{"id":367682,"date":"2020-01-22T09:28:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T07:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=367682"},"modified":"2020-01-22T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T07:28:05","slug":"mtn-launches-tiktok-data-bundles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/367682\/mtn-launches-tiktok-data-bundles\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN launches TikTok data bundles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has launched dedicated TikTok data bundles, ranging from R5 for a daily bundle of 100MB to R50 for a monthly bundle of 1GB.<\/p>\n<p>This launch follows MTN SA CEO Godfrey Motsa promising customers last year that MTN would cater for the growing number of TikTok users in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>TikTok is an app dedicated to short video content and has surpassed 1 billion and 1.5 billion global downloads on the App Store and Google Play Store respectively.<\/p>\n<p>MTN said that while no official figures are available to measure the app\u2019s popularity in South Africa, videos categorised using the hashtag #tiktoksouthafrica have in excess of 400 million views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have heard our customers and hope that the launch of these bundles will enable them to make the most of what is arguably the fastest growing social platform amongst the youth,\u201d said Jacqui \u2018O Sullivan, Corporate Affairs Executive at MTN SA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committed to providing products and solutions that resonate with our customers, and the introduction of our TikTok bundles is another such offering.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/367648\/uber-test-lets-some-drivers-set-their-own-fares\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Uber test lets some drivers set their own fares<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has launched dedicated TikTok data bundles, ranging from R5 for a daily bundle of 100MB to R50 for a monthly bundle of 1GB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":367684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,28,14646],"class_list":["post-367682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-tiktok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367682","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=367682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367686,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367682\/revisions\/367686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}