{"id":42086,"date":"2013-07-16T16:04:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T14:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=42086"},"modified":"2013-07-17T15:35:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T13:35:50","slug":"cell-c-where-the-billions-will-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/42086\/cell-c-where-the-billions-will-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell C: where the billions will go"},"content":{"rendered":"

The recent injection of around R5.7-billion into Cell C<\/a> will primarily be used for network roll-out, particularly in the Gauteng area, Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig<\/a> recently told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n

This cash comes from Oger Telecoms<\/a> which invested a further $350-million (around R3.5-billion) and key lenders \u201cincluding Nedbank<\/a> and the Development Bank of South Africa<\/a>\u201d which provided R2.2-billion.<\/p>\n

Cell C wants to improve and expand its network from the South of Gauteng near Vereeniging to as far North as Bela-Bela, Knott-Craig said.<\/p>\n

He added that they also want to invest in capacity upgrades as traffic on the Cell C network has doubled in the last 15 months.<\/p>\n

Knott-Craig also said that for them to gain the market share they need to be sustainable will cost money. \u201cDistribution channels are not free,\u201d Knott-Craig said.<\/p>\n

Asked whether the cash injection would help Cell C fix the network problems users have been reporting, Knott-Craig said, \u201cYes. Without investment we can\u2019t address them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Knott-Craig said that a lot of capacity problems have been addressed in the last 3 months and that the problems subscribers have been experiencing of late is due to issues with Cell C\u2019s national roaming agreement with Vodacom.<\/p>\n

Vodacom is not handling hand-over of users on Cell C\u2019s network to its own as seamlessly as it should be, Knott-Craig said.<\/p>\n

Cell C tried to resolve the matter with Vodacom<\/a> with no success, so they have decided to lodge a complaint with the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa<\/a>, Knott Craig said.<\/p>\n

More on Cell C<\/h3>\n

Cell C network problems blamed on Vodacom<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cell C gets R3.5 billion cash boost<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cell C talking to MVNO players: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Telkom dismisses Cell C merger talks<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cell C chief executive Alan Knott-Craig explains how the operator will be spending the R3.5 billion cash injection the company received from parent, Oger Telecom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":23679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[43,42,26,27],"class_list":["post-42086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-alan-knott-craig","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42086","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42086"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42088,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42086\/revisions\/42088"}],"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=42086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}