{"id":34800,"date":"2013-04-03T10:01:43","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T08:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=34800"},"modified":"2013-04-03T10:08:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T08:08:19","slug":"cell-c-off-the-hook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/34800\/cell-c-off-the-hook\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell C off the hook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wireless Application Service Providers\u2019 Association (<a title=\"WASPA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/5956-Wireless-Application-Service-Providers-Association-WASPA\">WASPA<\/a>) has decided against lodging a complaint with the <a title=\"Competition Commission\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/4841-Competition-Commission\">Competition Commission<\/a> against <a title=\"Cell C\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1641-Cell-C\">Cell C<\/a> in relation to bulk SMS provisioning.<\/p>\n<p>At the recent WASPA AGM the majority of the body\u2019s members voted in favour of lodging a complaint against Cell C for giving preferential treatment to <a title=\"Blue Label Telecoms\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/2998-Blue-Label-Telecoms\">Blue Label Telecoms<\/a> owned Cellfind on bulk SMS pricing and a cross-network A2P reply path.<\/p>\n<p>However, WASPA said in a letter to its members this morning (3 April 2013) that it has been \u201cengaging Cell C on this matter and is pleased to report that Cell C has now committed to providing a level playing field to all its WASPs in regard to pricing and facilities\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result of this development, the WASPA Mancom believes that there is now no need to pursue lodging a Competition Commission complaint against Cell C in relation to bulk SMS provisioning,\u201d WASPA said in the letter.<\/p>\n<p>Some WASPA members feel that a Competition Commission complaint was necessary to send a message to all mobile operators that they should not play favourites when it comes to WASP rates and treatment.<\/p>\n<p>MyBroadband previously contacted WASPA chairperson <a title=\"Leon Perlman\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/7855-Leon-Perlman\">Leon Perlman<\/a> to gain clarity on the issue, but he did not respond to questions.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C also did not provide feedback on whether it will continue to provide Blue Label Telecoms owned Cellfind with preferential rates or services.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Cell C WASPA articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"WASPA Cell C SMS complaint uncertainty\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/34448\/waspa-cell-c-sms-complaint-uncertainty\/\"><strong>WASPA Cell C SMS complaint uncertainty<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cell C WASPA battle looming\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/33693\/cell-c-waspa-battle-looming\/\"><strong>Cell C WASPA battle looming<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Rivals \u201cnowhere near\u201d Cell C on prices: Blue Label\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/32036\/rivals-nowhere-near-cell-c-on-prices-blue-label\/\">Rivals \u201cnowhere near\u201d Cell C on prices: Blue Label<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cell C bullied on SMS plans: Knott-Craig\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/26476\/cell-c-bullied-on-sms-plans-knott-craig\/\"><strong>Cell C bullied on SMS plans: Knott-Craig<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wireless Application Service Providers\u2019 Association has backtracked on its plans to file a complaint against Cell C with the Competition Commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":23679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1382,42,2905,26,5473,3733],"class_list":["post-34800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-blue-label-telecoms","tag-cell-c","tag-cellfind","tag-headline","tag-leon-perlman","tag-waspa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34800","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=34800"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34804,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34800\/revisions\/34804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}