30 September 2024
Vodacom South Africa has built an enablement platform for mobile virtual network operators and signed up its first MVNO client, declaring the platform open for business.
The client, Mr Price Mobile, is the first MVNO to be supported on Vodacom’s network. It is now able to activate all the new customers on its network.
Vodacom is the third mobile network operator in South Africa to support MVNOs. Cell C pioneered the MVNO model in the local market and remains by far the largest host of MVNOs. Mr Price Mobile has utilised Cell C’s network infrastructure and will continue to do so.
The partnership with Mr Price Mobile means Vodacom is now compliant with communications regulator ICASA’s requirement for successful bidders in the 2022 spectrum auction to host and provide support to MVNOs.
