{"id":84731,"date":"2015-04-11T14:03:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T12:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=84731"},"modified":"2015-04-10T15:04:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T13:04:03","slug":"telkom-to-increase-line-rental-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/84731\/telkom-to-increase-line-rental-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Telkom to increase line rental prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has announced its home line rental prices will increase from R166 per month to R189 per month from 1 May 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The latest 14% price increase follows an increase from R157 per month to R166.50 per month in 1 August 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom said in communications to subscribers that while \u201clandline rental has gone up, you can enjoy unlimited calls if you move to the Evening &amp; Weekend plan for only R17 extra per month\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Telkom\u2019s fixed-line calling plans have mostly stayed unchanged, which means these subscribers are not affected by the price increase.<\/p>\n<p>However, all ADSL subscribers will be affected by the R23 per month line rental price increase.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Telkom-new-prices-1-May-2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84733\" src=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Telkom-new-prices-1-May-2015.jpg\" alt=\"Telkom-new-prices-1-May-2015\" width=\"627\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Telkom-new-prices-1-May-2015.jpg 627w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Telkom-new-prices-1-May-2015-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on telcos in SA<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom pushes ahead with \u2018voluntary\u2019 retrenchments\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/84017\/telkom-pushes-ahead-with-voluntary-retrenchments\/\"><strong>Telkom pushes ahead with \u2018voluntary\u2019 retrenchments<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Telkom is closing stores\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/79878\/telkom-is-closing-stores\/\"><strong>Telkom is closing stores<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vodacom contract prices increase\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/83573\/vodacom-contract-prices-increase\/\"><strong>Vodacom contract prices increase<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telkom has announced its home line rental prices will increase from 1 May 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":69183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[26,65],"class_list":["post-84731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-headline","tag-telkom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84731","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84735,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84731\/revisions\/84735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}