{"id":547827,"date":"2006-01-25T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2006-01-25T16:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547827-cell-c-s-subscriber-base-exceeds-3-million.html"},"modified":"2006-01-25T16:03:07","modified_gmt":"2006-01-25T16:03:07","slug":"cell-c-s-subscriber-base-exceeds-3-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547827-cell-c-s-subscriber-base-exceeds-3-million.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell C’s subscriber base exceeds 3 million"},"content":{"rendered":"

This represents an 18.5% increase from a reported 2.7 million customers as of end-September 2005. <\/font><\/p>\n

Cell C, South Africa’s third licensed cellular operator which is majority-owned by Saudi Arabia’s Oger Telecom, had approximately 670,000 post-paid subscribers, while pre-paid subscribers increased to 2.53 million as of year-end. <\/font><\/p>\n

Cell C was launched in November 2001 and has subsequently rolled out over 2,000 base stations across the country. <\/font><\/p>\n

It now carries over 80% of its own traffic.<\/font><\/p>\n

On Tuesday rival cell phone group Vodacom, which is 50% owned by Telkom (TKG), announced a 12.4% increase in its subscriber base for the three months to end-December 2005 to 21.5 million customers. <\/font><\/p>\n

This spanned South Africa, Tanzania, Mozambique, Lesotho and the DRC.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cell C has been engaged in discussions on a joint venture service with UK-based Virgin Mobile in the past few months. <\/font><\/p>\n

The company posted 54% increase in earnings before interest, tax, deprecation and amortisation to 134.5 million rand in the third quarter of its financial year to end-September. <\/font><\/p>\n

Total revenue for the quarter came in at 1.422 billion rand, a 35% rise on year-earlier levels. <\/font><\/p>\n

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Cellular phone operator Cell C’s net subscriber base has increased to 3.2 million as at the end of December 2005, the company said in a statement on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547827"}],"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=547827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}