Vodacom LTE hits Cape Town
Vodacom says it has grown the number of LTE-enabled base stations from 70 to more than 500, while its rollout has now reached Cape Town.
Vodacom CTO Andries Delport said: “On average we’ve lit up another seven LTE sites every single day for the past two months and hit our target of 500 LTE base stations a month early.”
The operator says it now has LTE up and running in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Durban, and Cape Town with sites in the CBD, Stellenbosch, Atlantic Seaboard (including Camps Bay), the Waterfront and Century City. The group says that more sites are planned for early next year.
“In the six months to September we invested R3.2 billion in our network in South Africa. One of the big focus areas has been providing high speed links to our base stations, which we’ve now completed at more than 5,000 sites to support both LTE and faster 3G connections,” Delport said.
The LTE service is currently available to Vodacom contract customers and will be available to top-up and prepaid clients in 2013. It also requires customers to use a 64K or 128K SIM card.
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