{"id":411929,"date":"2020-06-30T08:36:44","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T06:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=411929"},"modified":"2020-06-30T08:50:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T06:50:39","slug":"mtn-launches-5g-heres-what-it-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/411929\/mtn-launches-5g-heres-what-it-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN launches 5G &#8211; here&#8217;s what it costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has launched its new 5G service in Gauteng, Western Cape, and Free State with data plans from 75GB to 500GB.<\/p>\n<p>The service is offered in two variants \u2013 5G home Wi-Fi and 5G mobile.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>5G home Wi-Fi<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 This home-connected plug and play solution connects Wi-Fi-enabled devices.<\/li>\n<li><strong>5G mobile<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Connect to MTN\u2019s 5G network and enjoy fast connectivity at home or on the go.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>5G home Wi-Fi promises average speeds of 100Mbps and peak speeds of 500Mbps, while 5G mobile offers average speeds of 50Mbps and peak speeds of 500Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>MTN\u2019s 5G is currently available in Bryanston and Honeydew in Gauteng, Blouberg in Cape Town, and Universitas in Bloemfontein.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re rolling out 5G across South Africa, and soon you\u2019ll have 5G coverage everywhere you go,\u201d MTN said.<\/p>\n<p>MTN is offering three 5G phones to South Africans \u2013 the Huawei P40 Pro, Huawei P40, and LG Velvet 5G.<\/p>\n<p>For its 5G home Wi-Fi service, it is offering the Huawei CPE Pro 2 5G, Huawei MC801A 5G, and ZTE 6878.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5G data plans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MTN is offering a wide range of 24-month and 36-month data plans priced between R499 and R1,599 per month.<\/p>\n<p>The company is also offering unlimited data plans for R999 on a 36-month contract and R1,249 on a 24-month contract.<\/p>\n<p>A fair usage policy of 200GB per month applies to the MTN Unlimited 5G packages, and the launch promotion pricing is only valid until 31 July 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The pricing is detailed in the table below. All prices reflect SIM-only packages, except for the Unlimited products which include a 5G router.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bt_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" colspan=\"5\" bgcolor=\"#AAAAAA\">MTN 5G Data Plans<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"20%\">Plan<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"20%\">Anytime Data<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"20%\">Night Express<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"20%\">Price (24-month)<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align: center;\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\" width=\"20%\">Price (36-month)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">75GB<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">75GB<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">75GB<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>R699<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>R499<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">100GB<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">100GB<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">100GB<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>R799<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>R599<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">200GB<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">200GB<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">200GB<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>R1 099<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>R849<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">300GB<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">300GB<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">300GB<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>R1 199<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>R949<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">400GB<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">400GB<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">400GB<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>R1 399<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>R1 099<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">500GB<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">500GB<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">500GB<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>R1 599<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>R1 299<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Unlimited<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Unlimited, with FUP<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Unlimited, with FUP<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>R1 249<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>R999<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This article was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/5g\/358045-mtn-5g-is-here-prices-and-coverage.html\">first published by MyBroadband<\/a><\/strong>. Check the original for coverage maps.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/404245\/mtn-plots-new-5g-network-in-june\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">MTN plots new 5G network in June<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has launched its new 5G service in Gauteng, Western Cape, and Free State with data plans from 75GB to 500GB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":411955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[26,28],"class_list":["post-411929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-headline","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411929","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=411929"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":411953,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411929\/revisions\/411953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/411955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}