{"id":74533,"date":"2013-04-15T11:57:56","date_gmt":"2013-04-15T09:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=74533"},"modified":"2013-04-15T12:02:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-15T10:02:00","slug":"cell-c-network-problems-and-growth-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/74533-cell-c-network-problems-and-growth-update.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell C network problems and growth update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cell C<\/a> has grown its network coverage to 97% of the South African population, with over 4,000 base stations around the country. This is according to Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Knott-Craig told MyBroadband that Cell C currently has around 4,000 cellular sites nationally, of which 3,500 are 42Mbps HSPA enabled (providing a 79% 3G\/HSPA population coverage).<\/p>\n

\u201cCell C has made a substantial investment in the growth of its network over the last year. For the 2012 financial year, the company significantly increased its coverage, erecting 1,223 new 3G base stations,\u201d Cell C said.<\/p>\n

Cell C also has 100 active LTE<\/a> sites, with a target to increase this number to 1,000 by the end of the year.<\/p>\n

Cell C network problems addressed<\/h3>\n

Knott-Craig said that Cell C was experiencing network problems in March 2013, especially during peak hours when traffic levels spiked.<\/p>\n

He said that they addressed these problems by increasing the capacity of the affected sites, and that service levels should be back to normal again.<\/p>\n

The Cell C CEO added that they continue to roll out more sites and boost capacity on existing sites to improve their network performance.<\/p>\n

However, some challenges remain. Limited spectrum and a lack of transmission at some sites make it difficult for Cell C to meet its objectives.<\/p>\n

More Cell C articles<\/h3>\n

Cell C data uppercut incoming<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Cell C network problems backlash<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Cell C has better quality network than Vodacom, MTN: Knott-Craig<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Cell C network problems feedback<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cell C is continuing to aggressively growth its network and address data bottlenecks where they occur<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":74539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[681,355,35],"class_list":["post-74533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-alan-knott-craig","tag-cell-c","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74533"}],"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=74533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75607,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74533\/revisions\/75607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}