Is Cell C's free calls enough?

But Cell C is staying positive that it will break even and double subscriber numbers by 2010. It has shifted its focus to the lower end of the market, because high-end users need more than voice and text messages: they also need high-speed internet access, and Cell C will have to invest heavily to offer that service.
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I disagree that only "high-end users need more than voice and text messages": CellC has over the years tried to target the youth market, but the youth of today want & need to be connected [to the Internet], and while CellC does have EDGE [2.75G], I don't believe CellC currently has the coverage or capacity to provide the youth market with the volume of data transfer that is possible using a 3.xG network. IMO Virgin Mobile SA made a serious mistake when it chose to use CellC's 2.75G network - there is a vast demand for data, and EDGE simply is not enough to capture the attention of data customers in large numbers.
 
HOWEVER Virgin still offers the best value for money - using Opera Mini on a Cell you can read and send a email for as little as two cents, same goes for a google search and a Wiki - now tell me there is not a market for that - people need to be able to be informed and save some money so that they can buy their kids iPods and 3K cell phones - heck they might even find out that what they want is just marketing
 
DragonLogos said:
HOWEVER Virgin still offers the best value for money - using Opera Mini on a Cell you can read and send a email for as little as two cents, same goes for a google search and a Wiki - now tell me there is not a market for that - people need to be able to be informed and save some money so that they can buy their kids iPods and 3K cell phones - heck they might even find out that what they want is just marketing
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It doesn't mean much though if you don't have reliability, which Cell C clearly doesn't at the moment. Any data usage on your cellphone is pretty cheap, even at R2/MB, due to the small amount of data that's actually transferred.
 
It seems the network was so tired that some customers could not make calls even on Monday. Cell C must solve this problem or it will lose clients, which it cannot afford to do.
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How is this possible? Do the network burn out over the weekend? :p
 
I have been using Virgin for about six months now - and waved goodbye to Telkom dial-up three months ago - in that time there has only been one bad spot (last week) - but as 50c says there has to be some cussing - but as with most things you have a back-up - which reminds me, Mrs Dragon's MTN service can also throw its toys out
 
Any "estimate" would be a wild guess at best. It seems to be impossible to get any financial info about Cell C.
 
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