{"id":551548,"date":"2007-02-14T10:56:28","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T10:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551548-cellc-explains-their-data-card-comments.html"},"modified":"2007-02-14T10:56:28","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T10:56:28","slug":"cellc-explains-their-data-card-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551548-cellc-explains-their-data-card-comments.html","title":{"rendered":"CellC explains their data card comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">In an ITWeb article regarding CellC\u2019s broadband plans, a CellC spokesman was quoted as saying that \u201cWe believe our data cards are competitive in the marketplace.\u201d <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Considering that CellC competes directly with Vodacom and MTN in the mobile data space, it is not clear how CellC can deem their offerings competitive.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Both Vodacom and MTN offer far superior HSDPA data bundles at the same price as CellC\u2019s EDGE bundles. Vodacom\u2019s 3G bundles are priced at R 399-00 per GB, 20% cheaper than CellC\u2019s EDGE bundles which means are also not cutthroat on pricing, casting doubt over their claim to be competitive.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Gareth Fry, Product Specialist, shed some light on these statements.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cIf we compare on price: generally data cards are offered free on either a 500MB or a 1GB contract. Cell C has offered the Cell C mobile data card free on these packages at R350 for the 500MB and at R499 for the 1GB respectfully. Our deals change monthly though and it is suggested that customers check with their closest Cell C outlet for our current deals,\u201d said Fry.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cIf we compare on device: The Cell C mobile Data card is comparable to the card offered by our competitors as it offers the ability to connect to HSDPA, 3G, EDGE and GPRS. Looking at our other device (the Cell C mobile USB modem), Cell C has offered it \u201cfree\u201d on numerous bundle deals including \u201cfree\u201d with a \u201cfree\u201d mobile phone and airtime contract and a data bundle,\u201d Fry concluded.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=66537\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CellC recently indicated that they will not offer broadband services to their subscribers in the near future, but still believe that they are competitive in the data card market.  CellC explains why.<\/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-551548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551548"}],"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=551548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}