{"id":46660,"date":"2012-03-28T13:22:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T11:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=46660"},"modified":"2012-03-28T13:58:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T11:58:01","slug":"cell-c-to-offer-iphone-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/46660-cell-c-to-offer-iphone-soon.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell C to offer iPhone soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Cell C\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/213919-Cell-C\">Cell C<\/a> has reached an agreement with <a title=\"Apple\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342717-Apple-inc\">Apple<\/a> and will soon start to offer products such as the iPhone to South Africans.<\/p>\n<p>To date Cell C has not offered the popular iPhone to customers, but new Cell C CEO <a title=\"Alan Knott-Craig\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/224891-Alan-Knott-Craig-(Senior)\">Alan Knott-Craig<\/a> said that they will launch the iPhone within the next few months.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2008 Vodacom was the first company to offer the iPhone <a title=\"3G\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/224878-3G\">3G<\/a> in South Africa in an exclusive agreement with Apple.<\/p>\n<p>After Vodacom\u2019s exclusivity agreement expired, MTN also began offering the iPhone to their subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>8ta previously said that it was in discussions with Apple about launching the iPhone in South Africa, but no further details have been made available about their progress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur NDA with Apple prevents us from commenting about iPhone at this time,\u201d said <a title=\"Amith Maharaj\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/276004-Amith-Maharaj\">Amith Maharaj<\/a>, senior managing executive at <a title=\"Telkom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227037-Telkom\">Telkom<\/a> Mobile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Next iPhone to feature bigger display\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/46214-next-iphone-to-feature-4-6-inch-display.html\"><strong>Next iPhone to feature 4.6 inch display?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C has signed an agreement with Apple and will start to offer the iPhone and related products to the market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35272,"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":[473,681,469,605,355,35,1125,42,41],"class_list":["post-46660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-8ta","tag-alan-knott-craig","tag-amith-maharaj","tag-apple","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-iphone","tag-mtn","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46660"}],"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=46660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46666,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46660\/revisions\/46666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}