Third mobile operator Cell C has extended its current contract and prepaid data promotions and hinted at more announcements around broadband pricing in the next few weeks. The company said on Tuesday that it would extend promotions which were meant to expire at the end of July
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If anyone needs confirmation that there is a price war going on in SA’s cellphone sector, a quick look at last Sunday’s newspapers will confirm it. Take the Sunday Times, for example. In the first 16 pages of news last week, five pages had huge advertisements from Cell C, Vodacom and MTN
The department of trade & industry released its black economic empowerment (BEE) charter for the technology sector last month and it takes force with immediate effect. Although some companies in the sector already comply, others will have to move quickly if they’re to meet its stringent requirements
The resignation last week of Vodacom Group CEO Pieter Uys raises interesting questions about the future of SA’s most powerful mobile phone operator under the UK’s Vodafone, especially as it faces an increasingly fractious and competitive industry. When
Cell C is set to become the third mobile operator in SA to stock the iPhone. The company has begun taking pre-orders for the iPhone 4S, the latest iteration of Apple’s smartphone, on its website. Until now, consumers interested in buying an iPhone have had to get it through either Vodacom or MTN
The recent piece by BMI-Techknowledge senior consultant Martyn Roetter, in response to a Convergence Partners research report on wholesale open-access wireless networks, itself deserves some reply. It goes without saying that the Convergence Partners’ research report speaks to that company’s own strategy
Alan Knott-Craig’s move to simplify Cell C’s tariff structures is a smart strategic manoeuvre. He’s making it easy for customers to understand what they’re getting for their money. It’s long overdue in an industry where the bigger players bewilder their
Cell C is continuing with its price-cutting crusade, reducing the cost of calls to 99c/minute on per-second billing to 27 more countries from Sunday, 1 July. “Some of these tariffs to additional countries will be on a promotional basis, but are expected to become permanent tariffs by the end of July, once approved
No matter what they choose to believe, telecommunications companies are little more than operators of “dumb pipes” and the “sooner they can get over it, the sooner they can move on”. That’s the view of Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig, who says social networks will play an increasingly important
Mobile operator Cell C is in talks with Vodacom about renegotiating the 15-year roaming agreement the two companies signed in 2001. Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig says the discussions with Vodacom “are going in the right direction”, but he says he