Cell C LTE here in 2015

Nice to read Cell C has been upgrading and planning their network upgrades. Would love to have Cell C LTE up in Port Elizabeth at the very least :)

I cant even get decent EDGE on Cell C where I am staying, in East London...so sad :(
 
Napalm2880 said:
This is still not going to convince me to renew my contract. For the last year I've been stuck with call drop rates >60%, poor call quality and no data throughput in areas where I have full signal.

They've burnt their customers with their failed network and poor service and have fallen behind all the other operators including Telkom mobile.
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^ this. Sh*t data throughput for the length of my contract (over 18 months now), dropped calls, missed calls, cant-hear-anything calls. No thanks. I'm starting to actually believe this "you pay more for better network quality" story that I've seen punted by Vodacom (iirc).

EDIT: I've ALWAYS got almost 2GB of CellC data "in the bank" that's simply carried over from month to month. Why? ....because I can never actually use it :mad:

kingrob said:
I laughed out loud when I read the topic.

Feel so bad. :(
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So did I. But I don't feel bad :D
 
SteveO said:
Nope, maybe the "RAN upgrades" they speak of will improve something. However LTE will do nothing for 90% of their subscribers as most of them will not have/can not afford LTE devices.

Until the number of LTE devices jumps to 40-50% of the subscriber base, there will be no benefit to 2G and 3G only customers.

However, as Cell C is using its "4GS" spectrum for LTE, this means that some 3G/HSPA capacity will decrease...so its a give and take between the two.

So probably in 5 years time the quality will improve :)
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SteveO is the 4GS the 900 band?

I suspect most of the heavy users are the newer Smartphone guys and the data dongle/wifi users - all the newer smartphones have LTE, so that should reduce the 3G+ load a lot since moving the higher load people on to a medium that can sustain more data throughput for the same band space should then make the reduced 3G space less congested (maybe at the expense of top en speeds I guess).

I would love to see the planned LTE roll out plans as I am busy deciding whether or not to stick with Cell C or make the dreaded move back to one of the big boys. Cell C still have the best call rates and really good data prices, hard to stomach the other providers' ridiculously high rates - you would think everyone standardises on 99c for local now, then when you look at the international rates Cell C really smashes the competition. R5/min or more to phone major EU or US numbers is just crazy, not sure how the others can still justify these prices since the cost to them is almost nothing.
 
This should be good at least for now before many have LTE devices. Hopefully there will be enough backhaul on their towers so the few who are able to access the LTE network will experience blazing throughputs.
 
I had the Cell C LTE 100GB package, which came with the sim and a E3276 dongle.

Worked good, but after a few months they cancelled it a few months before the prepaid time was up. When I got it back, I never got LTE back and only 3G services as they said they don't support LTE.

The MTN LTE I am using is head and shoulders faster than what I got with Cell C in La Lucia.
 
whatwhat said:
I had the Cell C LTE 100GB package, which came with the sim and a E3276 dongle.

Worked good, but after a few months they cancelled it a few months before the prepaid time was up. When I got it back, I never got LTE back and only 3G services as they said they don't support LTE.

The MTN LTE I am using is head and shoulders faster than what I got with Cell C in La Lucia.
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They did the same with mine - After buying the LTE sim & E3276 intro offer they disconnected us from connecting to the LTE service,a manual search proved the service was still alive.Escalated this as far as i could & they still wouldn't reopen the service.
Got the modem still if anyone wants to buy one, i wish you luck.
 
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