Are recent cuts in wholesale termination rates leading to lower calls prices? Cell C has effectively cut prepaid voice tariffs by launching its “Supa-Woza” promotion to customers on “all-day”, “per-second” and standard prepaid tariff plans which offers 50% bonus airtime if they recharge with R10 or more. However
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In this episode of TalkCentral, your hosts Duncan McLeod and Craig Wilson chat about last week’s big department of communications’ policy colloquium. We discuss whether anything will flow out of the event and the likely impact that communications minister Dina Pule and her director-general Rosey Sekese will have on the technology
New Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig has told the department of communications’ policy colloquium in Midrand, which is taking place on Thursday and Friday this week, that the cost of accessing the Internet in SA needs to be cut in half. He lamented the telecommunications industry’s “failure” to offer the
With the abundance of cables landing on SA’s shores, you could be forgiven for thinking it’s one the most connected countries in the world. In a sense, it soon will be: there’s no shortage of international capacity on the way. What’s lacking is widespread local access to take advantage of it. The problem isn’t without solutions, but
A new research study has found that SA has some of the least affordable prepaid mobile tariffs on the continent and is falling behind many of its neighbours because of high wholesale call rates between operators. The findings are contained in a Research ICT Africa policy brief, with research conducted over the past year
He says government needs to move faster on issuing access to new radio frequency spectrum and ensure it goes to those best suited to use it. He says Cell C’s size makes it more agile than its competitors in a market that is going to become marked by low margins from, and high quantities of, data consumption. Knott-Craig is set
Alan Knott-Craig, who takes the helm at mobile operator Cell C next Monday, hinted strongly on Wednesday that the operator will begin offering Apple’s iPhone to its subscribers within the next few months. Until now, the iPhone has only been available through MTN and Vodacom
On Monday, Alan Knott-Craig will move into his new office at 150 Rivonia Road. Expectations among industry players and consumers alike about his looming tenure at the helm of Cell C are running high. Can the man who built Vodacom turn the smaller operator
ormer Vodacom Group CEO Alan Knott-Craig wants to double Cell C’s market share within the next three or four years, he told a Sunday newspaper. In an interview with the Sunday Times at the weekend, Knott-Craig said he wanted to take the company’s share of the market from 13% to 25%. Knott-Craig, who takes the reins at Cell C next week
AppChat, the mobile voice specialist founded recently by former ECN Telecommunications CEO John Holdsworth, will launch a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) this year and is promising, in the process, to slash the cost of mobile calls in SA. Holdsworth isn’t saying yet which network operator AppChat is partnering