{"id":53813,"date":"2014-03-03T11:50:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-03T09:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=53813"},"modified":"2014-03-03T11:50:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T09:50:32","slug":"mtn-announces-standard-international-call-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/53813\/mtn-announces-standard-international-call-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN announces standard international call rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has standardised its international call rates across its prepaid, top up, and contract price plans, effective 1 March 2014.<\/p>\n<p>This follows the conclusion of the group&#8217;s previous \u201cLowest International Call Rates\u201d promotion, which ended on 28 February.<\/p>\n<p>MTN has announced new permanent rates, starting at 99 cents per minute, which aren\u2019t quite as low as the previous promo prices.<\/p>\n<p>The rates are charged as per second rates, and will automatically apply to all MTN customers throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>MTN said that customers will be able to view the applicable call rate to their chosen destination by dialling *111*2# on their mobile device, or by <a title=\"MTN International rates\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mtn.co.za\/everyday_services\/RoamingInternational\/Pages\/MakingInternationalCalls.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">visiting the MTN website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on MTN<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"We want to reduce prices: MTN\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/53163\/we-want-to-reduce-prices-mtn\/\"><strong>We want to reduce prices: MTN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MTN makes good on legal threats against Icasa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/53106\/mtn-makes-good-on-legal-threats-against-icasa\/\"><strong>MTN makes good on legal threats against Icasa<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has standardised its international call rates across its prepaid, top up, and contract price plans, effective 1 March 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":50801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,5924,28],"class_list":["post-53813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-international-calls","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53813","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=53813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53816,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53813\/revisions\/53816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}