Acting CEO at Cell C, Jose Dos Santos, says that the operator has hit 13 million subscribers for the first time.<\/p>\n
In a briefing in Sandton, the company lead, in the absence of Alan Knott-Craig, said that Cell C had achieved more than 1.2 million gross connections in October, with 400,000 net additions.<\/p>\n
Last month, Cell C said it had signed up one million gross customers in September, having achieved that milestone for the first time in July.<\/p>\n
Speaking at the MyBroadband 2013 conference in Midrand, Cell C CEO, Alan Knott-Craig said that South Africa\u2019s third operator had again signed up in excess of one million customers in September, for the second time ever.<\/p>\n
The company told BusinessTech that it fell marginally short of reaching that target in August, meaning that its gross sign-ups is close to three million over the past three months.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have grown our base by 33% to 12.3 million customers in just 18 months,\u201d Knott-Craig told delegates at the conference.<\/p>\n
In July 2013, Cell C revealed that it had 11.7 million subscribers on its network \u2013 a steady climb from 8.2 million users in 2011 and 9.4 million in 2012 \u2013 boosting its relative market share to over 17%.<\/p>\n
Knott-Craig has said that the company is targeting 25% market share in order to be profitable.<\/p>\n
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