Broadband in every home from Vodacom
Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub said that the company is preparing itself for a full scale LTE deployment, to ensure that Vodacom can deliver broadband access in every home.
Vodacom currently has 600 live LTE sites and over 6,000 3G sites, with plans to aggressively grow this footprint.
Part of the network investment is aimed at connecting as many Vodacom base-stations to the operator’s own transmission links.
Speaking to Moneyweb’s Hilton Tarrant, Joosub said that Vodacom already has 66% of their base-stations on their own transmission networks.
Joosub added that they want to increase their self-provisioning transmission percentage to close to 100%.
“I think eventually we will get to 100% purely from the basis that we’re preparing ourselves for LTE, and really making sure that we can have broadband access in every home,” said Joosub.
“So on the one side we’ve been rolling out the fibre in the high-speed transmission, and then the other side we’ve been swapping out the equipment to be LTE ready, which would have finished by March [2014].”
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