Cell C chops prepaid, contract prices
Cell C has announced significant pre-paid and contract price cuts with new products that will become available on 1 June 2014.
“We listened and turned 99c on its head,” Cell C CEO Jose Dos Santos told journalists during an event at their headquarters in Midrand on 13 May 2014.
Dos Santos said that, from the start of June, Cell C will have a new pre-paid tariff plan that subscribers can switch to which offers a call rate of 66c/minute, billed per second.
Cell C’s SupaCharge feature won’t be available on this pre-paid tariff plan.
Subscribers who prefer contracts will be able to sign up for one of 3 new month-to-month contracts that have a call rate of 79c/minute.
The contracts will be called ChatMore Standard, ChatMore 200, and ChatMore 400, Dos Santos said
He emphasised that little commitment is needed on these contracts as a subscriber can give a month’s notice if they don’t like the service.
Asked whether Cell C’s current contract customers could look forward to a price cut, Dos Santos said that existing subscribers could switch to ChatMore when their contract comes up for renewal.
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