{"id":84275,"date":"2013-08-24T12:57:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T10:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=84275"},"modified":"2013-08-24T12:58:47","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T10:58:47","slug":"cell-cs-vodacom-handover-request-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/84275-cell-cs-vodacom-handover-request-details.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell C&#8217;s Vodacom handover request details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Cell C\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/213919-Cell-C\">Cell C<\/a> CEO <a title=\"Alan Knott-Craig\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/224891-Alan-Knott-Craig-(Senior)\">Alan Knott-Craig<\/a> recently said that their network woes are mainly due to a lack of seamless handover to the <a title=\"Vodacom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227063-Vodacom\">Vodacom<\/a> network when a subscriber falls outside Cell C coverage.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C has a national roaming agreement with Vodacom, which means that Cell C subscribers are able to connect to Vodacom\u2019s network when they fall outside Cell C coverage.<\/p>\n<p>However, the hand-over from Cell C to Vodacom is not as seamless as it should be, Knott-Craig said.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that as more users enter a 3G cell, the coverage provided by its tower effectively decreases. Subscribers at the edge of the cell might suddenly find themselves unable to connect.<\/p>\n<p>This is where the hand-over between Cell C and Vodacom needs to be seamless, Knott-Craig said, otherwise customers will have a poor experience.<\/p>\n<p>Questions have been raised on whether Cell C will support seamless handover in both directions, and Knott-Craig has now confirmed that seamless handover implies handovers in both directions \u2013 from Vodacom to Cell C and vice versa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTechnically both parties will need to collaborate to implement this for both cases. Neighbour cell relationships need to be created on both networks,\u201d said Knott-Craig.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCell C is ready and able to do so but Vodacom has not delivered,\u201d Knott-Craig said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Cell C and Vodacom handover<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Cell C deal with Vodacom confidential: spokesperson\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/82613-cell-c-deal-with-vodacom-confidential-spokesperson.html\"><strong>Cell C deal with Vodacom confidential: spokesperson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/82415-cell-c-out-of-patience-with-vodacom-knott-craig.html\"><strong>Cell C out of patience with Vodacom: CEO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/82383-it-wasnt-me-vodacom-on-cell-c-network-problems.html\"><strong>It wasn\u2019t me: Vodacom on Cell C network problems<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/81855-cell-c-network-quality-complaints.html\"><strong>Cell C network quality complaints<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig explains what is necessary to make seamless handover work between them and Vodacom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":74325,"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":[681,355,35,41],"class_list":["post-84275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-alan-knott-craig","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84275"}],"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=84275"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84339,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84275\/revisions\/84339"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}