Wednesday, April 22, 2015

NEWS: Mobile data boom in SA townships

Mobile data usage and traffic volume growth in South Africa’s townships is running well ahead of the average growth rate countrywide, says Vodacom.

One of Vodacom's new container shop base stations

Mobile data usage and traffic volume growth in South Africa’s townships is running well ahead of the average growth rate countrywide, Vodacom said on Wednesday. It’s a trend that’s been noted by other operators in recent months, too, with Cell C also reporting recently that it’s seeing huge demand for Internet access from these areas.

Now Vodacom says it has begun testing shipping container base stations designed specifically for township markets. The solution allows base stations to be retrofitted to shipping container shops, facilitating much faster roll-out of network coverage.

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