
Cell C’s board has already begun the process of looking for a new CEO, its chairman Simon Duffy says. The company surprised the industry on Wednesday when it said Lars Reichelt, its CEO for the past two-and-a-half years, was resigning for personal reasons
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When Dimension Data unveiled its new brand identity and logo last week, it released two separate images of its chairman, Jeremy Ord, one from the 1980s, the other more recent, to illustrate to staff why
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TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod talks to Cell C CEO Lars Reichelt about the company’s challenges at the Advertising Standards Authority, competition with Vodacom, and the launch of its 42Mbit/s mobile broadband network
April 29, 2011 | Posted in
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Cell C will ask the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) to review its decision to find in favour of a complaint lodged by Vodacom against the former’s new advertising campaign. Cell C was last week forced to pull the campaign
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The playground battle between Vodacom and Cell C over the latter’s new advertising campaign is a signal of something altogether more interesting than them throwing marketing dirt at each other: competition in

Vodacom’s advertising agency, Draftfcb, has accused its former executive creative director, Grant Jacobsen, of unethical behaviour over Cell C’s new advertising campaign and has warned it may sue him for damages
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Energy-drinks company Red Bull and mobile operator Cell C have taken the wraps off their telecommunications joint venture, unveiling aggressive tariff plans that should get consumers
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Red Bull Mobile will not be a full-fledged mobile virtual network operator. Rather, Cell C will run the network on behalf of the Austrian energy-drinks company and own the subscribers
January 25, 2011 | Posted in
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Here they are. TechCentral’s top-five newsmakers of 2010. Our “Newsmakers of the Year” award is presented to individuals we believe had the biggest impact on SA’s technology sector in the past 12 months. For the most
December 15, 2010 | Posted in
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Cell C has finally launched its high-speed mobile broadband network in Gauteng after first switching on the service in Port Elizabeth a little over 10 weeks ago. The company is promising average download speeds
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