Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig has blamed the company’s bigger rival, Vodacom, for quality of service issues experienced by consumers. He says Vodacom is not living up to the terms of a national service agreement the two parties signed in 2012. He also pointed a finger of blame
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Cell C’s majority shareholder, Dubai-based Oger Telecom, has earmarked an equity investment of US$350m (R3,5bn) for the mobile operator. In addition to the shareholder injection, key lenders, including Nedbank and Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA), have concluded a long-term financing package of R2,2bn to Cell C, in a transaction arranged
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) has argued that insufficient competition between mobile operators is keeping the cost of mobile broadband higher than it should be and limiting uptake by South African consumers. But the operators say it’s not that simple. Vodacom spokesman Richard
Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig has warned of legal action if the telecommunications regulator does not cut mobile termination rates by the end of the year, according to a report on Friday. “I will use everything in my power to get Icasa [the Independent Communications Authority of SA] to do its job,” Knott-Craig told Business Day newspaper.
Cell C has again chopped mobile data prices, this time on a three-month promotional basis, cutting the cost of 500MB of monthly data to R39/month for contract customers. The move, the operator says, is meant to send a “clear message” to its customers and its competitors. “Cell C has always provided customers
Cell C has sidestepped a potential Competition Commission investigation after it revised its wholesale bulk SMS pricing rates to all wireless application service providers (Wasps), prompting the industry association, Waspa, to withdraw a member decision to lodge a complaint with the competition body
Ladies and gentleman, we have a price war. South Africa’s mobile operators are competing more aggressively with one another on price than at any other time in the industry’s 20-year history. Prepaid rates, in particular, have tumbled. And, whatever telecommunications industry bosses argue
Mobile operator Cell C is allegedly giving Blue Label Telecoms-owned wireless application service providers (Wasps) preferential rates and services when they use its network, a move that has angered rival service providers. BulkSMS MD Pieter Streicher says the
When major corporate brands start bashing each other over the head in public, you know that commercial rivalry between them has reached an intense level. This is exactly what’s happening in South Africa’s mobile industry, where Vodacom, MTN and Cell C have taken to sniping at each other at every
Mobile operator Cell C is lobbying the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) to delay the reduction in wholesale mobile termination rates on 1 March so that an “urgent market review” can be done to determine the effectiveness of the regulations. “In order to