well, here's the funny thing:
Cell C is piggybacking off of vodacom's network. as far as I still understand, Cell C is still not on 3G (only GPRS). now the plot thickens. Virgin doesn't want to deal with Vodacom. so they're "piggybacking" off of Cell C. Fascinating enough, while vodacom charges upwards of a rand (depending on packages etc) per meg, Virgin manages to get by with 50 cents per meg. really does show you how Vodacom is raping.
To see just how poorly the whole alphabet soup of mobile suppliers are doing in SA, compare with the new stuff coming out in the UK: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/07...wireless_tech/
It goes a bit technical, but shows the history of all the acronyms used in mobile connectivity. Now wouldn't it be nice if we could simply skip all these intermediate technologies and go for LTE instead? 100Mb/s download & 50Mb/s upload?
Of course then the gov needs to open some more frequency for Vodacom/MTN (all the rest are still piggy backing off them, mostly of V though)
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