{"id":74038,"date":"2014-11-20T15:22:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T13:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=74038"},"modified":"2014-11-20T15:24:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-20T13:24:10","slug":"telkom-offers-free-dstv-exploras-for-broadband-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/74038\/telkom-offers-free-dstv-exploras-for-broadband-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom offers a free DStv Explora for broadband customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom is offering a free DStv Explora decoder with its SmartHome Premium package for R899 per month on a 24 month contract.<\/p>\n<p>The offer is available from 22 November 2014 to new and existing Telkom customers, the group said on Thursday (20 November 2014).<\/p>\n<p>The news <a title=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/73660\/telkom-in-broadband-deal-with-multichoice\/\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/73660\/telkom-in-broadband-deal-with-multichoice\/\" target=\"_blank\">emerged earlier this week<\/a> that Telkom would offer free DStv Explora decoders to subscribers that take up 10Mbps or faster DSL services on a 24-month contract.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom said that this offer applies to existing subscribers that upgrade to 10Mbps (or faster) lines, or new customers that take up 10Mbps (or faster) services from 23 November 2014.<\/p>\n<p>According to Telkom, it has entered into an exclusive deal with MultiChoice to offer these packages, and it added that it will also sell the Explora and the DStv Wi-Fi Connector from its stores.<\/p>\n<p>Customers will be able to get the DStv Explora for R1,999, and the DStv WiFi Connector for R399, Telkom said.<\/p>\n<p>Customers will need to link their DStv Explora to their existing internet router, either by Ethernet cable or using the DStv WiFi Connector to enable these new services.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Telkom<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom strikes broadband deal with MultiChoice\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/73660\/telkom-in-broadband-deal-with-multichoice\/\"><strong>Telkom strikes broadband deal with MultiChoice<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom in DStv BoxOffice partnership\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/70131\/telkom-in-dstv-boxoffice-partnership\/\"><strong>Telkom in DStv BoxOffice partnership<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom hints at DStv deal\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/61489\/telkom-hints-at-dstv-deal\/\"><strong>Telkom hints at DStv deal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom to reveal content plans\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/69771\/telkom-teases-content-plans\/\"><strong>Telkom to reveal content plans<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom is offering a free DStv Explora decoder with its SmartHome Premium package for R899 per month on a 24 month contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":61577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[78,26,65],"class_list":["post-74038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-dstv","tag-headline","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74038","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=74038"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74048,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74038\/revisions\/74048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}