{"id":79949,"date":"2015-02-17T12:14:34","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T10:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=79949"},"modified":"2015-02-17T12:14:34","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T10:14:34","slug":"mtn-launches-r99-unlimited-cloud-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/79949\/mtn-launches-r99-unlimited-cloud-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN launches R99 unlimited cloud storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has launched a cloud storage service that will provide customers with unlimited storage capacity across a range of devices.<\/p>\n<p>The service, called MTN Cloud, will be available for R99 a month, payable with airtime and available to both pre-paid and post-paid customers.<\/p>\n<p>According to MTN, information stored on MTN Cloud is encrypted to ensure security and the stored data won\u2019t be screened, ensuring privacy.<\/p>\n<p>The software will allow users to sync data across all their devices (smartphones, tablets, or laptops), and users can \u201caccess stored data from any preferred devices anywhere, anytime\u201d, MTN said.<\/p>\n<p>Any file format can be stored including documents, pictures, videos, and audio files.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Signing up<\/h3>\n<p>To subscribe to this service, MTN customers need to visit mtncloud.mtn.co.za from a browser and enter an email address.<\/p>\n<p>Users will then receive an email with a link to complete the registration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce a customer cancels their subscription to MTN Cloud, they have a 30-day window period to log on and retrieve their documents,\u201d MTN said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCustomers may not be able to add any new documents during this period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To access data on mobile devices, an MTN Cloud app is available.<\/p>\n<p>The app is available on the Android and iOS operating systems, with compatibility on other operating systems still being finalised.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on MTN<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to MTN appoints new business risk executive\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/79121\/mtn-appoints-new-business-risk-executive\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">MTN appoints new business risk executive<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to MTN constantly retrenching workers: union\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/78598\/mtn-constantly-retrenching-workers-union\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">MTN constantly retrenching workers: union<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to MTN-backed solar firm raises $12.6 million\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/78371\/mtn-backed-solar-firm-raises-12-6-million\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">MTN-backed solar firm raises $12.6 million<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN has launched a cloud storage service that will provide customers with unlimited storage capacity across a range of devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":79951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[25,28,9497],"class_list":["post-79949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-active","tag-mtn","tag-mtn-cloud"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79949","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=79949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79955,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79949\/revisions\/79955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}