{"id":234880,"date":"2017-11-04T15:27:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T13:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=234880"},"modified":"2017-11-04T15:28:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T13:28:17","slug":"what-cell-cs-network-really-looks-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/234880-what-cell-cs-network-really-looks-like.html","title":{"rendered":"What Cell C’s network really looks like"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cell C\u2019s mobile network boasts over 5,000 sites, with more than 50% of these sites offering LTE-A to subscribers.<\/p>\n

This is according to Bjorn Flormann, Chief Executive of Cell C\u2019s Wholesale Business, who was speaking at the 2017 MyBroadband Conference.<\/p>\n

Flormann told delegates that Cell C has 95% 3G population coverage, and there is a strong focus on LTE in urban areas.<\/p>\n

The operator also has over 6,000km of backhaul fibre, which serves its LTE and LTE-A sites to ensure great mobile data performance.<\/p>\n

Cell C carries around 10 petabytes of data and half a billion calls per month on its network, said Flormann.<\/p>\n

Roaming<\/h3>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Cell C\u2019s network carries nearly all the traffic from its subscribers, with roaming traffic only accounting for a small fraction, said\u00a0Flormann.<\/p>\n

Flormann added that Cell C now has over 16 million subscribers on its network.<\/p>\n

This is only the beginning, with Cell C continuing to invest billions in network infrastructure, he said.<\/p>\n

His statements come after\u00a0Blue Label Telecoms co-CEO Brett Levy said\u00a0Cell C will build South Africa\u2019s best urban 4G network.<\/p>\n

He said Cell C will not get into a network investment war with Vodacom and MTN, and rather focus on urban areas.<\/p>\n

Now read:\u00a0Impressive exhibitions at the 2017 MyBroadband Conference<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many people underestimate the quality of Cell C\u2019s mobile network, which is improving all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":234996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[46910,4064,355,35],"class_list":["post-234880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-bjorn-flormann","tag-brett-levy","tag-cell-c","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234880"}],"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=234880"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236242,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234880\/revisions\/236242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}