Free Cell C calls on the weekend (Kinda)

Seems like telecoms in South Africa is becoming an increasingly competitive sector. Finally, perhaps, the consumer is starting benefit.

Starting from midnight this Friday Cell C are offering a service Woza Weekend. They say it's free calls over the weekend. But before you start chatting here are the catches you need to be aware of.

• It's Cell C to Cell C calls only.
  
• It's 120 minutes free, not 48 hours talk time.
  
• Prepaid customers must recharge at least once a week.
• Contract customers, you need to use up all your free minutes first. Check @ Cell C's website for those contract excluded from this requirement)
• There is no carry over (pretty obvious that one)

Still, as long as don't get caught with point number 4, it's something for nothing.

Add this to Adsl & Dstv being offered by Vodacom, Neotel about to start rolling out services, the imminent introduction of Wimax Telkom dropping ADSL prices in August and Moneyweb reporting that SA's bandwidth is "cheap" then we appear to be moving in the right direction.

Now all we need to do is find the steering wheel and the accelerator!!