Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has sounded a warning over Cell C’s debts and its ability to repay them, and has said this could trigger a downgrade in the mobile operator’s long-term rating of B-. Such a downgrade, if it were to happen, could affect Cell C’s
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In a development reminiscent of a move by an aggrieved Cell C customer last year, who erected a giant billboard against the mobile operator, an incensed Vodacom client has erected three banners after experiencing problems with his cellular signal
Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele presented his budget vote speech last week and concealed among the details is a ticking time bomb that’s about to go off on mobile operators, broadcasters and Internet service providers
News this week that government appears finally to be making progress in publishing a policy for the allocation of radio frequency spectrum for broadband deployment is to be welcomed, even though it’s disgraceful that it’s many years late
South Africa’s big three mobile operators have taken a “short-term view to satisfy their shareholders” by increasing the price of their post-paid packages, a decision that could come back to haunt them in the longer term. That’s one of the conclusions
Local mobile operators’ claims that rising input costs are fuelling contract price hikes are not reflected in these companies’ financial statements, says a research body. Research ICT Africa has put together a research brief that asks whether
MTN is below par when it comes to customer satisfaction, while Telkom’s mobile arm is a leader among mobile operators, new research purports to show. The South African Customer Satisfaction Index (SAcsi) surveyed more than
Cell C has declared war on Vodacom and MTN, taking direct aim at its bigger rivals with an offer to buy out their post-paid subscribers from their contracts up to the value of R10 000. The operator
Cell C’s CEO Jose Dos Santos says an initiative to give customers up to R10 000 to help buy themselves out of contracts with other networks could last longer than just four months. The mobile
Data revenue on Cell C’s network has grown from R417m in the period January to March 2014 to R661m for the same period in 2015. This was disclosed at Cell C’s year-end financial results