South Africa`s third cellular network operator, Cell C, is confident it will meet its licence obligation to roll-out 52 000 community service telephones (CST) to underserviced areas nation-wide by 2008.
To date, Cell C has rolled out over 20 000 lines, which are owned by more than 4 000 entrepreneurs and recording 45 million calls a month. This is ahead of initial targets, considering that Cell C`s CSTs were only launched in mid-2003, the company said in a statement.
"Even though the demand for CST is three times higher than the supply, we are confident we will continue to catch up and provide good service to prospective operators," says Talaat Laham, chairman and CEO of Cell C.
He adds that the company is focusing on deploying CSTs to underserviced areas in the Eastern Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces, and added that the business has, so far, created more than 8 300 direct and indirect jobs.
Cell C recently appointed NET1 to serve an as alternative airtime recharge provider. CST owners have so far only used Teba Bank for airtime recharge.
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