The recent piece by BMI-Techknowledge senior consultant Martyn Roetter, in response to a Convergence Partners research report on wholesale open-access wireless networks, itself deserves some reply. It goes without saying that the Convergence Partners’ research report speaks to that company’s own strategy
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Alan Knott-Craig’s move to simplify Cell C’s tariff structures is a smart strategic manoeuvre. He’s making it easy for customers to understand what they’re getting for their money. It’s long overdue in an industry where the bigger players bewilder their
Dimension Data division Internet Solutions (IS) has signed a five-year contract with the SA arm of American Tower Corporation (ATC) in terms of which it will use ATC’s towers to offer wireless solutions. IS says the deal will “position it” to offer fourth-generation (4G) broadband services when these become
FibreCo, the fibre-optic telecommunications infrastructure provider co-owned by Dimension Data’s Internet Solutions, Cell C and Convergence Partners, will begin work on the next leg of its network in the next three months to link the coastal cities of East London, Cape Town and Durban. The company
Vodacom has fired the latest shot in the ongoing price war in the mobile industry. The operator is offering existing prepaid customers the option of getting 60 minutes of talk time if they recharge for R5. However, the latest offer is a promotion only and expires at the end of July. Also, the
Cell C is continuing with its price-cutting crusade, reducing the cost of calls to 99c/minute on per-second billing to 27 more countries from Sunday, 1 July. “Some of these tariffs to additional countries will be on a promotional basis, but are expected to become permanent tariffs by the end of July, once approved
No matter what they choose to believe, telecommunications companies are little more than operators of “dumb pipes” and the “sooner they can get over it, the sooner they can move on”. That’s the view of Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig, who says social networks will play an increasingly important
Mobile operator Cell C is in talks with Vodacom about renegotiating the 15-year roaming agreement the two companies signed in 2001. Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig says the discussions with Vodacom “are going in the right direction”, but he says he
Third mobile operator Cell C plans to build a new, 50 000sq m campus north of Sandton to integrate its disparate offices, which are located across Johannesburg, from Parktown to Sandton. The new facility, which will house Cell C’s head
The Internet Service Providers’ Association (Ispa) is pressing communications minister Dina Pule to finalise her policy directions on high-demand radio frequency spectrum, including the “digital dividend” band that will be freed up when SA’s broadcasters move from analogue to digital terrestrial television