{"id":548810,"date":"2006-05-16T16:03:38","date_gmt":"2006-05-16T16:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548810-cell-c-gets-new-ceo.html"},"modified":"2006-05-16T16:03:38","modified_gmt":"2006-05-16T16:03:38","slug":"cell-c-gets-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548810-cell-c-gets-new-ceo.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell C gets new CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">Talaat Laham remains chairman of Cell C in a non-executive capacity. He will continue to be the company\u2019s foremost ambassador, focused on strategic issues now that his role of non-executive chairman has been separated from that of the CEO, in line with corporate governance best practice,<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cI believe that as Cell C\u2019s non-executive chairman I will be able to guide and advise the company as it moves into its next phase of development. It will also give me more time to be with my family,\u201d says Laham.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">In the six years under Laham\u2019s executive leadership, Cell C has grown from being the bidder for the third mobile licence to a significant player with close to three million active subscribers, and a market share of 10% in SA\u2019s mobile telecommunications market as of December 31, 2005. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The company, now over 2 000 employees strong, recently posted its first positive annual Ebitda results of R442m on 2005 revenues of R5,5bn. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Based on this solid foundation, the Board of Cell C believes that a leader of Hedberg\u2019s depth and breadth of experience will be well positioned to further grow Cell C\u2019s market share and operating profit.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cSA is one of the most promising and growing emerging market economies and a leader in the introduction of cellular services. I am delighted to join Cell C,\u201d says Hedberg. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Our mandate will be to drive market share while improving operational efficiency across all levels of the business,\u201d he adds.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">As the CEO and chairman of Deutsche Telekom, USA, Hedberg directed the financial and operational performance of the business, including the governance of US subsidiaries T-Mobile and T-Systems, while overseeing a number of public policy issues in Washington, DC.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=43581\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C has announced that Jeffrey Hedberg, former CEO and chairman of Deutsche Telekom, USA, and member of the board of management of Deutsche Telekom AG, has been appointed as CEO of Cell C.<\/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-548810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548810"}],"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=548810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}