I often like to write about news and the countries in which it happens, that are shall we say, not in the daily hotbed of news from Europe and the US. To that end, I’ve mentioned Vodacom before (here), who are busy making things happen in S.Africa.
Previously Vodacom had enabled HSUPA on their network (see here), and the latest is that they have extended this support to new regions, namely “within the Western and Northern Cape to outside of the major metropolitan centres” – in real terms this means four new towns covered.
This sort of news might not sound like the most entertaining or fascinating, but let’s consider that it is one more small piece in the puzzle of ubquitous high-speed wireless access globally. As LTE specification is being finished off (see here), then rolling out HSPA networks on 3G as much as possible makes a lot of sense.
I for one am fulling expecting to enjoy the benefits of super-3G wireless data roaming on my next trip out to S.Africa! 🙂
[Via: cellular-news.com]