{"id":88609,"date":"2013-10-09T17:34:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T15:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=88609"},"modified":"2013-10-10T08:37:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T06:37:58","slug":"dont-make-us-increase-prices-vodacom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/88609-dont-make-us-increase-prices-vodacom.html","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t make us increase prices: Vodacom"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vodacom<\/a> has said that Cell C<\/a>\u2019s complaint with the Competition Commission<\/a> appears to argue that the prices for on-network calls on Vodacom must be increased.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s hard to argue that increasing prices would be a benefit to consumers,\u201d a Vodacom spokesperson told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n

This comes after Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig<\/a> announced at the 2013 MyBroadband conference on Wednesday, 9 October 2013 that they had lodged a complaint with the Competition Commission against dominant mobile operators, Vodacom and MTN.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the 2013 MyBroadband Conference, Cell C CEO Alan Knott-Craig said that Vodacom and MTN<\/a> are abusing their dominant market positions with far lower on-net call rates.<\/p>\n

Knott-Craig vowed to fight against the unfair practices and poor policies in the country\u2019s telecoms space.<\/p>\n

In their statement, Vodacom concurred with MTN SA boss Zunaid Bulbulia<\/a> who told conference attendees that lower on-network prices are a standard industry practice which even Cell C implements on its network.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a standard practice worldwide for companies to offer their customers lower priced calls when those calls are to other people on the same network,\u201d Vodacom said.<\/p>\n

More cellular news<\/h3>\n

MTN dismisses Cell C anti-competitive claims<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

We will crack Vodacom, MTN: Knott-Craig<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Cell C competition complaint against Vodacom, MTN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Vodacom, MTN shares down on call rate cut news<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

20c per minute drop too steep: Vodacom<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vodacom has come out swinging against Cell C\u2019s complaint with the competition commission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":82187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[681,355,35,42,41,503],"class_list":["post-88609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-alan-knott-craig","tag-cell-c","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-vodacom","tag-zunaid-bulbulia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88609"}],"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=88609"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88637,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88609\/revisions\/88637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}