Cell C CTO resigns

Jeffrey Hedberg, Chief Executive Officer of Cell C said Obeid had been instrumental in ensuring that Cell C’s network and technology compared with the best in the world.

“He has played a significant role in ensuring that Cell C is able to offer its customers a reliable and quality network.”
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i beg to differ. the only thing that is "best in the world" about cellc's network is ability to generate income: since they are using this pseudo "per-second" billing, it means they get to make more money every time u get cut off because u get charged the full cost per minute for every 1st minute or part thereof.

so every time u get disconnected after 10 seconds in2 ur call, ka-ching ka-ching for them. scammers if u ask me!
 
Cell C recently migrated its core network to a world-class Huawei core switching network. The new core network is fully 3G ready and aligned with 3G standards. Cell C is currently the only network operator in South Africa with a combined 3G/2G network.
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Looks like everyones going with Huawei!!
I wonder who owns it, must be making a pretty packet!!
Oh its that guy lol!:p
 
JK8 said:
Looks like everyones going with Huawei!!
I wonder who owns it, must be making a pretty packet!!
Oh its that guy lol!:p
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Huawei presents value for money and with a limited budget like Cell C's it any other company would be hard pressed to beat Huawei. And I hear they get great support.
 
Hi Supersunbird

I missed that part...will have to ask them about that...
 
@supersunbird

That also confused me! Lets hope that they will activate their 3G network sooner rather than latter. More competition is what we need.
 
Maybe this makes more sense?

Cell C recently migrated its core network to a world-class Huawei core switching network. The new core network is fully 3G ready and aligned with 3G standards. Cell C is currently the only network operator in South Africa with a combined 3G/2G network.
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When will they switch on 3G, if the above is true?
 
Jeffrey Hedberg, Chief Executive Officer of Cell C said Obeid had been instrumental in ensuring that Cell C’s network and technology compared with the best in the world.

“He has played a significant role in ensuring that Cell C is able to offer its customers a reliable and quality network.”
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Ah. So that is why he is leaving then...mission accomplished :rolleyes:
 
supersunbird said:
No ook, what doesn't make sense is that the article says they are the only operator with a 2G/3G network. What are the other operators on then? All our calls on 3G and no gprs anywhere?
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I suspect they mean a single vendor, i.e. one set of kit support 2G and 3G.

Vodacom uses different vendors for 2G and 3G, for example.

Pros and cons to both.

Single vendor *should* mean better integration, less complexity, etc. but they've got you by the short and curlies (if their 'next-big-thing' is late, you have to wait, for example).

Multi-vendor can be more challenging to integrate but you have the leverage to follow the best technology path.

Huawei, BTW, is impressing many people at the moment.
 
I am still waiting for the official reply from Cell C regarding the 2G/3G network. They may have meant something else which got lost between the technical guys and the PR department.
 
rpm said:
I am still waiting for the official reply from Cell C regarding the 2G/3G network. They may have meant something else which got lost between the technical guys and the PR department.
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Yeah, probably its what Vodacom3G said. Single source of equipment.
 
2G/3G

From what I know MTN and Vodacom were 3G capable before Cell-C, using Rel99 and evolving only now to Rel 4 architecture?

Since 2005 Vodacom and MTN have deployed 3G using a single core vendor

The access side may have different vendors, but this article refers to core.
 
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