{"id":126250,"date":"2015-05-13T10:42:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T08:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=126250"},"modified":"2015-05-13T14:25:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T12:25:31","slug":"massive-increase-in-cell-c-data-traffic-revenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/126250-massive-increase-in-cell-c-data-traffic-revenue.html","title":{"rendered":"Massive increase in Cell C data traffic, revenue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Data traffic on Cell C’s network has increased by\u00a044%, with data revenues increasing 59% between the first quarter of 2014 and Q1 2015.<\/p>\n

Cell C\u2019s chief financial officer Robert Pasley said that data represents 30% of the company’s service revenue.<\/p>\n

He also said that the majority of Cell C’s\u00a0service revenue comes from prepaid subscribers.<\/p>\n

Pasley said prepaid spend increased 17% year-on-year, while contract revenue remained flat.<\/p>\n

Total service revenue increased 2%, despite a decline in revenue from mobile call termination rates of 18%.<\/p>\n

Total revenue increased by 3% year-on-year.<\/p>\n

Cell C has also seen an increase in subscribers between 2014 and 2015. The table below summarises the operators subscriber numbers as at March 2015.<\/p>\n

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Cell C subscriber base<\/td>\nMarch 2015 subscribers<\/td>\nYear-on-year %<\/td>\nChange since December 2014<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Prepaid<\/td>\n17.7m<\/td>\n35%<\/td>\n17%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Contract<\/td>\n2.2m<\/td>\n2%<\/td>\n13%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Other<\/td>\n0.5m<\/td>\n22%<\/td>\n-2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Total<\/td>\n20.4m<\/td>\n28%<\/td>\n16%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Cell C has reported growth in revenue and subscribers, and a reduction in costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":74539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[355,35],"class_list":["post-126250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-cell-c","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126250"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126280,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126250\/revisions\/126280"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}