{"id":822,"date":"2007-07-31T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T11:08:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-31T13:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-31T11:08:00","slug":"cell-c-happy-with-competition-commission-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/822-cell-c-happy-with-competition-commission-decision.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell C happy with Competition Commission decision"},"content":{"rendered":"

The decision came at the back of a complaint lodged by Cell C to the Commission on price discrimination back in April 2005. Cell C<\/a> said that its submission was that MTN<\/a> is abusing its dominant position in the market, and it is utilizing its muscle to harm Cell C’s bottom-line by challenging its Community Service Telephones (CST) roll-out. <\/p>\n

“This is being done by withholding both commercial and CST interconnection fees due to Cell C – while at the same time not taking similar action against Vodacom’s CST rollout which mirrors Cell C’s own CST roll-out. Notwithstanding that, MTN continued to pay Vodacom interconnection fees due it,” Cell C said.<\/p>\n

“As part of Cell C’s license obligations, amongst other things, we were required to install 52, 000 Community Service Telephony (CST) lines in under-serviced areas. These areas were defined broadly as those having less than 10% fixed line penetration as approved for in our license.”<\/p>\n

“We then took this definition to the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) which mapped these areas. The resultant maps are endorsed by ICASA<\/a> and we roll-out our CST network in these regions in accordance with this mapped information.” said Zeona Motshabi<\/a>, Chief Corporate Officer at Cell C.<\/p>\n

Added Motshabi: “We believe that we performed everything in our power to ensure that our roll-out is in line with our license obligation”<\/p>\n

“We have always been confident that the Competition Commission would rule in the interest of fair competition.” she concluded<\/p>\n

Cell C has to-date rolled out over 100,000 CSTs in under-serviced areas. More than 8 000 entrepreneurs have been created who bill monthly earnings of more than R32 million.<\/p>\n

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Cell C said that it is pleased with the Competition Commission\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s decision to submit its findings of price discrimination against MTN to the Competition Tribunal for adjudication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822"}],"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=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}