Cell C has revealed that it has made significant progress in migrating its customers from its own RAN to the network of roaming partner MTN. As part of the project, Cell C will decommission its physical RAN, including towers, antennae, radio and transmission equipment, while MTN will provide a virtual RAN for Cell C’s clients. The cellco has switched off all network sites...
Cell C is in advanced talks with Rand Merchant Bank and Investec to provide it with about R4-billion rand in fresh capital, according to people familiar with the matter. South Africa’s fourth largest mobile phone provider, partly owned by Johannesburg-listed Blue Label Telecoms, is nearing the end of a recapitalisation plan to pay down debt, said...
Mobile operator Cell C says it has successfully decommissioned 34% of its physical radio access network (RAN). According to Cell C, it has “seamlessly” migrated its prepaid and mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) customers to roam solely on its partner network, MTN, via a virtual RAN. In this first phase, Cell C says the focus...
Cell C is transitioning into a digital lifestyle company, as it tries to fend off competition and remain competitive. The mobile operator says the evolution will make it more agile and able to hold off competition by taking a different approach, as its larger rivals are all heavily invested in infrastructure. Cell C today announced...
Cell C says it is ramping up its platform-based strategy as part of a new vision to transition into a digital solutions provider – as it moves away from being a traditional mobile network operator (MNO). The operator says as part of its turnaround strategy to create the “Cell C of the future”, it is...
Blue Label Telecoms, Cell C’s largest shareholder, remains confident the mobile operator will be saved and get fresh funding, but will not commit to timelines as to when this will happen. Cell C, which has been facing liquidity challenges, has been waiting for recapitalisation from shareholders for some time. Blue Label previously promised new money...
Numerous Cell C users have in recent weeks complained of network connectivity issues amid the operator’s migration of its contract and broadband customer base to Vodacom’s network. The Cell C Downdetector page has reflected “Possible problems at Cell C” intermittently over the last few days, with a myriad of reports claiming bad or no connectivity for data,...
The Hawks have made a second arrest related to a fraud and corruption investigation at Cell C, the elite police crime-fighting unit said on Wednesday. A police team in Germiston arrested Adriraan Pillay, 39, for alleged fraud and corruption involving a tender scam amounting to R130-million, the Hawks said. That is double the R64-million figure previously...
South African operator, Cell C has withdrawn its legal challenge to new number portability regulations published by the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), MyBroadband reported. There had been industry speculation that the parties had settled the litigation, the portal said, but added that the operator and regulator have declared that there was no...
Vodacom and Cell C have reached a secret agreement which is behind the recent migration of Cell C’s contract and broadband user base to Vodacom’s network. On 13 January 2021, Cell C sent out a statement which announced: “the migration process has started with contract and broadband customers”. This was a month after the migration actually started....
