Cell C launches LCR AnyNet - a telecoms 'game changer'

I don't understand how this is a game changer. Can I get a CellC LCRAnyNet SIM for my phone? If not then why not just use a normal VoIP provider and get better rates than 99c/60c?
 
Does anyone know if this is billed per second or per minute?
 
Vince0 said:
I don't understand how this is a game changer. Can I get a CellC LCRAnyNet SIM for my phone? If not then why not just use a normal VoIP provider and get better rates than 99c/60c?
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I agree with you, if not why is it so?
 
“LCR AnyNet will reduce the cost oftelecommunications for business and will bring down the barrier to entry forsmall businesses hoping to take advantage of least cost routing,” said Alan Knott-Craig, Cell C CEO."

Need more space bar! :D
 
Thought LCR was a dead horse.
I think it still is.

R150 minimum subscription + Billed calls = a huge bill!!
Ps is the article correct? you cant state minimum R150?!
 
Vince0 said:
I don't understand how this is a game changer. Can I get a CellC LCRAnyNet SIM for my phone?
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jikajoe1 said:
I agree with you, if not why is it so?
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"LCR AnyNet will cost a minimum of R150 per SIM per month". Didnt say there was a restriction about what you can put it into. Voip is only useful if you have a good data connection.
 
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Haldex said:
Thought LCR was a dead horse.
I think it still is.

R150 minimum subscription + Billed calls = a huge bill!!
Ps is the article correct? you cant state minimum R150?!
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I understood it as a credit value min per month, if not it is a non-starter. On innovation, I assume they are using GSM and pretending it is something special as there is no way they would do VOIP over the Vodacom GPRS network (roaming). Thus they are actually just falling in to line with more reasonable mobile rates, nothing more. Nice to see Cell C getting out in front again, I hope those prices are per second if they really want to compete though.

Note this will be cheaper than normal VOIP services provided the R150 is credit for people who do not do a huge amount of calls. I just hope the device is essentially a small SIP server so it will be digital to digital - no analogue conversion for the phones!
 
SME's? We need one of these in every home, especially one with teenagers
 
Bern said:
I understood it as a credit value min per month, if not it is a non-starter. On innovation, I assume they are using GSM and pretending it is something special as there is no way they would do VOIP over the Vodacom GPRS network (roaming). Thus they are actually just falling in to line with more reasonable mobile rates, nothing more. Nice to see Cell C getting out in front again, I hope those prices are per second if they really want to compete though.

Note this will be cheaper than normal VOIP services provided the R150 is credit for people who do not do a huge amount of calls. I just hope the device is essentially a small SIP server so it will be digital to digital - no analogue conversion for the phones!
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How would it compare to the current offerings?
Eg: Vodacom T500, charged calls at R1.20/min + 500 free minutes.
Interconnect fees should drop again in September? As per Icasa?

It may be cheaper than VOiP now, but prices are dropping rapidly. In another 12 months, this is a dead service, a working service, but nether cheap nor expensive for that matter.

I wonder whats their market research and there forecasts for this service... would be interesting to know.
 
Haldex said:
How would it compare to the current offerings?
Eg: Vodacom T500, charged calls at R1.20/min + 500 free minutes.
Interconnect fees should drop again in September? As per Icasa?

It may be cheaper than VOiP now, but prices are dropping rapidly. In another 12 months, this is a dead service, a working service, but nether cheap nor expensive for that matter.

I wonder whats their market research and there forecasts for this service... would be interesting to know.
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The current offerings are actually VOIP with set priority, they get a set amount of bandwidth per VOIP stream and you are allowed one stream at a time per SIM. GSM is just old tech which is less efficient, like GPRS vs HSDPA on normal data. The biggest advantage of using new "VOIP" is that id does not run over the GSM system, which means in time they could refarm that spectrum to a more efficient technology (maybe not all of it for legacy devices, but most of it). That is the whole idea with LTE and being able to manage the bandwidth carefully so you can have some of your bandwidth prioritised (for VOIP) and the rest not - but have more overall bandwidth to play with in the same spectrum allocation.

You do make a good point on the falling interconnect - I believe they could probably drop the prices now and still be profitable, but who wants to make less money? That and for VC and MTN their spectrum allocation supporting so many users on old tech means they may actually struggle to support all the calls if their users all make 10x the number of calls during peak times which is probably a factor as well. Hell I get plenty of network busy in CT during peak times at high traffic locations.
 
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