Vodacom over the 17 million customer mark

[rpm]

http://mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=510

"Vodacom’s 3G offering which was opened to the public in December 2004 is doing well with the number of active users on the network up from 10,853 in March this year to 26,341 as of June 30, 2005."

 

[rburley]

arent there only 44 million people in SA?
so that means that vodacom has nearly half of them,scary considering a huge chunk are still living in the stone age

 

[The_Right_Honourable_Brit]

Well not all people have a cellphone in SA remember...

Well I'm on MTN and haven't had a bad experience yet - although why do all the cellphone providers insist on a 2 year contract . In 1st world countries, it's usually 12-months....

 

[Highflyer_GP]

so that means that vodacom has nearly half of them

probably because vodacoms cheesy yebo gogo ad campaigns have brainwashed the joe average on the street into signing with them. sad really

 

[rburley]

maybe so but vodacom is really good, I had endless trouble with cell c and MTN wasnt that much better

 

[VQuest]

Same here rburley. I had problems with MTN from the very day I signed up until the very day I celebrated the end of my 2 year "jail" term with them.

I've been with Vodacom for many years now and have not once had a problem with them. No billing problems, no customer care problems or anything else. I won't be leaving them anytime soon, even if MTN brings out some spectacular packages.

 

[stoke]

Sadlee - me a voda slut 2.

 

[Darth Garth]

The biggest cellphone companies in the world

China Mobile (GSM) - 220.6 million
Vodafone (GSM, UMTS) - 165 million
China Unicom (IS-2000, GSM) - 100.1 million
movistar (Telefonica) (GSM, UMTS, IS-2000) - 81.4 million
T-Mobile (GSM, UMTS) - 78.9 million
Cingular (IS-136, GSM, UMTS3) - 51.6 million
Orange (GSM, UMTS) - 49 million
NTT DoCoMo (PDC, FOMA) - 45.9 million
Verizon Wireless (IS-2000) - 45.5 million
Mobile TeleSystems - MTS (GSM) - 34.22 million
Vivo (IS-2000, IS-136) - 27 million
TIM (GSM, UMTS) - 26.3 million
Turkcell (GSM) - 23.4 million
Sprint PCS (IS-2000) - 22.2 million
O2 (GSM) - 21.3 million
Hutchison (GSM, UMTS) - 20 million

 

[Decotey]

Well not all people have a cellphone in SA remember...

Its actually scary how many people have cellphones. Your average begger on the street has a cellphone, although they might not have a roof to sleep under.