{"id":7348,"date":"2012-03-07T22:17:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T22:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=7348"},"modified":"2012-03-08T05:29:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T05:29:35","slug":"new-prepaid-deal-for-8ta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/7348\/new-prepaid-deal-for-8ta\/","title":{"rendered":"New prepaid deal for 8ta?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/276092-8ta\" target=\"_blank\">8ta<\/a> is rumoured to be in discussions around prepaid SIM card distribution, which will focus on the consumer market.<\/p>\n<p>According to a well placed industry source, 8ta may well partner with multiple parties to target different market segments, and boost their market share.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227037-Telkom\" target=\"_blank\">Telkom<\/a>\/8ta could not comment on the potential deal, saying that such discussions may be competitor-sensitive, and may not materialize.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c8ta continuously engages third parties on new products. 8ta is not in a position to discuss products that are in the concept phase as this is competitor sensitive and may not materialise beyond the conceptual stage,\u201d Telkom said.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom previously confirmed a deal with <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/233831-Blue-Label-Telecoms\" target=\"_blank\">Blue Label Telecoms<\/a>, which involved the distribution of 100,000 hybrid 8ta contracts &#8211; with R100 airtime per month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe performance of this deal more than exceeds 8.ta\u2019s standard \u2018Saver\u2019 contracts, and the top-up value on average exceeds 40% of the contracted R100, without considering the incoming call interconnection benefit,\u201d Telkom said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Blue Label Telecom secret payment\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/7259\/r79-4-million-secret-payment-where-did-it-come-from\/\"><strong>Blue Label Teleccom secret payment<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8ta is rumoured to be in negotiations with prepaid SIM card distributors, which may boost the company\u2019s footprint in the consumer market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[407,1382,26,65],"class_list":["post-7348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-8ta","tag-blue-label-telecoms","tag-headline","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7348"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7405,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7348\/revisions\/7405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}