Full speed ahead for Cell C broadband express

I saw them doing a promotion for FNB Head office employees yesterday.
Way to go Cell C.
 
martin said:
I bought the 5GB deal yesterday afternoon and I was just blown away by how much Cell C had changed. From the moment I entered there store it was as if I was dealing with a completely different company from the Cell C I originally knew. No queues. The salesmen were extremely knowledgeable.
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I have posted on my satisfaction with Cell C's rates and speed, but never really made a point of the service I experienced in Cell C stores. I purchased not only my own %gb package, but a few for friends in Gauteng.

The service is excellent. The only part of Cell C that is an EPIC FAIL is the TellTrevor site. Not one of my questions have been answered, except for the automated response. I think Cell C and SA Rugby should get rid of the two comedians as they add absolutely NO value to eiter Cell C or SA Rugby
 
this is such a great offer, the only thing keeping me with telkom is cell c's top up rates. but I wish them all the best.
 
Nice of CellC but I live in a completely residential area with no signal, helps much?
 
Final 'gush' of the day. Just finished watching the entire SA - England rugby game on streaming using Cell C. It lagged once or twice in the first half. Not a single hiccup in the second half! This is something that I've never accomplished on a 4mbps ADSL line. Well done Cell C.

If only I could connect an uncapped account to this! :)
 
Martin, do you care to tell me which website you use for this? I ditched my DSTV service last month and am looking for good streaming sites.
 
So I bought myself the 2GB package with the 7.2MBPS modem. VERY NICELY DOES 3.6MBPS, I am so happy! Anything above 2MBPS is awesome for me. So I went to visit my parents thats outside the coverage area, so its using roaming now. The connection is slow, very slow. I wanted to update my AVG which is a 140mb download. I started the download 10AM and stopped last night at 1h30am @ 98% the speed just dropped from around 6kbytes a second to around 1kb to nothing. If you plan to travel outside the Cell C coverage area this unit useless. BUT inside the Coverage area this unit is brilliant!!! Screw u vodascum and helkom. I plan to cancel my 4MB ADSL line very soon.
 
jasweb said:
Care to share that streaming link "martin" ;)
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Plaasjapie said:
Martin, do you care to tell me which website you use for this? I ditched my DSTV service last month and am looking for good streaming sites.
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It was supersport.co.za, using my dad's smartcard number. Don't tell DSTV :)

There is another site out there though. Best PM for that one. Don't want to ruin a good thread :)
 
martin said:
I bought the 5GB deal yesterday afternoon and I was just blown away by how much Cell C had changed. From the moment I entered there store it was as if I was dealing with a completely different company from the Cell C I originally knew. No queues. The salesmen were extremely knowledgeable. I was offered real coffee. I was advised to check for coverage on their in-store computers before making the purchase. The out of bundle charges and everything else was clearly explained to me before making the purchase. Rica took a minute on their systems. When I asked for the service to only be activated in December so that I don't waste a 5GB bundle on the last four days of this month they went one better. They offered to activate it right now and this month's browsing would be free. My 5GB bundles will only commence from 1 December. Whole process from start to finish took 10 -15 pain-free minutes. By the time I was finished, I was convinced they had forgotten something. It was just too easy.

So far the speed is excellent. Even the dashboard is much better than VMC. It's got really nice graphs to track your usage. The sms and service interfaces work really well.
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Impressive!!!! +1 for CellC! Show those other providers how it's done.
 
martin said:
I bought the 5GB deal yesterday afternoon and I was just blown away by how much Cell C had changed. From the moment I entered there store it was as if I was dealing with a completely different company from the Cell C I originally knew. No queues. The salesmen were extremely knowledgeable. I was offered real coffee. I was advised to check for coverage on their in-store computers before making the purchase. The out of bundle charges and everything else was clearly explained to me before making the purchase. Rica took a minute on their systems. When I asked for the service to only be activated in December so that I don't waste a 5GB bundle on the last four days of this month they went one better. They offered to activate it right now and this month's browsing would be free. My 5GB bundles will only commence from 1 December. Whole process from start to finish took 10 -15 pain-free minutes. By the time I was finished, I was convinced they had forgotten something. It was just too easy.

So far the speed is excellent. Even the dashboard is much better than VMC. It's got really nice graphs to track your usage. The sms and service interfaces work really well.
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wow, great post.

I am so happy Cell C has finally come to the party.
 
wallsend said:
wow, great post.

I am so happy Cell C has finally come to the party.
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I'm glad to report a friend of mine who bought the 2GB package had a very similar experience to my own. Hope some more people post their experiences!

Since then I've watched an entire rugby game (SA vs England) streamed off Supersport's site with it only buffering a few times in the first half. Second half was completely uninterrupted. I've never been able to do this on a 4mbps ADSL line.
 
martin said:
I'm glad to report a friend of mine who bought the 2GB package had a very similar experience to my own. Hope some more people post their experiences!

Since then I've watched an entire rugby game (SA vs England) streamed off Supersport's site with it only buffering a few times in the first half. Second half was completely uninterrupted. I've never been able to do this on a 4mbps ADSL line.
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i watched a cricket game straight from my HTC Desire with no buffering at all, Cell C's network really is brilliant!!!
 
I have only one criticism of CellC's HSPA service [so far], and that is that CellC's coverage map sucks - specifically I cannot get it to zoom in far enough to determine if I am in the red patch or in the white patch which seems to float about in the general vicinity of my home.

Please could one of CellC's CEOs attend to the coverage map.

Meanwhile, I will have to get myself a pre-paid CellC SIM card, RICA it, and try put this temporary SIM into my HSPA device to see if there is any signal at all in my area, and then if there is I will load some credit and buy a data bundle [should be easy via Internet Banking - I hope].
 
ic said:
I have only one criticism of CellC's HSPA service [so far], and that is that CellC's coverage map sucks - specifically I cannot get it to zoom in far enough to determine if I am in the red patch or in the white patch which seems to float about in the general vicinity of my home.

Please could one of CellC's CEOs attend to the coverage map.

Meanwhile, I will have to get myself a pre-paid CellC SIM card, RICA it, and try put this temporary SIM into my HSPA device to see if there is any signal at all in my area, and then if there is I will load some credit and buy a data bundle [should be easy via Internet Banking - I hope].
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i'm not too sure that you've going to be able to get the pinpoint accuracy you expect...
surely the map is just an approximation based on topography vs elevation and range of the tower?
 
ic said:
I have only one criticism of CellC's HSPA service [so far], and that is that CellC's coverage map sucks - specifically I cannot get it to zoom in far enough to determine if I am in the red patch or in the white patch which seems to float about in the general vicinity of my home.

Please could one of CellC's CEOs attend to the coverage map.

Meanwhile, I will have to get myself a pre-paid CellC SIM card, RICA it, and try put this temporary SIM into my HSPA device to see if there is any signal at all in my area, and then if there is I will load some credit and buy a data bundle [should be easy via Internet Banking - I hope].
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They have a 7 day return policy if that's of any help
 
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