{"id":275345,"date":"2018-10-04T13:23:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T11:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=275345"},"modified":"2018-10-04T13:23:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T11:23:53","slug":"mtn-launches-new-entertainment-pass-bundles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/275345\/mtn-launches-new-entertainment-pass-bundles\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN launches new Entertainment Pass bundles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has launched new Entertainment Pass bundles for contract customers, which provide free data access to social media, music and video streaming.<\/p>\n<p>The Entertainment Pass gives customers on select price plans access to Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, YouTube, Deezer, Simfy Africa, DStv Now and ShowMax for free.<\/p>\n<p>MTN said that the promotion is available to contract customers who sign up for a new contract, or to those who upgrade to selected plans.<\/p>\n<p>The list of plans include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>MTNChoice Flexi;<\/li>\n<li>My MTNChoice Data;<\/li>\n<li>MTN Made For Me;<\/li>\n<li>MTN Made For Home;<\/li>\n<li>My MTN Sky Lite;<\/li>\n<li>MTN Made For Business price plans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Entertainment Pass values are 5GB and 14GB, depending on the price plan selected, and are valid for 30 days from the time the contract or upgrade is activated.<\/p>\n<p>However, customers who have signed up from 1 October until 14 October will only receive their Entertainment Pass on 15 October.<\/p>\n<p>The Entertainment Pass is also broken down into data value per social, video or music platforms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to give our customers more for less and one of the best ways to achieve this is by making it easier and more cost-effective for our customers to access the entertainment they love,&#8221; said Jacqui O\u2019Sullivan, executive for Corporate Affairs at MTN SA.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being unconnected is unacceptable because we all want our connections, our music and our videos to be always on, so we\u2019ve created a way for our customers to stay connected \u2013 without worrying about data balances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The promotion will run until the end of January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a breakdown of the Entertainment Pass that a customer will get, based on the price plan they\u2019ve selected.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MTN-Entertainment-Pass.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-275347 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MTN-Entertainment-Pass.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MTN-Entertainment-Pass.jpg 524w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MTN-Entertainment-Pass-300x185.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 524px) 100vw, 524px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/275317\/sim-swap-fraud-incidents-more-than-double-in-south-africa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SIM-swap fraud incidents more than double in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has launched new Entertainment Pass bundles for contract customers which provide free data access to social media, music and video streaming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":209847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,28],"class_list":["post-275345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-headline","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275345","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=275345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275357,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275345\/revisions\/275357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}