MTN South Africa has announced that it will offer uncapped 5G access at R999 p/m, upgrading its current LTE plans.
There has been a lot of talk around 5G in Africa and despite some providers actively offering it, the overall rollout has been slow.
For most individuals in the know, access to public and free Wi-Fi is not recommended with it being best to avoid altogether.
Vodacom South Africa reported in its interim results that it has seen a 64 percent year-on-year growth in data consumed by “smart devices.”
South Africa will be the first market where the MTN 5G network is launched, during a live event hosted on YouTube on June 30th.
Due to ongoing financial troubles, Cell C will retrench almost 40 percent of its employees – or 960 of the total 2,500 workforce.
To drive future value Rain wants to invest heavily in 5G, and are planning to install 1,500 5G towers in the large metropolitan areas in South Africa.
According to Reuters the French telecommunications giant Orange wants to enter large, lucrative markets on our continent, including South Africa.
MTN have announced new daily bundles that cost from R29 for 1GB of data. These new bundles have been dubbed EverydayGigs.
The UK is reportedly planning to phase out Huawei 5G infrastructure by the year 2023, amid Chinese surveillance concerns spurred on by the pandemic.
2Africa, an upcoming project, has today been confirmed and is set to be spearheaded by big name entities that include Facebook and Vodacom.
Vodacom is already seeing dividends of price drops, as it reports 66% growth in data usage in the year ending 31 March 2020.
