Android vs iPhone vs Windows in South Africa

Vodacom recently released its financial results for the six months ended September 2015, with revenue for its South African operations increasing 5.1%.

The big story for Vodacom was data. Vodacom’s data revenue in South Africa now makes up 34.3% of service revenue, up from 26.4% a year ago.

This data growth is mainly driven by the uptake of smartphones and tablets. Vodacom now has 12.6 million smart devices on its network.

Smartphones account for 80.4%, data cards and modems account for 8.6%, while tablets account for 11%.

“We sold 5.5 million devices in the first half of the year, of which 1.3 million were Vodacom-branded devices,” said Vodacom.

“Tablets on the network increased 126.2% to 1.4 million, following the success of Vodacom’s 3G Smart tab.”

Mobile OS battle

Most of the devices on Vodacom’s network run Android. 57.4% of all smartphones are Android devices, while over 80% of tablets run Android.

The diagrams below show the breakdown of mobile operating systems by device type.

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