{"id":56667,"date":"2014-05-02T10:07:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T08:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=56667"},"modified":"2014-05-02T10:07:22","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T08:07:22","slug":"mtn-launches-free-twitter-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/56667\/mtn-launches-free-twitter-service\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN launches free Twitter service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN South Africa has revamped its internet offering by introducing several new packages including free access to social media site, Twitter, across prepaid, contract and hybrid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The solutions that MTN is bringing to the market today enable customers of any type and<br \/>\nbudget to make the most out of their feature-phone, smartphone or tablet. The focus is on getting the most out of the connected experience, and not worrying about bits and bytes,&#8221; said Brian Gouldie, CMO of MTN South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The revamped offerings include MTN Internet Explore (at a cost of R10), MTN Chat (R15), MTN Social Networking (R19), MTN Smartphone Lite (R29) and MTN Smartphone Plus (R39).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe services are designed to enable world-class chat, social and browsing experiences at<br \/>\nan affordable price,&#8221; said Gouldie.<\/p>\n<p>All services include free access to Twitter (until 31 July 2014), and free access to the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia via the Opera Mini browser.<\/p>\n<p>The new services provide MTN PayAsYouGo subscribers with a calendar month of validity, while TopUp, MyMTNChoice and Contract customers will receive access for one billing cycle, MTN said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on MTN<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"MTN offers cheap Internet for feature phones\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/50800\/mtn-launches-internet-for-feature-phones\/\"><strong>MTN offers cheap Internet for feature phones<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MTN offers free Wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/53129\/mtn-offers-free-wikipedia\/\"><strong>MTN offers free Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"MTN unveils new business website\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/46950\/mtn-unveils-new-business-website\/\">MTN unveils new business website<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN South Africa has revamped its internet offering by introducing several new packages including free access to Twitter across prepaid, contract and hybrid. <\/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":[26,28,93],"class_list":["post-56667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56667","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=56667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56687,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56667\/revisions\/56687"}],"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=56667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}