Vodacom was the first mobile operator to launch 3G mobile broadband in South Africa.
Vodacom was the first mobile operator to launch 3G mobile broadband services in South Africa, introducing the technology in December 2004.
To understand why Vodacom launched 3G, one must go back to 1994, when the company launched its first cellular telephone services in South Africa. “Within five months, Vodacom had increased its customer database by 540% and signed on 100,000 customers,” said Knott-Craig. “The technology was available to everyone at the time, so it had nothing to do with technical reasons,” Van Zyl said.
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