{"id":8577,"date":"2012-03-28T13:37:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T11:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=8577"},"modified":"2012-11-14T16:44:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-14T14:44:46","slug":"cell-c-to-sign-another-virtual-operator-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/8577\/cell-c-to-sign-another-virtual-operator-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell C to sign another virtual operator agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/213919-Cell-C\" target=\"_blank\">Cell C<\/a> is set to sign their second mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) agreement, similar to the agreement which the company has with <a title=\"Company Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/309707-Virgin-Mobile\" target=\"_blank\">Virgin Mobile<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>New Cell C CEO, <a title=\"Person Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/224891-Alan-Knott-Craig-%28Senior%29\" target=\"_blank\">Alan Knott-Craig<\/a> said in an interview on 702, that the company is \u201cabout to appoint a second MVNO as far as I know\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C would not reveal details about the MVNO at this stage. \u201cUnfortunately we cannot disclose any details at this stage, but an announcement will be made in due course,\u201d Cell C said.<\/p>\n<p>Rumours abound that <a title=\"Person Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/207874-John-Holdsworth\" target=\"_blank\">John Holdsworth<\/a>\u2019s new business AppChat is in discussions with Cell C about a possible MVNO, but Holdsworth could not confirm or deny the rumours as he is \u2018under an NDA\u2019 with Cell C.<\/p>\n<p>Knott-Craig pointed out that the MVNO model worked well in some parts of the world, but was a spectacular failure in others.<\/p>\n<p>The new Cell C CEO said that they are definitely not against the MVNO model, but warned that it can be challenging to create a profitable and sustainable MVNO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/7356\/mobile-voice-disruption-planned-in-south-african-market\/\"><strong>Mobile voice disruption planned for SA market<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C is set to sign another mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) agreement, complimenting their existing VMNO agreement with Virgin Mobile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5012,"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":[43,1878,42,26,66],"class_list":["post-8577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-alan-knott-craig","tag-appchat","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-john-holdsworth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8577"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8583,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8577\/revisions\/8583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}