{"id":518154,"date":"2021-09-03T06:57:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T04:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=518154"},"modified":"2021-09-03T07:28:13","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T05:28:13","slug":"mtn-business-is-leading-the-way-towards-universally-accessible-higher-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/industry-news\/518154\/mtn-business-is-leading-the-way-towards-universally-accessible-higher-education\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN Business is leading the way towards universally-accessible higher education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN Business is making huge strides towards providing more young South Africans with higher education opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>It is very proud of its accomplishments to improve tertiary education access in the country, and is delighted to be partnered with the national government on this journey.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtnbusiness.co.za\/en\/Mobile-Solutions\/Pages\/RT15.aspx?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_campaign=August+2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about MTN Business\u2019s uncapped data solutions for higher education institutions, teachers, and students.<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Through this partnership, MTN Business has enabled remote learning for thousands of South African students during the national lockdown, ensuring these learners could continue to learn and that they will be prepared for the working world.<\/p>\n<p>These students have been able to access their learning materials using South Africa\u2019s best mobile network, MTN, while MTN Business has also helped campuses host all of their resources online.<\/p>\n<p>A connection between learners and teachers extends beyond accessing resources, however, and MTN Business has made it easy for learners to get in touch with their educators &#8211; and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>MTN Business\u2019s work has therefore made it possible for academic institutions and their learners to keep running smoothly \u2013 even as physical campuses have been closed.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Reducing costs<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The benefits MTN Business provides do not end there, as the cost of accessing many important academic resources has been removed.<\/p>\n<p>This was achieved through zero rating and reverse billing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Zero-rated websites <\/strong>are completely free to access &#8211; so they will not consume your airtime or data.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reverse billing <\/strong>sees the other entity (in this case, your higher education institution) pick up the data charges you incur.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both of these services have taken the cost of learning out of the students\u2019 hands and have been crucial to helping young South Africans continue their studies during the national lockdown.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong>Uncapped services<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>MTN Business is working hard to provide even more young South Africans with easy access to tertiary education through its successful partnership with the national government.<\/p>\n<p>In this regard, one of MTN Business\u2019s key focuses is providing uncapped connectivity services to higher education institutions, as well as to their teachers and learners, so they have all the tools they need for the best possible education.<\/p>\n<p>MTN Business can help these tertiary organisations, as well as their staff and students, to access uncapped data for work purposes through its RT15 access programme \u2013 which forms a key part of its partnership with the South African government.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtnbusiness.co.za\/en\/Mobile-Solutions\/Pages\/RT15.aspx?utm_source=BusinessTech&amp;utm_medium=Article&amp;utm_campaign=August+2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to learn more about these uncapped data possibilities for higher education institutions.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN Business is making huge strides towards providing more young South Africans with higher education opportunities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":518156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10459],"tags":[1019],"class_list":["post-518154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-mtn-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518154","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\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518184,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518154\/revisions\/518184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}