Massive Cell C sign up numbers in July 2013

....all of this while their network is still struggling with serious congestion issues. What I'd like to know is how many subscribers have ported back to Vodacom/MTN.
 
At the prices that cellc offer their products on it wasn't that big a surprise. I know 5 people that swapped from vodacom to cellc this month because cellc has better pricing.
 
HiToKiRi said:
....all of this while their network is still struggling with serious congestion issues. What I'd like to know is how many subscribers have ported back to Vodacom/MTN.
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I haven't and if you read the article you would see that a net effect 338000 haven't this month.

Well done Cell C keep on growing and stick it to those other two especially the rip-off MTN network.
 
Those figures CANNOT be correct ; how can Vodascrom, eMpTN, Cell C and Telskum POSSIBLY have a combined SA total of 67.2 million subscribers?
There aren't that many people living in the country.
UNLESS they are counting "people not of SA origin" and company "subscribers" ??
 
HiToKiRi said:
....all of this while their network is still struggling with serious congestion issues. What I'd like to know is how many subscribers have ported back to Vodacom/MTN.
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Just piggyback off vodskaskom if your Cel C signal is not great...
 
DailyTech said:
Those figures CANNOT be correct ; how can Vodascrom, eMpTN, Cell C and Telskum POSSIBLY have a combined SA total of 67.2 million subscribers?
There aren't that many people living in the country.
UNLESS they are counting "people not of SA origin" and company "subscribers" ??
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Depends how you count. U find many prepaid activations that havent been used for months but are technically still active on the system. People just buy new prepaids for reasons of discounts/promotions over simply recharging. The number can be "correct" in this way
 
DailyTech said:
Those figures CANNOT be correct ; how can Vodascrom, eMpTN, Cell C and Telskum POSSIBLY have a combined SA total of 67.2 million subscribers?
There aren't that many people living in the country.
UNLESS they are counting "people not of SA origin" and company "subscribers" ??
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More than 1 sim card per person.
 
rakabos3 said:
Depends how you count. U find many prepaid activations that havent been used for months but are technically still active on the system. People just buy new prepaids for reasons of discounts/promotions over simply recharging. The number can be "correct" in this way
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some people have more than one contract as well
 
Well done Cell C.... your 99c per minute is paying off.
 
Now if they would just let me use the data I pay for, the quality of their network is pathetic. I current get more missed calls than ones that connect too. VERY unhappy
 
Great -Hopefully it will put pressure on the two arrogant ones and they will drop their prices, and it should be for current users to stop the fallout.

But knowing them they will just do another special deal or so for new contracts which won't help much except make current high payers even more pee'd off.

I am still ticked about my 350 top-up @ mtn with WTF 10mb data?!?!?


Love it when the "underdog" makes impact.
 
Cell C announced today (30 July 2013) that it signed up over one million customers in July 2013 – the first time the operator achieved such strong growth.

“I am exceptionally proud and excited to announce that for the first time in the history of Cell C we have connected more than one million customers in one month,” said Alan Knott-Craig, Cell C CEO.

“Last night we broke through the million gross connection barrier bringing our total customer base to over 11.7 million.”

Knott-Craig said that while churn is still high, he is encouraged by the steady growth in net additions for the month of July, which as of last night (29 July 2013) totalled over 338,000 connections.

Cell C is currently the third largest mobile operator behind Vodacom with 29.3 million SA subscribers and MTN with 25 million. Telkom Mobile had 1.5 million subscribers in March 2013.
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