{"id":550756,"date":"2006-11-07T10:31:01","date_gmt":"2006-11-07T10:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/550756-cell-c-says-won-t-charge-porting-fee.html"},"modified":"2006-11-07T10:31:01","modified_gmt":"2006-11-07T10:31:01","slug":"cell-c-says-won-t-charge-porting-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/550756-cell-c-says-won-t-charge-porting-fee.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell C says won&#8217;t charge porting fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">As part of MNP all network operators will be required to pay an administration fee to the Number Portability Company, which acts as the porting hub and will facilitate the porting process.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cellc.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cell C<\/a> CEO Jeffery Hedberg said in a statement on Tuesday that Cell C has decided to bear this charge on behalf of people wishing to move to the Cell C network.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;By foregoing this charge, which could be unaffordable for many cell phone users, Cell C is solidifying its position on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mobile_number_portability\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MNP<\/a> and making it affordable for all.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&quot;As part of its commitment to providing South Africans with an opportunity to move networks Cell C have decided to drop this charge if they move to Cell C,&quot; he said.<\/font> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=57863\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Discuss this article<\/a> <\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cellular operator Cell C says it will not be charging customers who wish to move to the Cell C network a porting fee when Mobile Number Portability (MNP) is implemented on Friday November 10.<\/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-550756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550756"}],"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=550756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}