNB\u2019s digital platforms.<\/p>\n

Since the festive season promotion, FNB Connect has seen a 65% increase in daily data usage with the overall data usage increasing by 76% in November to December 2017, said Palmer.<\/p>\n

“We firmly believe that this trend will continue as smartphone penetration continues to deepen in South Africa, and the integration of FNB Connect gives us the competitive edge to innovate on a greater scale through the use of vast big data capabilities from within FNB,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

FNB Connect\u2019s revised\u00a0once off-data pricing breakdown<\/strong>\u00a0is as follows:<\/p>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Once off data<\/th>\nOld price<\/th>\nNew price<\/th>\nChange<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
50 MB<\/td>\nR15<\/td>\nR13<\/td>\n-13%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
100 MB<\/td>\nR28<\/td>\nR25<\/td>\n-11%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
300 MB<\/td>\nR60<\/td>\nR60<\/td>\n0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
500 MB<\/td>\nR89<\/td>\nR75<\/td>\n-16%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1 GB<\/td>\nR139<\/td>\nR99<\/td>\n-29%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2 GB<\/td>\nR245<\/td>\nR179<\/td>\n-27%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5 GB<\/td>\nR399<\/td>\nR385<\/td>\n-4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10 GB<\/td>\nR699<\/td>\nR625<\/td>\n-11%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20 GB<\/td>\nR1 099<\/td>\nR950<\/td>\n-14%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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