What Cell C's network really looks like

Am I the only one who took the bait in the hope of seeing actual photo's of equipment, sites and server rooms?
 
(4 Nov 2017)
Cell C’s mobile network boasts over 5,000 sites, with more than 50% of these sites offering LTE-A to subscribers.
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(6 June 2017) The South African cities covered by Rain’s LTE-A network
First announced in September 2016, the Rain LTE-A network of currently 750 active base stations, and increasing daily, already extends across South Africa’s major centres and metropolitan areas. The company is on target to reach 2,000 sites by the end of the year, and expects to increase its footprint to 5,000 base stations by 2018, and ultimately growing to 10,000 sites over time.
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Sounds like Cell-C has some competition
 
FlashSA said:
Am I the only one who took the bait in the hope of seeing actual photo's of equipment, sites and server rooms?
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I've always pictured Cell C's equipment looking like this:


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Although Cell C has a 3G roaming agreement with Vodacom, this is only used in rural areas where it does not make financial sense for it to roll out a network.
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This is incorrect, I roam on West Street in Sandton.
 
backstreetboy said:
Works great here. If only more people joined and they could scale it up but no it's easier to complain.
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Actually, people do move over to Cell C only to discover that it is a rubbish network compared to their previous networks and then go back where they come from. I am one of those who suffered poor network after porting from Vodacom for four full years. Never going to consider Cell C again unless some miracle happens and they actually do more than talking.
 
Dups! said:
Actually, people do move over to Cell C only to discover that it is a rubbish network compared to their previous networks and then go back where they come from. I am one of those who suffered poor network after porting from Vodacom for four full years. Never going to consider Cell C again unless some miracle happens and they actually do more than talking.
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I have never read such rubbish
I have zero dropped calls now and had them almost always on Vodacom
The quality of VC calls was absolute **** going from stereo to mono all the time in call that's the only way to explain it. HD voice calling my ass
Don't even get me started on the OOB and the actual cost of the contract
I was with Vodacom from the start moving to cell c once and then MTN and then back to VC now back with cell c.
I only have issues in Eastgate and Bedford centre and it puts me on roaming
That's it.

For 999 I get 10 gigs 5000 minutes and 5000 SMS
Funny thing is on cell c I never use more than 500 or 700 minutes
On Vodacom I miraculously always used more
 
Jumped ship from Vodacon and been with CellC for 6 years now... never had any issues. Data speeds are great too.
 
Still waiting for LTE in Bloem. Every other network has LTE and LTE-A here, even Rain is here, but I guess we're not "urban" enough for Cell C.
 
RedViking said:
Why wait? Jump to another network. If rain was available in my area I wouldn't think twice to say goodbye to Telkom aka Openserve.
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I'm happy with my ADSL for fixed line, so not too interested in Rain atm. I am however considering Telkom Mobile for my phone, just not looking forward to porting and proving to my bank again that my sim wasn't swapped for fraudulent purposes. Can't do internet banking without my phone -.-

At least my HSDPA is working well enough for now that I'm not too bothered by Cell C, but when their network dies off again due to congestion I might just jump ship.
 
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