{"id":29375,"date":"2013-01-07T14:25:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T12:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=29375"},"modified":"2013-01-07T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T12:36:09","slug":"cell-c-guns-into-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/29375\/cell-c-guns-into-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell C guns into 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Cell C\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1641-Cell-C\">Cell C<\/a> has partnered with ISP <a title=\"Mweb\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1817-Mweb\">Mweb<\/a> to offer \u00a0a series of data deals at reduced rates in a move that is likely to rankle rivals <a title=\"MTN\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1640-MTN-Group\">MTN<\/a> and <a title=\"Vodacom\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1639-Vodacom\">Vodacom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C made a habit of cutting data and call prices throughout 2012, and is at it again early in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>MWEB, in partnership with Cell C, will offer consumers a 2GB Cell C data package at a discounted rate of just R89 per month.<\/p>\n<p>Normally priced at R99 per month, Mweb is subsidizing R10 per month on each 2GB contract. In addition to the full suite of standard Cell C packages, Mweb will also be offering 5GB, 10GB and 20GB data deals at R499, R899, R1,799 respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that Cell C\u2019s products will be a perfect complement to our ADSL packages with their competitive deals to the market,\u201d said <a title=\"Carolyn Holgate\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/6684-Carolyn-Holgate\">Carolyn Holgate<\/a>, general manager of Mweb Connect.<\/p>\n<p>Customers who sign-up for any 12- or 24-month Cell C deal via Mweb will get added benefits including 300MB of free Wi-Fi per month; one year free Uncapped Website Hosting; a 2GB mailbox with 5 e-mail addresses; virus and spam filtering and 5GB Store-It cloud storage account.<\/p>\n<p>The Mweb 2GB for R89 promotion is valid until 31 January 2013.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Cell C launches insurance for mobiles\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/28867\/cell-c-launches-insurance-for-mobiles\/\"><strong>Cell C launches insurance for mobiles<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"First Cell C LTE sites go live\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/27385\/first-cell-c-lte-sites-go-live\/\"><strong>First Cell C LTE sites go live<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/63980-cell-c-lte-network-plans-emerge.html\"><strong>Cell C LTE network plans emerge<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/61356-cell-cs-lte-plans.html\"><strong>Cell C\u2019s LTE plans<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C has partnered with ISP MWEB to offer  a series of data deals at reduced rates in a move that is likely to rankle rivals MTN and Vodacom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":12396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,26,28,38,27,2180],"class_list":["post-29375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-mweb","tag-vodacom","tag-wi-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29375","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=29375"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29380,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29375\/revisions\/29380"}],"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=29375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}