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

[supersunbird]

Look at this Cell nonsens over 30 years:

SA Post Office Telecommunications.....
Telkom divided from Post Office (1991).....Ongoing.
Telkom create Vodacom in 50/50 collaboration with Vodaphone in 1994 .....Ongoing.
MTN appears in 1994 .....Ongoing.
Cell C appears in 2001 .....Ongoing.
Telkom sell its remaining stake in Vodacom in 2008 - Why?
Telkom launches 8ta in 2010...it became Telkom Mobile and then just Telkom .....Ongoing.

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

FTFY. It looks like a fiasco cause you got time lines and a bunch of other stuff wrong, so I have fixed it for you.

Telkom knows selling stake in very profitable Vodacom was wrong ,they probably thought they could do it more profitably on own at the time.

 

[John Tempus]

Their CEO says Cell C won't be a MNVO, something about still owning their core or some such, it's in one of those "Cell C CEO says funny things" articles that were done here recently.

Yup the Cell C CEO is quite a funny bunny. Just a few days ago an article stated that Cell C is fine and the losses is all due to X and Y but nothing to be concerned over along with an article from Cell stating Vodacom and MTN is running a losing business bla bla bla and then few days later, "Cell C is shutting down".

I guess this is what happens when you have a schitzo CEO running your company, always kicking the blame bucket down the street.

 

[upup]

Cell C wasted big on those ATC towers,

 

[Thor]

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

More expensive than Cell C R2000 for 200GB

 

[Margi Naidoo]

What will happen to people who are on contract with Cell C?

 

[backstreetboy]

What will happen to people who are on contract with Cell C?

Business as usual...

 

[supersunbird]

What will happen to people who are on contract with Cell C?

Nothing, since Cell C is still existing...

 

[jbroo]

I hope Rain buys some of their equipment and spectrum, clearly their existing infrastructure is insufficient for all the customers they bait into using their service.

 

[Swa]

I hope Rain buys some of their equipment and spectrum, clearly their existing infrastructure is insufficient for all the customers they bait into using their service.

They can't sell their spectrum.

 

[jbroo]

They can't sell their spectrum.

They could bid when it goes on auction surely?

 

[Swa]

They could bid when it goes on auction surely?

Which spectrum. The spectrum going on auction is open to everyone.

 

[backstreetboy]

They could bid when it goes on auction surely?

They're not selling their spectrum...