iPhone 5 LTE support for Vodacom subscribers

[GreyBush]

What so good about that. I get that with my normal hsdpa cellc connection

I'm assuming it's better than he was getting.

 

[Roman4604]

Varies from tower to tower, gone past 3 LTE ones driving to work, speeds dl/ul were 6/4, 21/9 & 26/10.

 

[adsl3g]

Activated via website on iPhone 5 - worked for a while now back to 3G - Pretoria CBD.

Still running Beta 5 of iOS6.1 - will upgrade to 6.1 release version tonight.

 

[mediviant]

Busy downloading and installing 6.1.... can't wait!

 

[Nickste]

Quick feedback:

My "Enable LTE" button wasn't showing up in settings under settings > general >cellular after 6.1 update.

I had to go into settings > about first. Then a carrier upgrade alert popped up. I hit update and now "Enable LTE" is there.

 

[RustyPrincess]

Quick feedback:

My "Enable LTE" button wasn't showing up in settings under settings > general >cellular after 6.1 update.

I had to go into settings > about first. Then a carrier upgrade alert popped up. I hit update and now "Enable LTE" is there.

Ah - thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!! Was trying to find out where this magical LTE button was.

 

[cozinsky]

What so good about that. I get that with my normal hsdpa cellc connection

Maybe it is a good speed for Vodacom. I also get these speeds on Cell C's HSPA +

 

[cozinsky]

I am just curious when Cell C and MTN will get LTE rollouts for iPhone as they already have the networks. Not fair Apple!

 

[frailwings]

No coverage, weeps-

 

[Jola]

I am just curious when Cell C and MTN will get LTE rollouts for iPhone as they already have the networks. Not fair Apple!

I do get the Enable LTE button with my Cell C sim on the iPad4, but no Cell C LTE at my house.

 

[zamicro]

This is one of the reasons why I will not buy an Apple product again. They decide if you are allowed to use some features or not. I can understand from their perspective why they are doing it, but from the customer perspective, it is bad.

 

[BloemGuy]

Even though we don't have LTE in Bloemfontein, now that I can use the LTE APN my download speeds have upped from 3-4 Mbps to over 14Mbps on the phone, but uploads around 2Mbps.

 

[JStrike]

This is one of the reasons why I will not buy an Apple product again. They decide if you are allowed to use some features or not. I can understand from their perspective why they are doing it, but from the customer perspective, it is bad.

You can also look at it from a different customers position. I know my battery life is going to be good

 

[rennay]

LTE speeds in Midrand are insane!

 

[Dames]

Please note you must have a contract SIM. If you have a prepaid or topup SIM and you do the upgrade your phone won't work on LTE. You MUST switch off LTE on the iPhone 5 in this case, at least until LTE is available on prepaid and topup. As soon as it's available we'll send a communication out.

Jannie, I don't suppose you have any idea when LTE is going to available for topup and prepaid? Not even a rough idea? Also, when will the Cape Town LTE coverage be extended?

 

[Smiley_lauf]

Was disappointed when I found out that they can't enable LTE on my TopUp 350 package - only for post pay contract customers, no topup and no prepaid users can use Vodacom LTE :-(

Eish! this sux! I am on topup as well, grrrr!

 

[MonTage]

I am in Midrand I got LTE showing on my iPhone, i'm on contract, and i can get max 6.36Mbps.
Thats shocking!! Tried at multiple locations, and still not getting anything close to 20Mbps.

 

[MonTage]

LTE speeds in Midrand are insane!

Where where you in Midrand? cause i cannot even come close.

 

[da_iP_Guy]

LTE: 8.63 Download and 2.61 Upload.

Thank you Apple and Vodacom!

MTN HSPa: 8.25d 2.19u. Dont need LTE ... (yet)

 

[jmak]

Jannie, I don't suppose you have any idea when LTE is going to available for topup and prepaid? Not even a rough idea? Also, when will the Cape Town LTE coverage be extended?

Every operator, especially Vodacom, are extending its LTE coverage continually with multiple sites coming live weekly. So LTE coverage in Cape Town will probably be extended this week, and again next week etc...

And based on what has been seen so far I expect that there will be about as many LTE towers in 36 months as there are 3G towers now. It really will come down to the population density and population data requirements in your area that will determine if you have LTE coverage now, in a month, 6 months or 12 months down the line. The only thing that is for certain is that LTE will expand extremely fast, and with the 1800 band that is utilised you will probably find that it will eventually provide better coverage than 3G.