{"id":1883,"date":"2016-02-15T15:11:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T07:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/15\/company-gives-away-free-data-so-users-download-1841-terabytes\/"},"modified":"2016-02-15T15:11:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T07:11:28","slug":"company-gives-away-free-data-so-users-download-1841-terabytes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/15\/company-gives-away-free-data-so-users-download-1841-terabytes\/","title":{"rendered":"Company gives away free data, so users download 1,841 terabytes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Telstra\"<\/p>\n

\"Feed-tw\"<\/a>\"Feed-fb\"<\/a><\/div>\n

Phone company giveth, customers taketh.<\/p>\n

Australian telecommunications company Telstra made good on a promise on Sunday, giving mobile customers a day of free data as part of an apology for the outages experienced on mobile and Internet services nationwide last Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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See also: The mystery of an Australian letter found in an abandoned house in South Dakota<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Telstra said on its support page<\/a> that it would not place restrictions on the amount of data a user could take advantage of on Sunday. Australians took this as meaning they should download everything in sight<\/p>\n

The company announced Monday that customers didn’t hold back when it came to downloads on Telstra’s cellular network, amassing a total of 1,841 terabytes<\/a> of data during the free-for-all extravaganza. It’s equivalent to 5.1 million episodes of Game Of Thrones<\/em>, or 23 million downloaded copies of Kanye West’s new The Life Of Pablo<\/em> album, Telstra said in a statement. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

More about Australia<\/a>, Telstra<\/a>, Tech<\/a>, and Mobile<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Phone company giveth, customers taketh. Australian telecommunications company Telstra made good on a promise on Sunday, giving mobile customers a day of free data as part of an apology for the outages experienced on mobile and Internet services nationwide last … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[728,803,725,1135],"class_list":["post-1883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-australia","tag-mobile","tag-tech","tag-telstra"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}