Here is what will happen when Cell C shuts down its network

[susefan]

Lets hope soon means sometime before 2021, could certainly do with some of that mtn speed

All Cell C network traffic will move to MTN – But not until it can pay its bills

MTN will migrate all of Cell C’s network traffic onto its own radio network once the mobile operator has completed its recapitalisation.

mybroadband.co.za

 

[genetic]

I don't know if nothing will change. If it costs more to roam off MTN those costs will be passed on.

I'm saying nothing will change from a user perspective. Costs change all the time.

I'm pretty happy on Cell C. Been with them for 10 years. Call quality is great - HD voice calling and WiFi voice calling too. Never had a call drop. Don't use them primarily for data, have a Rain sim card for that - but rain 4G sucks balls, so often fall back on Cell C for data, and usually get solid results.

 

[Totempole]

Craigie Stevenson dismissed this view, saying apart from not having a radio access network, they remain a fully-fledged mobile operator.

... and apart from having an engine and wheels, I own a fully-fledged car.

 

[genetic]

... and apart from having an engine and wheels, I own a fully-fledged car.

Yip. Cell C are bullsh*tting everyone. They're now a MVNO.

#dealwithit.

 

[susefan]

Will MTN use CellC spectrum to serve MTN clients?

 

[chakniks]

All Cell C network traffic will move to MTN – But not until it can pay its bills

MTN will migrate all of Cell C’s network traffic onto its own radio network once the mobile operator has completed its recapitalisation.

mybroadband.co.za

Considering Cell C's financial woes, the migration might not happen soon then

 

[neoprema]

As an MTN user if y’all move over to our network and our service goes downhill I’m gonna me miffed
And I’m not going back to Vodaspam. I left them 5 years ago and I still get spammed calls from all their WASPS they sold my number to trying to sell me a Vodacom contract.

 

[cavedog]

Will MTN use CellC spectrum to serve MTN clients?

That is the big question. Fine MTN will run Cellc network but will MTN use the same spectrum to serve their own clients?

I reckon they will and just like they do now create a cellc plmid for their network. Pretty much what Rain and Vodacom is doing now. Rain towers broadcasting Vodacom plmid.

 

[Moto Guzzi]

Look at this Cell nonsens over 30 years:

SA Post Office Telecommunications.....
....Telkom Appears(1990's).....Ongoing.
Telkom create Vodacom.
MTN appears....On going
Telkom sell Vodacom-Why
Telkom creates 8Ta...Looks it became Telkom Mobile
Cell C Appears...........?

To me this scenario looks like a fiasco....? Why all this-?

 

[Thor]

I don't see pricing in the article, but either way, it's a hardware change - Cell C as a provider for the end user remains unchanged. As for FNB and their network, they will still run on Cell C.

Was the article from yesterday or the day before there was a flurty of rehashed CELL C info, where te CEO said they will raise prices.

But then being a MVNO I would imagine they have little say in their cost since MTN will determine what they are charged, they are using MTNs hardware after all.

 

[airborne]

Cell C surely can't be moth balling all their base stations, MTN must be absorbing all the physical network locations, well least all the valuable ones.

Establishing a base station is quite an expensive exercise and not always in optimal locations, Cell C has some good native coverage in some areas, can't see all that getting tossed.

 

[supersunbird]

As an MTN user if y’all move over to our network and our service goes downhill I’m gonna me miffed
And I’m not going back to Vodaspam. I left them 5 years ago and I still get spammed calls from all their WASPS they sold my number to trying to sell me a Vodacom contract.

WASPs selling contracts? Thanks, I didn't know that's what WASPs did...

 

[markings]

In the MVNO column shouldn't it refer to MTN and not Cell C?

 

[ands45]

Just please don't ruin my nice MTN speeds, otherwise hopefully will improve my second sims (through Standard Bank) speeds, currently it is pretty useless

 

[neoprema]

WASPs selling contracts? Thanks, I didn't know that's what WASPs did...

well whatever they're called, they're resellers of Vodacom's data packages. 99% of them are trying to sell me stupid data packages.

 

[Marcan]

Cell C surely can't be moth balling all their base stations, MTN must be absorbing all the physical network locations, well least all the valuable ones.

Establishing a base station is quite an expensive exercise and not always in optimal locations, Cell C has some good native coverage in some areas, can't see all that getting tossed.

Well, that seems to be happening. I am residing in a small town , where the Telkom/Cell C tower is the nearset and served us well in this part of town the best. Telkom never put its own Telkom Mobile kit on there. Now Cell C first switched off this tower, and later took all its aerials and transmission stuff from the tower. We have to rely now on the combined VC/MTN tower much further away.

 

[marine1]

I'm saying nothing will change from a user perspective. Costs change all the time.

I'm pretty happy on Cell C. Been with them for 10 years. Call quality is great - HD voice calling and WiFi voice calling too. Never had a call drop. often fall back on Cell C for data, and usually get solid results.

I have the exact opposite experience but at least they are cheaper than Vodascum

 

[backstreetboy]

Was the article from yesterday or the day before there was a flurty of rehashed CELL C info, where te CEO said they will raise prices.

But then being a MVNO I would imagine they have little say in their cost since MTN will determine what they are charged, they are using MTNs hardware after all.

Really? Afrihost Air mobile has had their own costs. Not cheap enough but surely cheaper than MTN.

 

[dotcat]

That is the big question. Fine MTN will run Cellc network but will MTN use the same spectrum to serve their own clients?

I reckon they will and just like they do now create a cellc plmid for their network. Pretty much what Rain and Vodacom is doing now. Rain towers broadcasting Vodacom plmid.

So at the moment the MTN towers broadcast the Cell C plmid using MTN's spectrum block. With the the change it seems like MTN will broadcast the Cell C plmid using Cell C's spectrum. It does help that they have exactly the same spectrum.

 

[cavedog]

So at the moment the MTN towers broadcast the Cell C plmid using MTN's spectrum block. With the the change it seems like MTN will broadcast the Cell C plmid using Cell C's spectrum. It does help that they have exactly the same spectrum.

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Exactly. So MTN will just add Cellc spectrum to all it's towers and just broadcast the Cellc plmid on all the towers giving Cellc users access to a lot of extra spectrum but also give MTN users access to Cellc spectrum. MTN can just hand over the Cellc traffic to it at Teraco or where ever Cellc wants it and they deal with it from there.

I think if it happens like that it will definitely be against the ICASA license terms.