{"id":708818,"date":"2023-08-03T10:08:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T08:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=708818"},"modified":"2023-08-03T10:08:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T08:08:09","slug":"mtn-launches-new-r49-disney-mobile-plan-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/708818\/mtn-launches-new-r49-disney-mobile-plan-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN launches new R49 Disney+ mobile plan in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>South African mobile operator MTN has launched a new mobile plan in partnership with Disney+.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MTN will offer a bundle to its customers who sign up for a Disney+ Mobile Plan at the cost of R49. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If customers pay for the bundle with their airtime or add it to their monthly bill, they will get 500MB of free streaming data per month, the operator said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MTN said customers will also be able to get a Disney+ mobile entertainment pass that will include 2GB of streaming data for R59 per month. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Disney+ Mobile Plan with MTN offers the same access to Disney+\u2019s catalogue of content from the streamer\u2019s brands of Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, as well as general entertainment from Star. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Using mobile phones and tablets, subscribers will have access to features such as SD data-saver streaming, as well as including the feature for parents to set kids profiles to access age-appropriate content,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jason Probert, MTN SA General Manager for Digital Services said that the partnership opens MTN and Disney+ for further offers, alluding to more products for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We look forward to pursuing many additional features for our customers,&#8221; he said. MTN said that plans are in development for further Disney+ offers for MTN customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Disney said the partnership gives South Africans another way to watch Disney+ content in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Customers will have access to newly released films and series, including Marvel Studios\u2019 \u201cSecret Invasion\u201d starring Samuel L. Jackson, \u201cAvatar: The Way of Water\u201d, the Disney+ Original anthology series \u201cKizazi Moto: Generation Fire\u201d, as well as the original comedy series \u201cOnly Murders in the Building\u201d, with \u201cThe Kardashians\u201d, \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d and back seasons of \u201cGrey\u2019s Anatomy\u201d, \u201c9-1-1\u201d and \u201cBlack-ish\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/708082\/new-licences-coming-for-netflix-disney-plus-and-other-streaming-services-in-south-africa\/\">New licences coming for Netflix, Disney Plus and other streaming services in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has partnered with Disney to offer Disney+ streaming packages to its customers in South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":615675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[4498,26,28],"class_list":["post-708818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-disney","tag-headline","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708818","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=708818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":708824,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708818\/revisions\/708824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}