Vodacom extends LTE coverage to over 400 base stations

Vodacom has reported that in under a month it has managed to more than double the number of LTE-enabled base stations on its network. As of November 19, the company has over 400 LTE-enabled base stations live and is ahead of schedule to meet its target of switching on 500 sites by the end of 2012.

As part of its push to rollout the new technology to cities across South Africa, the company is also pleased to announce the commercial launch of LTE services in Durban. Cape Town is expected to follow before the end of the year.

Durban marks the third city to benefit from LTE after Johannesburg and Pretoria.

LTE was first launched in South Africa by Vodacom in October and the service is currently available to Vodacom contract customers. It will be available to top-up and prepaid customers in 2013. It also requires customers to use a 64K or 128K SIM card.