{"id":57393,"date":"2014-05-13T12:11:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T10:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=57393"},"modified":"2014-05-13T12:11:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T10:11:27","slug":"cell-c-chops-prepaid-contract-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/57393\/cell-c-chops-prepaid-contract-prices\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell C chops prepaid, contract prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C has announced significant pre-paid and contract price cuts with new products that will become available on 1 June 2014.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe listened and turned 99c on its head,\u201d Cell C CEO Jose Dos Santos told journalists during an event at their headquarters in Midrand on 13 May 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Dos Santos said that, from the start of June, Cell C will have a new pre-paid tariff plan that subscribers can switch to which offers a call rate of 66c\/minute, billed per second.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C\u2019s SupaCharge feature won\u2019t be available on this pre-paid tariff plan.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribers who prefer contracts will be able to sign up for one of 3 new month-to-month contracts that have a call rate of 79c\/minute.<\/p>\n<p>The contracts will be called ChatMore Standard, ChatMore 200, and ChatMore 400, Dos Santos said<\/p>\n<p>He emphasised that little commitment is needed on these contracts as a subscriber can give a month\u2019s notice if they don\u2019t like the service.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether Cell C\u2019s current contract customers could look forward to a price cut, Dos Santos said that existing subscribers could switch to ChatMore when their contract comes up for renewal.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Cell C<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Knott-Craig returns to Cell C, but not as CEO\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/57107\/knott-craig-returns-to-cell-c-but-not-as-ceo\/\"><strong>Knott-Craig returns to Cell C, but not as CEO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cell C fighting for its life: report\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/54950\/cell-c-fighting-for-its-life-report\/\"><strong>Cell C fighting for its life: report<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Is Cell C making money?\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/52400\/is-cell-c-making-money\/\"><strong>Is Cell C making money?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cell C\u2019s Knott-Craig warns backers may stop investing\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/44980\/cell-cs-knott-craig-warns-backers-may-stop-investing\/\"><strong>Cell C\u2019s Knott-Craig warns backers may stop investing<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C has announced asignificant pre-paid and contract price cuts with new products that will become available on 1 June 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":19113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[42,26,7929],"class_list":["post-57393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-mobile-rates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57393","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=57393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57395,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57393\/revisions\/57395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}