{"id":31378,"date":"2011-08-11T15:02:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T13:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=31378"},"modified":"2011-08-11T15:05:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T13:05:33","slug":"cell-c-hspa-population-coverage-at-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/31378-cell-c-hspa-population-coverage-at-63.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell C HSPA+ population coverage at 63%"},"content":{"rendered":"

Population coverage for Cell C\u2019s<\/a> HSPA+ network is at 63%, chairman and acting CEO Simon Duffy<\/a> announced at a press briefing today (11 August 2011).<\/p>\n

Duffy went on to explain that Cell C\u2019s coverage comes from having their HSPA+ network live in 15 major cities, with 1,900 HSPA+ sites and 5,700 HSPA+ transmitters on air, supported by 3,700km of fibre optic cable.<\/p>\n

Former CEO Lars Reichelt<\/a> previously said on Twitter that Cell C had achieved over 60% population coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When Cell C first launched their HSPA+ network in September 2010, Reichelt publicly set some bold coverage targets for the company. 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

Although not by a large margin, Cell C have missed the target slightly, saying that they currently sit at 63% population coverage.<\/p>\n

It should be remembered that these targets were ambitious to begin with when you consider 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 by the end of 2011.<\/p>\n

To determine whether a particular area is covered, an operator has to decide what signal level they consider high enough for that area to have adequate service.<\/p>\n

Steve Boiles<\/a>, Cell C\u2019s executive head of network engineering, explained that for population coverage measurements Cell C uses a signal level of -105dBm, but for the coverage map on their website they use -95dBm.<\/p>\n

The coverage map uses the more conservative measurement so that customers can be assured a good quality of service in the areas it indicates as covered, Boiles said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cell C have officially confirmed that the population coverage on their HSPA+ network is over 60%<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":30996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[355,35,1675,3598,3612],"class_list":["post-31378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-lars-reichelt","tag-simon-duffy","tag-steve-boiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31378"}],"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=31378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31404,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31378\/revisions\/31404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}