{"id":551798,"date":"2007-03-18T20:01:42","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T20:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/551798-cell-c-shows-impressive-data-growth.html"},"modified":"2007-03-18T20:01:42","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T20:01:42","slug":"cell-c-shows-impressive-data-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/551798-cell-c-shows-impressive-data-growth.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell C shows impressive data growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since November 2005 until December 2006 they have reported a 367% increase in active subscribers, their data usage on their network has increased by 949% and there has been a staggering 14 000% increase in Internet bandwidth utilization. <\/font><\/p>\n

Cell C are open about the fact that they do not have the fastest service and have added that they do not intend to play in the 3G\/HSDPA market yet. According to Gareth Fry, product specialist at Cell C, it is simply too expensive for them to roll out a 3G network at this stage and that the company has decided to focus on providing a good EDGE service.<\/font><\/p>\n

\u201cCell C is not going to invest in a 3rd generation network without a valid business case. There are better ways to add value to most consumers,\u201d said Cell C.<\/font><\/p>\n

Cell C noted that whilst their service is not truly \u201cbroadband\u201d, it is an always-on, reliable Internet connection that is three times the speed of fixed line dial-up connections.<\/font><\/p>\n

Furthermore, Cell C said that their EDGE service covers 90% of the metropolitan areas which makes it a suitable dial-up replacement for many of their customers.<\/font><\/p>\n

An interesting bit of information is that the average Cell C data user consumes on average only 5MB per month. With 44% of their subscribers accessing Cell C network from prepaid accounts it looks like the smaller cellular provider is carving a niche for themselves with low end users. <\/font><\/p>\n

They added that their strategy is to focus on the average SA telecoms users which will take the form of a three pronged approach to provide a better user experience, give value for money and focus on voice and simple data services.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Cell C have reported impressive growth in their data services and expect the upward trend to continue.<\/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-551798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551798"}],"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=551798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}