{"id":61356,"date":"2012-10-05T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T09:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=61356"},"modified":"2012-10-05T16:04:22","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T14:04:22","slug":"cell-cs-lte-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/61356-cell-cs-lte-plans.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell C\u2019s LTE plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cell C<\/a> will launch a commercial LTE<\/a> offering before the end of 2012, given that nothing goes wrong. This is according to Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Knott-Craig explained that Cell C will use their existing 2,100MHz spectrum, which is currently used for HSPA+ services, for their LTE network.<\/p>\n

However, Cell C will only use the spectrum in areas where it will not influence the company\u2019s existing mobile data network.<\/p>\n

Cell C\u2019s 3G network, which currently exceeds 3,000 sites across the country, is already LTE ready. However, the radio access network is only one part of delivering a great LTE experiencing.<\/p>\n

Knott-Craig pointed out that any LTE site without fibre backhaul is useless, and it is a challenge to get fibre to all their base stations.<\/p>\n

Despite these challenges Knott-Craig promised consumers that they can expect a great experience when Cell C launches commercial LTE products.<\/p>\n

Consumers can further expect to pay the same for LTE as for Cell C\u2019s other data products. Knott-Craig said that he considers a megabyte of data to be the same across a 2G, 3G or LTE network, and that there will be no differentiated pricing on data products according to speed.<\/p>\n

\"Alan<\/a>

Alan Knott-Craig<\/p><\/div>\n

Related links<\/strong><\/p>\n

Internet Solutions\u2019 LTE plans<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

MTN LTE network plans revealed<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

LTE spectrum policy drafted<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

LTE spectrum for SA: SNAFU<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

South Africa\u2019s LTE kingmakers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cell C will launch an LTE service before the end of the year, rivaling Vodacom and MTN with similar plans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[681,355,35,2490],"class_list":["post-61356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-alan-knott-craig","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-lte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61356"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61428,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61356\/revisions\/61428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}