{"id":88593,"date":"2013-10-09T11:56:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T09:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=88593"},"modified":"2013-10-09T11:58:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T09:58:23","slug":"cell-c-network-details-targets-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/88593-cell-c-network-details-targets-update.html","title":{"rendered":"Cell C network details, targets update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cell C plans to have 4,210 sites in South Africa by the end of November 2013, with 1,260 sites serving Gauteng alone, CEO Alan Knott-Craig told attendees of the 2013 MyBroadband conference on Wednesday, 9 October.<\/p>\n<p>Knott-Craig said that they are busy rolling out 134 additional sites, with 48 completed already.<\/p>\n<p>He said that they have seen a 30% capacity increase on 3G, have improved their call setup rates significantly, and aim to increase capacity by 47% during 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Cell C also aims to complete antenna optimisations on 80 sites by November, Knott-Craig said.<\/p>\n<p>Knott-Craig said that Cell C has grown its base by 33% to date, or 1.3 million customers, in 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>He finished off his presentation by saying Cell C plans to grow its market share to 25% and achieve sustainability, by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Using competitive pricing;<\/li>\n<li>building quality into a network which is growing; and<\/li>\n<li>ensuring a level playing field for competition.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><a title=\"MyBroadband Conference 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mybb2013.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Watch the MyBroadband Conference \u2013 2013 live<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 id=\"related\">More cellular news<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/88583-we-will-crack-vodacom-mtn-knott-craig.html\"><strong>We will crack Vodacom, MTN: Knott-Craig<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/88577-cell-c-competition-complaint-against-vodacom-mtn.html\"><strong>Cell C competition complaint against Vodacom, MTN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/88571-sa-mobile-prices-not-as-high-as-you-think-vodacom.html\"><strong>SA mobile prices not as high as you think: Vodacom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/88421-vodacom-mtn-shares-down-on-call-rate-cut-news.html\"><strong>Vodacom, MTN shares down on call rate cut news<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/88069-telkom-mobile-completely-unlimited-officially-unveiled.html\"><strong>Telkom Mobile \u201cCompletely Unlimited\u201d officially unveiled<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Knott-Craig has provided an update on the status of their network, and targets for the next few months<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[681,355,35],"class_list":["post-88593","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\/88593"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88597,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88593\/revisions\/88597"}],"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=88593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}