Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig earlier on Monday suffered what the company is describing as a “minor stroke”. “He is currently recovering in hospital and is responding well to treatment,” Cell C said in a statement. “He is expected to make a full recovery.” The company said Cell C
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The iPhone 5s and 5c, the latest iPhone models from Apple, went on sale in South Africa on Friday, with prices starting at R8 499 for the 16GB version of the iPhone 5c at the iStore, the retail chain operated by Apple distributor Core Group. The phones are also available on contract through
Afrihost, which earlier this year introduced aggressively priced mobile broadband offerings in partnership with network operator MTN, has effectively cut the price of mobile data in half until the end of February next year. The move appears to be a reaction to MWeb’s
Vodacom has come out guns blazing against proposals by its regulator, Icasa, that mobile call termination rates be slashed over the next three years while giving the company’s smaller rivals a leg up through “asymmetry”. Icasa wants the new rates – which operators charge each
Cell C has chopped international call rates on a promotional basis until the end of January 2014, reducing rates to 12 popular international destinations to 65c/minute on per-second billing. The countries to which the promotional rate applies are
Cell C has emerged victorious in a complaint at the Advertising Standards Authority in a ruling that allows the country’s third largest mobile operator to continue to state in its marketing campaigns that it has the “most affordable rate to any network, any place, any time”
Sipho Maseko is a really nice guy – which makes me want to pity him over the challenge he’s taken on at Telkom. Some would say accepting the group CEO position at South Africa’s biggest fixed-line operator is like grabbing a tiger by its tail. Sooner rather than later, you get eaten
MTN has the most complex post-paid packages among South African mobile operators, while Cell C’s are the simplest to understand. This is the conclusion of Tariffic, a recently launched independent company that analyses and optimises the cellphone spend of high-end consumers
MWeb now has direct access to Cell C’s mobile data network after the two signed an agreement in terms of which the MultiChoice-owned Internet service provider will have access to an access point name (APN) supplied by the mobile operator. The move, which
Telkom Mobile has extended its Sim-Sonke prepaid plan to roaming partner MTN’s network, meaning subscribers can use the aggressively priced plans in many more parts of South Africa. Previously, Sim-Sonke was available only on Telkom Mobile’s network