{"id":23963,"date":"2012-10-10T10:59:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T08:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=23963"},"modified":"2012-10-10T13:02:55","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T11:02:55","slug":"cell-c-let-the-fight-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/23963\/cell-c-let-the-fight-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell C: “let the fight begin”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cell C<\/a> is calling for lower mobile termination rates, getting rid of peak and off-peak pricing and stopping the practice of charging different rates for on-net and off-net calls.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the 2012 MyBroadband Conference, Cell C chief commercial officer Jose Dos Santos<\/a> said that mobile termination rates need to keep coming down to create a more competitive mobile market.<\/p>\n

Dos Santos further said that charging different rates for on-net and off-net is anti-competitive, essentially giving large operators an unfair advantage in the market.<\/p>\n

The Cell C CCO added that it is time to get rid of peak and off-peak rates, highlighting the company\u2019s 99c per minute call rate to all operators (including international destinations) at all times.<\/p>\n

Dos Santos is echoing Knott-Craig<\/a>\u2019s recent comments where he said that differentiating between peak and off-peak calling is an archaic pricing model which has no place in our modern world. He called on the regulator and operators to do away with this practice.<\/p>\n

In reference to recent comments by new Vodacom<\/a> CEO Shameel\u00a0Joosub<\/a> of the group’s intention to take on Cell C in dropping prices, Dos Santos said that nobody\u00a0had stepped into the ring to ring the bell for the fight to start…”so ding ding ding, let the fight begin,” he said.<\/p>\n

\"Jose<\/a>

Jose Dos Santos<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cThe status quo needs to be shaken up,\u201d says Cell C Chief Commercial Officer Jose Dos Santos, speaking at the 2012 MyBroadband conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[43,42,26,4339],"class_list":["post-23963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-telecommunications","tag-alan-knott-craig","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-jose-dos-santos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23963","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=23963"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23975,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23963\/revisions\/23975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}