{"id":379,"date":"2007-06-22T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-22T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-06-22T11:46:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-22T09:46:00","slug":"critics-complain-about-cell-c-s-free-weekend-call-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/379-critics-complain-about-cell-c-s-free-weekend-call-conditions.html","title":{"rendered":"Critics complain about Cell C\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Free Weekend Call Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Cellular operator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cellc.co.za\" target=\"_blank\">Cell C<\/a> recently launched a souped-up version of the popular Woza Weekend offering and will allow free calls between Cell C subscribers over weekends. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&ldquo;Starting at midnight on Friday, 22 June, Woza Weekend will change the way Cell C subscribers connect with each other on weekends as Cell C to Cell C calls will be free,&rdquo; Cell C said.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">But this offer is subject to conditions which drew criticism from some sources.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">To qualify for the 120 free on-net weekend minutes Cell C pre-paid customers must recharge at least once a week while contract subscribers are required to have used up all their free minutes first.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">This may restrict the benefits of the new Cell C offer to a only portion of their subscriber base which drew sharp criticism from some consumers. &ldquo;Utterly useless if you have a contract \/ talk minutes which you try to make last the month,&rdquo; said one consumer. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The general feedback about Cell C&rsquo;s free weekend minutes however remains positive with consumers who are now looking towards Vodacom and MTN to match or better Cell C&rsquo;s offer.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=79047\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C recently announced free weekend calls to its subscribers, but it is not without its critics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}