{"id":29192,"date":"2011-07-15T10:14:57","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T08:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=29192"},"modified":"2011-07-15T14:25:35","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T12:25:35","slug":"cell-c-population-coverage-over-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/29192-cell-c-population-coverage-over-60.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell C population coverage over 60%"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former CEO of Cell C<\/a>, Lars Reichelt<\/a>, said in an update on his personal Twitter account yesterday (14 July 2011) that Cell C has achieved over 60% population coverage<\/a> on their 900 MHz HSPA+ network.<\/p>\n

He also re-iterated their goal of reaching over 90% population coverage by the end of the year (2011).<\/p>\n

It isn\u2019t clear at what signal strength Cell C measures their population coverage at this stage.<\/p>\n

Reichelt\u00a0said at this year’s IIR Broadband Summit that 900 MHz signals, used in Cell C’s HSPA+ network, propagate further than UMTS2100, the technology used by many other 3G networks. According to Reichelt, this allows HSPA+ 900 to still work at the relatively low signal strength of -115 dBm.<\/p>\n

MyBroadband was previously told by Cell C that they measure using a signal strength of -85 dBm as the cutoff.\u00a0However, it is understood that -85 dBm is a higher than normal cutoff for coverage measurements and that Cell C will address questions about how they measure coverage at their next press conference.<\/p>\n

\"Cell

Cell C hits 60% percent population coverage - Lars Reichelt<\/p><\/div>\n

When Cell C officially launched their own 3G network in September 2010, Reichelt publicly set some bold coverage targets for the company<\/a>. He said that Cell C wanted to reach 34% population coverage by the end of 2010, and extend this even further to 67% coverage by mid-2011.<\/p>\n

These targets were quite ambitious when one considers that MTN<\/a> had only covered 48% of South Africans with their 3G network by 2010, and that it took Vodacom<\/a> approximately 5 years to achieve 50% population coverage.<\/p>\n

The next self-imposed milestone for Cell C is to achieve 97% population coverage<\/a> by the end of 2011.<\/p>\n

Cell C has promised to speak to issues such as their population coverage at a media briefing that is yet to be scheduled. Cell C has postponed the press event to announce their year-end results twice due to Department of Communications (DoC) press briefings that were called on short notice.<\/p>\n

\"Lars<\/a>

Lars Reichelt, former Cell C CEO<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lars Reichelt, ex-CEO of Cell C, announced on Twitter yesterday that Cell C has covered over 60% of the South African population with their HSPA+ network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":28794,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14,13],"tags":[355,35,339,1675,42,41],"class_list":["post-29192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","category-cellular","category-wireless","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-hspa","tag-lars-reichelt","tag-mtn","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29192"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29196,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29192\/revisions\/29196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}