Cell C begins moving customers off its network

dominic said:
....while at the same time applying for spectrum....
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Yep does not make sense that Cell C threw its hat into ICASA's ITA ring.

And what does Cell C intend to put up as collateral whilst bidding in the spectrum auction?

backstreetboy said:
They’ll be using their own spectrum on the MTN network...
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Or more precisely, Cell C would be giving MTN permission to provision some (in stages) of the spectrum licensed to Cell C, to be used on MTN towers.
 
I tried connecting on MTN but it failed. So I don't know if it's only by invitation or only for certain areas.
 
system32 said:
In 2010, Cell-C was forced to sell their towers assets to ATC (American Tower Corporation), and then rented capacity from ATC.

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I suspect MTN is just cheaper to use than ATC.
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That's just the towers and tower space. They will decomission their radio equipment and simple use MTN's radio network, I think they still keeping their core and billing infrastructure. MTN is using Cell C's spectrum
 
Am I correct in thinking that by enabling roaming on my phone, it will then use my airtime for internet-related things like browsing and WhatsApp? (Mine is permanently set to use ONLY wi-fi for internet.)
 
Tector said:
No. Will still use wifi
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Fantastic, thanks! But then if I'm not able to use wi-fi (e.g. I go out somewhere), will it then change to use my airtime? At the moment, the way I have it set up, if there is no wi-fi, the internet and WhatsApp, etc. just won't work (else it chows airtime like crazy).
 
Vanessa13 said:
Fantastic, thanks! But then if I'm not able to use wi-fi (e.g. I go out somewhere), will it then change to use my airtime? At the moment, the way I have it set up, if there is no wi-fi, the internet and WhatsApp, etc. just won't work (else it chows airtime like crazy).
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The same settings should apply when roaming as on normal data
 
Vanessa13 said:
Fantastic, thanks! But then if I'm not able to use wi-fi (e.g. I go out somewhere), will it then change to use my airtime? At the moment, the way I have it set up, if there is no wi-fi, the internet and WhatsApp, etc. just won't work (else it chows airtime like crazy).
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So you have mobile data turned off. Roaming won't override that.
 
Well I guess you can only go up from here..... :rolleyes:

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