{"id":109545,"date":"2016-01-20T11:56:38","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T09:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=109545"},"modified":"2016-01-20T11:56:38","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T09:56:38","slug":"cell-c-is-launching-fibre-to-the-home-in-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/109545\/cell-c-is-launching-fibre-to-the-home-in-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell C is launching fibre-to-the-home in February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C plans to launch its fibre-to-the-home service by the end of February, which will offer large data allowances at aggressive prices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbcafrica.com\/video\/?ytid=PIZgWc66-EA\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Speaking to Bruce Whitfield on CNBC\u2019s MoneyMakers<\/strong><\/a>, Cell C CEO Jose dos Santos said they will launch FTTH products within the next 4 to 5 weeks, with innovative pricing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are going to come out with some very aggressive fibre-to-the-home packages,\u201d said dos Santos.<\/p>\n<p>He said the days of 10GB, 20GB, or 30GB data packages are over. \u201cWe are looking at packages of 200GB and 300GB,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dos Santos said South Africans are looking for high broadband speeds, fuelled by video streaming services like ShowMax and Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>He said\u00a0that while consumers want high speeds and large data allowances, they are tired of paying exorbitant prices for these services.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C, said dos Santos, will address this with its FTTH products.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Cell C<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/109003\/cell-c-warns-of-harmful-whatsapp-regulation\/\">Cell C warns of \u201charmful\u201d WhatsApp regulation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/108453\/details-emerge-on-cell-c-jse-listing-date\/\">Details emerge on Cell C JSE listing date<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/107933\/cell-c-board-gives-the-nod-for-r4-billion-blue-label-deal\/\">Cell C board gives the nod for R4 billion Blue Label deal<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C plans to launch its fibre-to-the-home service by the end of February, which will offer large data allowances at aggressive prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":54956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,42],"class_list":["post-109545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-cell-c"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109549,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109545\/revisions\/109549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}