{"id":17599,"date":"2012-07-16T15:57:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T13:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=17599"},"modified":"2012-07-16T15:57:50","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T13:57:50","slug":"cell-c-exceeds-1-million-99c-for-real-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/17599\/cell-c-exceeds-1-million-99c-for-real-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell C exceeds 1 million 99c For Real customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C\u2019s 99c For Real prepaid service has gained a great deal of traction in the South African mobile market since it was launched on 20 May 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C CEO, Alan Knott-Craig said that they have shipped more than 4 million 99c For Real starter packs from their warehouse to distribution channels to date. \u201cWe have more than 1 million customers on the 99 For Real package,\u201d said Knott-Craig.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C is also showing strong data subscriber growth. \u201cWe have more than 3 million data users on our network. We have seen a steady increase in data users and usage,\u201d said Knott-Craig.<\/p>\n<p>Knott-Craig added that the take up of their contract and least cost routing (LCR) services has been &#8220;steady&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C\u2019s contract offerings may be bolstered by the operator\u2019s recent addition of the iPhone to its product range, complementing its existing high-end phones from HTC, BlackBerry, Nokia and Samsung.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cell C 99c for real: 2 million and counting\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/13742\/cell-c-99c-for-real-2-million-and-counting\/\"><strong>Cell C 99c for real: 2 million and counting<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MTN laughs off Vodacom, Cell C prepaid price cuts\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/50271-mtn-laughs-off-vodacom-cell-c-prepaid-price-cuts.html\"><strong>MTN laughs off Vodacom, Cell C prepaid price cuts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cell C slashes prepaid voice and data prices\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/12641\/cell-c-slashes-prepaid-voice-and-data-prices\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cell C slashes prepaid voice and data prices<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vodacom cuts prepaid call rates\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/12657\/vodacom-cuts-prepaid-call-rates\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vodacom cuts prepaid call rates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Value more important than price: 8ta\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/12803\/value-more-important-than-price-8ta\/\"><strong>Value more important than price: 8ta<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C\u2019s 99c For Real prepaid service is gaining momentum in the market with over 4 million starter packs shipped<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[43,42,26],"class_list":["post-17599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-alan-knott-craig","tag-cell-c","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17599","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17599"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17928,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17599\/revisions\/17928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}