CellC has only limited interest in mobile broadband

Not good news for Virgin. 3G phone are thus useless with my intended V100. They thus rule out all 3G phone users--until they review their policy.

Mayby Virgin will review this and also partner with Vodacom.
 
How much benefit would there be for Vodacom in providing infrastructure to Virgin?

So far I've found EDGE fast fast enough and reliable so I'm quite happy to stick to it for the price.
 
Unless Vodacom agreed to allow Virgin, perhaps through the Cell C-Voda roaming agreement access to their 3G network.
 
I don't think this is such a bad idea. If Cell C goes and spends more money on 3G towers, they won't be able to compete on call costs as they will have to make up for that "loss" by keeping costs higher. We need competition in the area of call costs desperately.
 
So for now the mobile broadband arena will be mainly a two-horse race, especially since CellC’s reluctance to roll out mobile broadband also disqualifies Virgin from playing in this space.
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I never could understand why Virgin chose CellC with the least amount of network coverage and the least amount of innovation, but I can understand that CellC needs to batten down its hatches and devolve in order to avoid the future [which is not necessarily 3G, it could easily be mobile WiMax]...:rolleyes:
 
Cell C is going for WiMax. From the info I have they've already formed a startegic partnership with a telecoms solution provider to get it off the ground.
 
ic said:
I never could understand why Virgin chose CellC with the least amount of network coverage and the least amount of innovation
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Simple, Cell C needed the partnership, Vodacom and MTN didn't.

I don't really see anything the other operators are doing as innovation.
 
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noxibox said:
ic said:
I never could understand why Virgin chose CellC with the least amount of network coverage and the least amount of innovatio
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Simple, Cell C needed the partnership, Vodacom and MTN didn't.

I don't really see anything the other operators are doing as innovation.
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Surely mobile broadband from both MTN and Vodacom is innovative?

PS: You've truncated my post into a spelling error in your quote :(.
 
ic said:
Surely mobile broadband from both MTN and Vodacom is innovative?

PS: You've truncated my post into a spelling error in your quote :(.
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Finger slip fixed.

I don't see that as an innovation. The broadband technology itself is an innovation, but cell operators buy it. What was MTN and Vodacom's involvement in the research and development of EDGE, 3G and HSDPA?
 
noxibox said:
Finger slip fixed.

I don't see that as an innovation. The broadband technology itself is an innovation, but cell operators buy it. What was MTN and Vodacom's involvement in the research and development of EDGE, 3G and HSDPA?
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IMO both MTN & Vodacom [and their customers for that matter] have been guinea pigs for 3G|HSDPA, IOW IMO both MTN & Vodacom have been experimented upon in the continued development of 3G|HSDPA...
 
if virgin works of cel-c that means edge is the max out of it, and since my vpn does not work on cel-c it wont on virgin either, so no thanks i'll stick to mtn for now

if virgin works of cel-c that means edge is the max out of it, and since my vpn does not work on cel-c it wont on virgin either, so no thanks i'll stick to mtn for now

if virgin works of cel-c that means edge is the max out of it, and since my vpn does not work on cel-c it wont on virgin either, so no thanks i'll stick to mtn for now
 
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