Vodacom LTE drive continues

Vodacom unveiled its preliminary results for the year ended 31 March 2013 today (20 May 2013), revealing that it now has 600 live LTE sites and over 6,000 3G sites.

Vodacom said that it invested R6.967 billion (11.9% of revenue) into its South African network over the last year.

The majority of the capital expenditure was concentrated on transmission, the radio access network (RAN) renewal project and adding new 3G base stations to the network.

“We now have over 6 000 sites connected with high speed transmission,” said Vodacom.

Vodacom added 904 new 3G base stations and 467 new 2G base stations in the year, bringing the total number of 3G base stations to 6,167, and 2G base stations to 9,348.

“In October 2012, we launched South Africa’s first commercial LTE network, with just over 600 sites operational at 31 March 2013,” Vodacom said.

“Our network strategy is to differentiate our brand by offering customers the widest coverage, fastest speeds and best data experience through the widespread deployment of 3G, HSPA+, LTE and high capacity backhaul.”

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