{"id":44100,"date":"2013-08-13T13:19:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T11:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=44100"},"modified":"2013-08-14T09:09:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-14T07:09:50","slug":"blackberry-services-capped-on-cell-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/44100\/blackberry-services-capped-on-cell-c\/","title":{"rendered":"BlackBerry services capped on Cell C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Cell C\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1641-Cell-C\">Cell C<\/a> says that it is updating its fair usage policy (FUP) for data services on <a title=\"BlackBerry\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1752-BlackBerry\">BlackBerry<\/a> 7 (and older) devices.<\/p>\n<p>The new FUP is set to take effect from the start of next week, and introduces \u201cfair use limits\u201d across all of Cell C\u2019s \u201cBlackBerry Classic Plans\u201d, it said in a statement today (13 August 2013).<\/p>\n<p>In the terms and conditions for BlackBerry 7 Internet service plans on its mobile website, Cell C outlined the new caps as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BlackBerry Enterprise Service (BES): R114 for 2GB\/month<\/li>\n<li>BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS): R57 for 2GB\/month<\/li>\n<li>BlackBerry Social &amp; E-mail Plan: R37 for 1GB\/month<\/li>\n<li>BlackBerry Social Plan: R27 for 1GB\/month<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Once a subscriber hits these limits, they will pay Cell C\u2019s 15c\/MB out-of-bundle rate, the network operator said.<\/p>\n<p>All plans offer access to BlackBerry Messenger (BBM), BlackBerry e-mail, BlackBerry App World, Internet Access, and social networking. Cell C summarises the additional features of the various plans on its website as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Social &amp; Email Plan: 1 additional web-based e-mail account such as Yahoo! or Gmail.<\/li>\n<li>BlackBerry Internet Service: 10 Web-based email account, MSN Chat, &amp; Google Talk, Blackberry Protect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Asked whether users would be warned before going out of bundle, Cell C explained that customers will be notified both when they reach 90% of their usage limit and again once they hit their usage limit.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C said that they decided to introduce the caps because abuse of the classic BlackBerry services remained high despite measures it put in place earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome customers are still using in excess of 100GB of data, affecting the service levels of other BlackBerry customers,\u201d Cell C said. \u201cThe streamlining of the service allows the company to address this problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Customers with BlackBerry 10 devices will not be affected by the change, Cell C said.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C highlighted in its statement that its fair usage thresholds are the highest available on the market. At face-value this is true of their cheaper Social &amp; E-mail plans, where MTN offers 200MB per month or less.<\/p>\n<p>However, other mobile network operators claim to offer uncapped BlackBerry Internet Service packages at the \u00b1R60\/month price point.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on BlackBerry<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to BlackBerry sale gets more serious\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/44052\/blackberry-sale-gets-more-serious\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">BlackBerry sale gets more serious<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to BlackBerry to explore alternative strategies\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/44014\/blackberry-to-explore-alternative-strategies\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">BlackBerry to explore alternative strategies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Going private is no panacea for BlackBerry\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/43951\/going-private-is-no-panacea-for-blackberry\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Going private is no panacea for BlackBerry<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to BlackBerry warms to going private\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/43933\/blackberry-warms-to-going-private\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">BlackBerry warms to going private<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C says that it is updating its fair usage policy (FUP) for data services on BlackBerry 7 (and older) devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":44101,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[161,6481,42,26,28],"class_list":["post-44100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-blackberry","tag-blackberry-internet-service-bis","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44100","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=44100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44157,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44100\/revisions\/44157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}