Browsing: Cell C

Having been in the telecommunications industry for 15 years now, it never ceases to amaze me how businesses typically contract with the cellular providers based on the size of the discount on offer

In a positive development for Cell C, ratings agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has removed the mobile operator from its watch list for a possible downgrade. This comes, S&P said in a note, after Cell C

Telkom offers prepaid consumers more high-value plans than any other operator in South Africa, while Vodacom offers the fewest because of its relatively high prices, according to new research by telecommunications pricing firm Tarifica. Using an algorithm

Mobile operators MTN and Cell C are both giving serious consideration to taking communications regulator Icasa to court over its decision to approve the transfer of Neotel’s licences to rival Vodacom

So, Ahmad Farroukh, MTN South Africa’s CEO of the past 11 months, is leaving at the end of July. His tenure has been rocky, to say the least. He was brought in to turn around the troubled operator

The Advertising Standards Authority has rejected consumer complaints against a Cell C ad that features a scruffy dog mounting a man’s leg, ruling that the company can continue flighting it

Facebook chose South Africa over Kenya and Nigeria for its first African office because the country has a strong advertising agency ecosystem and the companies it’s worked most closely with to date are

Cell C has raised E240m, or about R3,3bn at the current exchange rate, in new debt to fund expansion. The new “first priority senior secured notes” will supplement €160m in similar instruments already in

Cell C has accused rival operators of “deliberate attempts” to prevent their clients from cancelling their contracts early by charging them “excessive and unreasonable” cancellation penalties. However, Cell C