{"id":191708,"date":"2017-08-11T10:26:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T08:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=191708"},"modified":"2017-08-11T10:28:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T08:28:59","slug":"cell-c-partners-with-worlds-largest-mvno-to-start-rolling-out-its-services-in-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/191708\/cell-c-partners-with-worlds-largest-mvno-to-start-rolling-out-its-services-in-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell C partners with world\u2019s largest MVNO to start rolling out its services in SA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lycamobile, which claims to be the world\u2019s largest mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), says it has partnered with Cell C to start rolling out its services in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The UK-based group has a global network reach into 23 countries, while its partnership with Cell C marks the firm\u2019s first launch in Sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Following this launch, South Africans will have the opportunity to connect with friends and family through Lycamobile\u2019s low-cost calling, texting and data services,&#8221; the group said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-8186837387907228991MsoNoSpacing\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Lycamobile operates in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Macedonia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunisia, UK, Ukraine and USA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It runs on various carriers around the world, including Telstra in Australia, Vodafone in Germany and Italy, O2 in the UK, and T-Mobile in the US.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/164345\/new-mvno-lycamobile-launches-on-cell-c\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New MVNO Lycamobile launches on Cell C<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lycamobile, which claims to be the world\u2019s largest mobile virtual network operator (MVNO), says it has partnered with Cell C to start rolling out its services in South Africa. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":118991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[42,12138],"class_list":["post-191708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-cell-c","tag-lycamobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191708","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191732,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191708\/revisions\/191732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}