MTN to give Broadband to rural areas

MTN SA's Chief Technology Officer Kanagaratnam Lambotharan (image source: file photo)

South Africa’s second largest mobile operator, MTN plans to roll out over 1 000 Universal Mobile Telecommunications Systems (UMTS) base stations in rural areas for the next two years.

MTN plans to bring the much-needed broadband capacity to millions of its subscribers in the country and its operations across the continent and the Middle East. The company has made significant broadband investments in the West Africa Cable System (WACS), and in the East Africa Cable System (EASSy) undersea cables.

“The key limitations to rolling out infrastructure however remain the availability of high capacity transmission and in some cases grid power, which requires additional investment from telecoms players such as MTN.”
“As a company with operations in emerging markets, the availability of reliable energy sources in rolling and maintaining a reliable network is crucial.

“The unavailability of reliable energy supplies makes network rollout very expensive, thus dissuading potential investors from investing,” says Lambotharan.

Cell C vs Vodacom vs MTN

Cell C vs Vodacom vs MTN
Costumer support, Applications support, The Price rip-off's and the Connection! We go out and test it all... 

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From what many people remember, Cell C's logo look like this
But they have been upgraded, and improving quality content and service more and more ...
Their prices is as low as it could get, beating both Vodacom and MTN


A lot of comments on there Facebook page, as people wonder and complain

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As low as their rates might be, this cellular provider is much younger than Vodacom or MTN and don't have the "experience". I rather pay a more money, if I know I am getting top notch service!
If you want to risk it, by all means go try them, you never know what happens... (I use them, and they are alright!) Otherwise go for the dogs that have been much longer in the game.


MTN, doesn't need some kind of introduction when it comes to cellular fights...
They have been in this game for years, and probably will be another couple, but as far as competition goes, they are kind of dead. They don't advertise, they don't give promotions, they also don't have any special "packages". The question remains, are they reliable? short answer: Yes!
I hate to break this to you, so I will just show you the Facebook Page Picture. (look at the complains)
















Vodacom has been with us and our families for years providing quality cellular service, it's also know for vast enterprise, but is it starting to fade away?
 We putted our team to work, checking their web-sites, social skills, phone support, and friendly service are still as good.

Lets start with their Web-site:
It looks fresh and up to date, as you would expect from Vodacom...
E-mailing them straight from their web-site is very easy and they reply quite fast with many options and support (help)

Phone support is out-dated, telling you to still Rica...
We have to say, despite this small things we listed, we couldn't find any other hiccups with Vodacom. They are still the best in our opinion...

Even their social-media, Facebook looks good. The comments is a mixture of positive- and negative comments, which is perfectly fine since no company is perfect.

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