{"id":55796,"date":"2014-04-16T10:12:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-16T08:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=55796"},"modified":"2014-04-16T10:16:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-16T08:16:58","slug":"vodacom-to-respond-to-mtn-rate-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/55796\/vodacom-to-respond-to-mtn-rate-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom to respond to MTN rate cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Industry speculation suggests that Vodacom will respond to MTN\u2019s recently launched flat rate of 79c per minute across all networks for its prepaid customers.<\/p>\n<p>MTN\u2019s 79c prepaid promotion is available to all Pay Per Second price plan subscribers, and will be available until 9 July 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The price cut followed a reduction in call termination rates on 1 April 2014. However, when asked about the timing MTN did not answer the question directly, but said that consumer demand was behind its decision.<\/p>\n<p>All eyes are now on Vodacom and Cell C to see if they will follow suit \u2013 and if industry speculation is to be believed, Vodacom will make an announcement soon.<\/p>\n<p>Industry rumours suggest that Vodacom will reduce its prepaid call rates to match the 79c per minute promotion.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom was contacted for feedback regarding this issue, but the company could not immediately respond.<\/p>\n<p>This article was <a title=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/100746-vodacom-set-to-cut-prepaid-call-rates.html\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/100746-vodacom-set-to-cut-prepaid-call-rates.html\">first published on MyBroadband<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Vodacom<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><strong><a title=\"Permalink to MTN announces 79 cents call rates\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/55678\/mtn-announces-79-cents-call-rates\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">MTN announces 79 cents call rates<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Court ruling costs Vodacom R500 million\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/55230\/court-ruling-costs-vodacom-r500-million\/\"><strong>Court ruling costs Vodacom R500 million<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vodacom Neotel deal valued at $460 million\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/54929\/vodacom-neotel-deal-valued-at-460-million\/\"><strong>Vodacom Neotel deal valued at $460 million<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vodacom, Neotel deal hits a snag: report\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/55161\/vodacom-neotel-deal-hits-a-snag-report\/\"><strong>Vodacom, Neotel deal hits a snag: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom looks set to respond to MTN\u2019s recent 79c per minute prepaid call rate promotion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":54572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,28,6798,27],"class_list":["post-55796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-rate-cut","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55796","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=55796"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55798,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55796\/revisions\/55798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}