{"id":550591,"date":"2006-10-20T12:11:32","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T12:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550591-cellc-slashed-weekend-rates.html"},"modified":"2006-10-20T12:11:32","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T12:11:32","slug":"cellc-slashed-weekend-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550591-cellc-slashed-weekend-rates.html","title":{"rendered":"CellC slashed weekend rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">This effectively brings the call cost to 50c a minute for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cellc.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CellC<\/a> customers calling their friends also on the network over the weekend.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">This new deal has been dubbed \u2018Woza Weekend\u2019 with CellC\u2019s postpaid and controlchat subscribers automatically qualifying for the new rate. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Prepaid customers wanting to take advantage of this offer will need a minimum balance of R15 in their account to be eligible.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The weekend rate begins on Friday at midnight and extends until midnight on Sunday.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">This slash in call rates is yet another effort to reward our more than three million customers, and it also showcases our commitment to our core value proposition of offering our customers simplicity, choice and more importantly, value,\u201d said Simon Camerer, Cell C\u2019s Executive Head of Marketing.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cThe launch of Woza Weekend comes at a time when subscribers are already starting to ease into the year-end holiday mode. Also, calls increase dramatically around this time of the year,\u201d said Camerer. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cWe are therefore especially pleased to be able to offer our loyal subscribers some slight reprieve from their long list of heavy bills at the end of the month,\u201d he concluded.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Cell C\u2019s Woza Weekend offering also pre-empts the introduction of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) on 10 November, trying to convince customers that CellC may an attractive alternative to current Vodacom and MTN subscibers.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=56371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discuss this article<\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CellC announced today that it will reduce its weekend call rates by over 50% for CellC to CellC calls.<\/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-550591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550591"}],"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=550591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}