5G on the iPhone 12 will only work on MTN, for now

[Jamie McKane]

5G on the iPhone 12 will only work on MTN, for now

MTN has announced that it will launch the Apple iPhone 12 this month and is the only network authorised to enable 5G on these devices this year.

Both Vodacom and MTN will offer the 5G-enabled version of the Apple iPhone 12 in South Africa from 18 December, but only MTN subscribers will enjoy 5G connectivity.

 

[Willie Trombone]

Very few of us care about 5G on a phone I'm guessing. Our bug-bears are the service departments at the operators.

 

[Unreal]

I’m in no rush for 5G on the phone.
I just came here to say that

 

[ThinkCentre]

Empty N has hardly a 4G network! Let alone 5G!

 

[j4ck455]

“5G connectivity will be enabled through a simple software update in due course,” he said.

Didn't Vodacom's network suffer two inexplicable 'vacuum cleaner plugged into UPS' outages recently?

By now Vodacom should know that nothing is simple lately at Vodacom.

 

[AfricanTech]

5G for now is a marketing con

 

[RudderVator]

Empty N has hardly a 4G network! Let alone 5G!

Eish you think Empty N is bad should see Vodagone...
When you one day have an LTE signal it is still unusable. 6 dropped calls a week is feature.