{"id":41768,"date":"2013-07-11T10:41:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T08:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=41768"},"modified":"2013-07-11T10:45:01","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T08:45:01","slug":"telkom-mobile-heats-up-prepaid-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/41768\/telkom-mobile-heats-up-prepaid-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom Mobile heats up prepaid competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom Mobile has launched its SIM-Sonke pre-paid tariff plan, offering subscribers a 29c per min on-net call rate.<\/p>\n<p>The rate is charged on a per-second basis, and the plan offers 75c per minute to other networks (per-second billing).<\/p>\n<p>SIM-Sonke also carries a data rate of 29c\/MB.<\/p>\n<p>National and international roaming is not available on this tariff plan, though international calls can be made, and SMS and MMS can be sent by SIM-Sonke subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribers are offered a number of recharge incentives on SIM-Sonke as well:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recharges between R5 to R19.99 get 5 free on-net SMS messages valid for the same day of the recharge, as well as free evening calls to other SIM-Sonke numbers valid from 21:00 to 06:00.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Recharges of R20 and over qualify for 20 free SMS messages valid for 7 days, expiring at 23:59 on the 7th day. Subscribers also get free evening calls to other SIM-Sonke numbers for 7 days if they recharge for R20 or more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Recharges done after 21:00 but before midnight get the free evening call benefits immediately.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>BlackBerry Internet Services for older BlackBerry devices are not available on SIM-Sonke.<\/p>\n<p>The SIM-Sonke starter pack costs R0.99 and contains two SIM cards that must both be registered under RICA before they will be activated. Mobile number ports are also supported.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a promotional rate, but a standard rate, Telkom Mobile said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Telkom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom a re-run of the same movie: Analyst\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/40094\/telkom-a-re-run-of-the-same-movie-analyst\/\"><strong>Telkom a re-run of the same movie: Analyst<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom earnings sink\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/39973\/telkom-earnings-sink\/\"><strong>Telkom earnings sink\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Sipho Maseko the new Telkom CEO\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/34544\/sipho-maseko-the-new-telkom-ceo\/\"><strong>Sipho Maseko the new Telkom CEO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom impairs R12 billion in assets\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/39759\/telkom-impairs-r12-billion-in-assets\/\"><strong>Telkom impairs R12 billion in assets<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom appoints head of strategy\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/37719\/telkom-appoints-head-of-strategy\/\"><strong>Telkom appoints head of strategy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom Mobile has launched its SIM-Sonke pre-paid tariff plan, offering subscribers a 29c per min on-net call rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":41774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[6290,243,26,1641,65,1075],"class_list":["post-41768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-calls","tag-data","tag-headline","tag-prepaid","tag-telkom","tag-telkom-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41768","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=41768"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41770,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41768\/revisions\/41770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}