{"id":85157,"date":"2013-08-25T12:02:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T10:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=85157"},"modified":"2013-08-26T08:42:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T06:42:40","slug":"cell-c-eating-mtns-cake-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/85157-cell-c-eating-mtns-cake-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell C eating MTN&#8217;s cake: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Blue Label Telecoms\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/233831-Blue-Label-Telecoms\">Blue Label Telecoms<\/a> reported its financial results for the year ended on 31 May 2013 recently, which revealed that <a title=\"Cell C\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/213919-Cell-C\">Cell C<\/a> has gained 2% market share in the mobile prepaid market, while <a title=\"MTN\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/226943-MTN\">MTN<\/a> lost 2%.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday Times reported that Cell C grew its prepaid market share to 12%, up from 10% a year ago. MTN\u2019s market share over the same period declined from 38% to 36%.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vodacom\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/227063-Vodacom\">Vodacom<\/a> remained the dominant player with 51% market share, while <a title=\"Telkom Mobile\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/515780-Telkom-Mobile\">Telkom Mobile<\/a> is struggling with only 1% share of the prepaid market.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper quoted Blue Label Telecoms CEO <a title=\"Brett Levy\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/233833-Brett-Levy\">Brett Levy<\/a> as saying that he expects Cell C to gain further market share in future.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Mote on Cell C and MTN<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"MTN vs Cell C\u2019s free battle\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/69750-mtn-vs-cell-cs-free-battle.html\"><strong>MTN vs Cell C\u2019s free battle<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Cell C ads \u201cdisparage MTN\u2019s products\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/59559-cell-c-ads-disparage-mtns-products.html\"><strong>Cell C ads \u201cdisparage MTN\u2019s products\u201d<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"MTN vs. Cell C: Papa\u2019s got a brand new hater\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/17542\/mtn-vs-cell-c-papas-got-a-brand-new-hater\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MTN vs. Cell C: Papa\u2019s got a brand new hater<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Label Telecoms figures show that Cell C is taking market share from MTN in the prepaid market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":79089,"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":[1017,4064,355,35,42],"class_list":["post-85157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-blue-label-telecoms","tag-brett-levy","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-mtn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85157"}],"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=85157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85183,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85157\/revisions\/85183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}