{"id":50184,"date":"2013-11-28T10:06:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T08:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=50184"},"modified":"2013-11-28T10:07:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T08:07:22","slug":"cell-c-accelerates-subscriber-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/50184\/cell-c-accelerates-subscriber-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell C accelerates subscriber growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Acting CEO at Cell C,\u00a0Jose Dos Santos<\/a>, says that the operator has hit 13 million subscribers for the first time.<\/p>\n

In a briefing in Sandton, the company lead, in the\u00a0absence\u00a0of Alan Knott-Craig, said that Cell C had achieved more than 1.2 million gross connections in October, with 400,000 net additions.<\/p>\n

Last month,\u00a0Cell C<\/a>\u00a0said it had signed up one million gross customers in September, having achieved that milestone for the first time in July.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the MyBroadband 2013 conference in Midrand,\u00a0Cell C CEO,\u00a0Alan Knott-Craig<\/a>\u00a0said that South Africa\u2019s third operator had again signed up in excess of one million customers in September, for the second time ever.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0company\u00a0told BusinessTech that it fell marginally short of reaching that target in August, meaning that its gross sign-ups is close to three million over the past three months.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have grown our base by 33% to 12.3 million customers in just 18 months,\u201d Knott-Craig told delegates at the conference.<\/p>\n

In July 2013, Cell C revealed that it had 11.7 million subscribers on its network \u2013 a steady climb from 8.2 million users in 2011 and 9.4 million in 2012 \u2013 boosting its relative market share to over 17%.<\/p>\n

Knott-Craig has said that the\u00a0company\u00a0is targeting 25% market share in order to be profitable.<\/p>\n

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Cell C network \u201cperfect\u201d by November: CEO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Cell C dead by 2014: analyst<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Cell C sign-ups boom\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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