{"id":42473,"date":"2013-07-21T08:57:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T06:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=42473"},"modified":"2013-07-21T09:05:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T07:05:29","slug":"fnb-cell-c-deal-creates-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/42473\/fnb-cell-c-deal-creates-buzz\/","title":{"rendered":"FNB, Cell C deal rumour creates buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rumour has it that Cell C has been trying to put together a deal with First National Bank (FNB) to launch an FNB-branded cellphone business on th Cell C network, the Business Times reported today (21 July 2013).<\/p>\n<p>Neither outgoing FNB CEO Michael Jordaan, nor Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig were willing to comment about the deal, Business Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>However, according to the paper, Knott-Craig said a bank becoming a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) was not far-fetched.<\/p>\n<p>MyBroadband reported in June 2013 that two independent sources had confirmed that FNB and Cell C are in discussions about an MVNO agreement.<\/p>\n<p>According to the sources, a positive outcome from the discussions is likely.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on FNB and Cell C<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to FNB dangles uncapped ADSL carrot\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/38903\/fnb-dangles-uncapped-adsl-carrot\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">FNB dangles uncapped ADSL carrot<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to FNB a digital-only bank?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/banking\/37479\/fnb-a-digital-only-bank\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">FNB a digital-only bank?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Cell C joins unlimited\/limitless fray with Infinity\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/39036\/cell-c-enters-unlimitedlimitless-fray-with-infinity\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cell C joins unlimited\/limitless fray with Infinity<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to LTE not ready yet: Cell C\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/38066\/lte-not-ready-yet-cell-c\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">LTE not ready yet: Cell C<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Times is reporting that industry insiders believe a deal between FNB and Cell C is not far-fetched<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25,42,76,3394],"class_list":["post-42473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-cell-c","tag-fnb","tag-mobile-operator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42473","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=42473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42480,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42473\/revisions\/42480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}