{"id":90238,"date":"2015-06-09T14:39:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T12:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=90238"},"modified":"2015-06-09T14:47:05","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T12:47:05","slug":"cell-c-and-vodacom-in-3g-roaming-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/90238\/cell-c-and-vodacom-in-3g-roaming-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cell C and Vodacom in 3G roaming deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C has concluded the renegotiation of its roaming agreement with Vodacom, which includes access to 3G services on the Vodacom network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis agreement allows Cell C to provide a seamless experience to our customers, even those in outlying areas where we have limited coverage,\u201d said Cell C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCell C customers in those areas will now also have access to Internet technologies on Vodacom\u2019s 3G network.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The agreement will complement Cell C\u2019s plan to invest R8 billion in its own LTE network over the next three years, said the operator.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith over R4 billion in investments over the 2014 and 2015 financial years for increased coverage and capacity, we felt that our next step was to bolster those areas where we have limited coverage and this agreement helps us do that,\u201d said Cell C.<\/p>\n<p>The roaming agreement is effective from 1 June 2015, and customers will soon be able to experience an improved service in roaming areas, said Cell C. The switch-on is expected to be completed within the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Cell C<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Cell C in talks to boost network quality\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/90068\/cell-c-in-talks-to-boost-network-quality\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cell C in talks to boost network quality<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to FNB not concerned about Cell C debt\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/89724\/fnb-not-concerned-about-cell-c-debt\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">FNB not concerned about Cell C debt<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Cell C needs more money\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/89156\/cell-c-needs-more-money\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cell C needs more money<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Vodacom dismisses Cell C\u2019s R10,000 \u2018gimmick\u2019\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/87522\/vodacom-dismisses-cell-cs-r10000-gimmick\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Vodacom dismisses Cell C\u2019s R10,000 \u2018gimmick\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C says it has concluded renegotiating its roaming agreement with Vodacom, includes access to 3G services on the Vodacom network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":90256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[42,26,27],"class_list":["post-90238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90238","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90238"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90260,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90238\/revisions\/90260"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}