Vodacom reported a 19.2% increase in data traffic on its network between 1 April 2021 and 31 March 2022.<\/p>\n
In its annual financial results released on Monday, Vodacom said that during the fourth quarter of its financial year, data traffic growth accelerated to 24.3%.<\/p>\n
The mobile network operator added 1.8 million data customers, reaching 23.5 million customers \u2014 an 8.2% increase.<\/p>\n
Smart devices were up by 13.1% to 26.2 million, while 4G and 5G devices increased by 23.9% to 18.5 million.<\/p>\n
The average usage per smart device on Vodacom\u2019s network increased by 14.0% to 2.4GB per month.<\/p>\n
Prepaid data revenue increased by 3.1% to R10.0 billion.<\/p>\n
Vodacom said strong prepaid usage growth was offset by price transformation.<\/p>\n
This included its zero-rated ConnectU platform, discounted offers for poor communities, and further cuts to headline monthly data bundles implemented on 1 April 2021.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe invested R11.1 billion in our network, up 10.6%, to expand network capacity to manage additional demand for data, modernise our network to prepare for the next wave of Covid\u201319 infections and enhance our IT platforms to maintain our competitive edge,\u201d Vodacom said.<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking ahead, we will leverage our newly acquired spectrum assets in South Africa to improve 4G services and invest incrementally into 5G infrastructure to connect our customers for a better future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vodacom acquired 110 megahertz of radio frequency spectrum<\/strong><\/a> during industry regulator Icasa\u2019s auction, bidding R5.4 billion for the assets.<\/p>\n \u201cWe also accelerated spend on technology [operational expenditure] during the year to support improved resilience of the network,\u201d the company stated.<\/p>\n \u201cOur programme to improve resilience addressed power challenges and higher rates of theft and vandalism.\u201d<\/p>\n Vodacom reported substantial data traffic growth and an increase in data subscribers on its network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":413546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[35,41],"class_list":["post-444570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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