南非的網路涵蓋

南非 的數字代表什麼

有兩個數字重要，但每家業者只引用其中一個。一般速度為 42 Mbps，它告訴你順的時候是什麼樣子。

值得看的是第十百分位，10 Mbps。那是一天當中最差的那一成：車站上方的基地台塞滿了，你周圍的人全都掛在同一個訊號上。中位數高、底線低的國家，就是那種一路順到你真正需要它的那一刻的國家。

如果這趟行程少不了視訊通話或熱點分享，請以忙碌時的數字來規劃，而不是一般速度。

在南非網路壅塞時會發生什麼

壅塞不是故障，是星期二晚上。問題在於你的 eSIM 能拿它怎麼辦，而多數旅遊 eSIM 的答案是：沒辦法。一個國家一份批發合約、一張網，站在路邊除了再跟別家買第二張 eSIM 之外沒有出路。

在這裡 Orbislo 的流量走 Vodacom 和 MTN。你所在的網變差時，我們會在旅程中途、不必你開口就把你換到另一張網，事後才告訴你，而不是當下打斷你。

南非的行動電信業者

• Vodacom: Vodacom paid the most in South Africa's first spectrum auction in March 2022, R5.38 billion for 20 MHz at 700 MHz, 80 MHz at 2600 MHz and 10 MHz at 3500 MHz.
• MTN: MTN spent R5.15 billion in the March 2022 auction on 20 MHz at 800 MHz, 40 MHz at 2600 MHz and 40 MHz at 3500 MHz, the largest block of 3500 MHz spectrum any bidder bought at that sale.
• Telkom, rain, Cell C and Liquid: In the 2022 auction Telkom paid R2.11 billion for 20 MHz at 800 MHz and 22 MHz at 3500 MHz, and rain R1.43 billion for 20 MHz each at 700 and 2600 MHz. Cell C took 10 MHz and Liquid 4 MHz at 3500 MHz.
• Vodacom: Vodacom South Africa had 39.1 million prepaid and 7.0 million contract customers at 31 March 2026, and 28.2 million of the smart devices on its network were 4G or 5G capable.
• MTN: MTN South Africa ended 2025 with 40.6 million subscribers, of whom 29.7 million were prepaid and 4.6 million postpaid, and 22.0 million active data users.
• Cell C: Cell C began moving its customers onto rival networks in January 2021, contract and broadband customers to Vodacom and prepaid customers to MTN, while decommissioning its own towers over three years. A Cell C line largely rides on those two networks.
• rain: rain is a licensed mobile network operator running a national 4G and 5G network on its own spectrum at 700 MHz, 1800 MHz, 2600 MHz and 3600 MHz, alongside one of the country's largest 5G home internet networks.

南非的舊世代網路

• Government had set 31 December 2027 as the deadline to switch off 2G and 3G, but in 2025 the communications department said it would no longer impose a date and would leave the timing to each operator, area by area.

南非的 5G

• Vodacom launched mobile 5G on 4 May 2020 on 20 sites in Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town, using 50 MHz of temporary 3.5 GHz spectrum that the regulator released during the COVID-19 state of disaster.
• rain launched what it calls Africa's first commercial standalone 5G network, built on a dedicated 5G core rather than on a 4G one.
• 5G reached 58.0 percent of South Africans in 2025, up from 46.6 percent a year earlier, according to operator returns collected by the regulator.
• Rural 5G is thin. In 2025 it reached 74 percent of rural Gauteng but only 7 percent of rural Eastern Cape and 13 percent of rural Northern Cape. Urban 5G ranged from 89 percent in the Western Cape to 38 percent in the Free State.

南非網路須知

• In 2025, 3G reached 99.85 percent of the population and 4G 99.5 percent, but mobile broadband reached only 82.1 percent of the country's land area, so parts of the countryside have no mobile data signal at all.
• South Africa counted 117.3 million mobile subscriptions in September 2025, of which 96.5 million were prepaid and 20.8 million postpaid, with prepaid falling about 1 percent in the year.
• When four West African submarine cables, WACS, SAT-3, ACE and MainOne, failed on 14 March 2024, Vodacom blamed an undersea cable for disruption. The impact on South Africa was smaller than in most affected countries, which was credited to its nine submarine cables.