{"id":198074,"date":"2017-09-12T10:00:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=198074"},"modified":"2017-09-12T10:00:49","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T08:00:49","slug":"cell-c-announces-new-lower-international-roaming-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/198074\/cell-c-announces-new-lower-international-roaming-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell C announces new lower international roaming rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile group Cell C has announced new reduced international roaming rates to 58 countries, covering 99 networks.<\/p>\n<p>The new rates, which will kick in from 13 September, will see customers roaming on any of the countries listed pay a standard R10 per minute for making and receiving calls, R10 per MB for data, and R2.99 per SMS on certain networks in these countries.<\/p>\n<p>The only exclusions to these are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emtel Mauritius, where customers will pay R20 per minute for calls and R20 per MB for data<\/li>\n<li>Netone Zimbabwe, where customers will pay R15 per minute for calls and R15 per MB for data<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cell C advised its customers to manually select discounted networks when roaming, to ensure that they always pay the lowest possible roaming charges.<\/p>\n<p>It also directed customers to its <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cellc.co.za\/cellc\/international-roaming\">International Roaming page for more information<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cell C also continues to offer Wi-Fi Calling as an alternative to roaming, a service that turns any Wi-Fi hotspot into a Cell C base station, effectively allowing customers to make and receive calls as if they were in South Africa, while they are traveling abroad,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the list of countries that the new rates apply to:<\/p>\n<div class=\"bt_table\">\n<div class=\"table-responsive\"><table class=\"table\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th colspan=\"5\" bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">International Roaming Countries<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"20%\">Argentina<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">Congo Republic<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">Ireland<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">Netherlands<\/td>\n<td width=\"20%\">Switzerland<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Australia<\/td>\n<td>Costa Rica<\/td>\n<td>Italy<\/td>\n<td>New Zealand<\/td>\n<td>Tanzania<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Austria<\/td>\n<td>Croatia<\/td>\n<td>Kenya<\/td>\n<td>Nigeria<\/td>\n<td>Turkey<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Belgium<\/td>\n<td>Czech Republic<\/td>\n<td>Lesotho<\/td>\n<td>Panama<\/td>\n<td>UAE<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Benin<\/td>\n<td>Ecuador<\/td>\n<td>Luxembourg<\/td>\n<td>Peru<\/td>\n<td>Uganda<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Brazil<\/td>\n<td>Gabon<\/td>\n<td>Madagascar<\/td>\n<td>Poland<\/td>\n<td>United Kingdom<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Canada<\/td>\n<td>Germany<\/td>\n<td>Malawi<\/td>\n<td>Portugal<\/td>\n<td>Uruguay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Chad<\/td>\n<td>Ghana<\/td>\n<td>Mauritius<\/td>\n<td>Romania<\/td>\n<td>Venezuela<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Chile<\/td>\n<td>Greece<\/td>\n<td>Mexico<\/td>\n<td>Rwanda<\/td>\n<td>Zambia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>China<\/td>\n<td>Hungary<\/td>\n<td>Mozambique<\/td>\n<td>Senegal<\/td>\n<td>Zimbabwe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Columbia<\/td>\n<td>Iceland<\/td>\n<td>Namibia<\/td>\n<td>Seychelles<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Congo (DRC)<\/td>\n<td>India<\/td>\n<td>Nepal<\/td>\n<td>Spain<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/195622\/the-best-mobile-network-in-south-africa-vodacom-vs-mtn-vs-cell-c-vs-telkom\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The best mobile network in South Africa: Vodacom vs MTN vs Cell C vs Telkom<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile group Cell C has announced new reduced international roaming rates to 58 countries, covering 99 networks.<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-198074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198074","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=198074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198086,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198074\/revisions\/198086"}],"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=198074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}