{"id":74591,"date":"2013-04-03T10:05:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T08:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=74591"},"modified":"2013-04-03T10:13:45","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T08:13:45","slug":"cell-c-waspa-sms-complaint-stopped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/74591-cell-c-waspa-sms-complaint-stopped.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell C WASPA SMS complaint stopped"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Wireless Application Service Providers\u2019 Association (WASPA<\/a>) has decided against lodging a complaint with the Competition Commission<\/a> against Cell C<\/a> in relation to bulk SMS provisioning.<\/p>\n

At the recent WASPA AGM the majority of the body\u2019s members voted in favour of lodging a complaint against Cell C for giving preferential treatment to Blue Label Telecoms<\/a> owned Cellfind<\/a> on bulk SMS pricing and a cross-network A2P reply path.<\/p>\n

However, WASPA said in a letter to its members this morning (3 April 2013) that it has been \u201cengaging Cell C on this matter and is pleased to report that Cell C has now committed to providing a level playing field to all its WASPs in regard to pricing and facilities\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a result of this development, the WASPA Mancom believes that there is now no need to pursue lodging a Competition Commission complaint against Cell C in relation to bulk SMS provisioning,\u201d WASPA said in the letter.<\/p>\n

Some WASPA members feel that a Competition Commission complaint was necessary to send a message to all mobile operators that they should not play favourites when it comes to WASP rates and treatment.<\/p>\n

MyBroadband previously contacted WASPA chairperson Leon Perlman<\/a> to gain clarity on the issue, but he did not respond to questions.<\/p>\n

Cell C also did not provide feedback on whether it will continue to provide Blue Label Telecoms owned Cellfind with preferential rates or services.<\/p>\n

More WASPA and Cell C articles<\/h3>\n

WASPA Cell C SMS complaint uncertainty<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Cell C WASPA SMS battle looming<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Cell C SMS change opens can of worms<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

SMS pricing change for SA looming?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cell C bullied on SMS plans: Knott-Craig<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Wireless Application Service Providers\u2019 Association has backtracked on its plans to file a complaint against Cell C with the Competition Commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":74539,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[355,35,2030,1285],"class_list":["post-74591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-leon-perlman","tag-waspa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74591"}],"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=74591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74593,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74591\/revisions\/74593"}],"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=74591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}