{"id":155192,"date":"2016-02-15T10:55:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T08:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=155192"},"modified":"2016-02-15T14:32:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T12:32:14","slug":"autopages-cell-c-subscribers-bought-by-glocell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/155192-autopages-cell-c-subscribers-bought-by-glocell.html","title":{"rendered":"Autopage&#8217;s Cell C subscribers not bought by GloCell &#8211; Cell C statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update<\/strong>:\u00a0Cell C has stated that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/155224-glocell-has-not-acquired-our-autopage-subscriber-base-cell-c.html\">GloCell has not acquired its Autopage subscriber base<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Original article<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Competition Commission has approved GloCell\u2019s acquisition of Autopage\u2019s Cell C subscriber base, as well as Cell C\u2019s intent to appoint GloCell Service Provider as the entrusted licensed partner.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 2001, GloCell is an independent cellular telecommunications group operating in South Africa &#8211; with Investec as a major shareholder.<\/p>\n<p>According to GloCell, it specialises in the provision of Cell C contracts, and the distribution of prepaid and virtual products from all networks to banks, petroleum companies, major retailers, wholesalers, and emerging markets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGloCell is in the process of taking over and rebranding many of Autopage\u2019s outlets nationally, upgrading these to become &#8220;experience&#8221; stores and rebranding them GloCell,\u201d said Alessandro Mariola, Founder and MD of GloCell.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More on the Autopage subscriber base sale<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/155088-autopages-subscriber-base-sale-approved-by-competition-tribunal.html\"><strong>Autopage\u2019s subscriber base sale approved by Competition Tribunal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/154834-vodacom-and-mtn-raise-prices-by-400-for-autopage-customers-report.html\"><strong>Vodacom and MTN raise prices by 400% for Autopage customers \u2013 Autopage responds<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/153111-altech-autopage-md-resigns.html\"><strong>Altech Autopage MD resigns<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: Cell C has stated that GloCell has not acquired its Autopage subscriber base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":113757,"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":[19,14],"tags":[36,35482,5926,355,35480],"class_list":["post-155192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-cellular","tag-active","tag-alessandro-mariola","tag-altech-autopage","tag-cell-c","tag-glocell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155192"}],"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=155192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155194,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155192\/revisions\/155194"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}