Dialing Code: 07: Cellular
The market is dominated by Vodacom (which has 10 million users) and MTN (which claims 5,22 million). In 2001 a third licence was awarded to Cell C, which had about three million subscribers in May 2004. Virgin Mobile is another player in the wireless telecommunications arena, operating on Cell C's network infrastructure.
"Prepaid" customers - those who pay for their airtime in advance - make up more than 90 percent of all new business. Most of the more than 9 000 people who sign up every day pick this option. South Africans are also a nation of SMS senders. Vodacom transmitted two billion SMSs between March 2003 and March 2004, which was up 33,3 percent from 2003.
A listing of mobile service providers is below:
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