You can now buy a R67 smartphone in South Africa

You can now buy a R67 smartphone in South Africa

Vodacom is marking Mandela Month with a bold move to close the digital divide, offering select prepaid customers with 2G handsets the chance to upgrade to a 4G Kicka 6 smartphone for only R67. According to Mybroadband, the initiative, currently available in select KwaZulu-Natal stores, will soon expand to Mpumalanga and Limpopo. It forms part of Vodacom’s broader 2025 theme: “It is in our hands to combat poverty and inequity.” A smartphone for j…

Communications Department advocating for affordable smart phones - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies is seeking to make smart phones affordable. It says efforts are already under way to lobby National Treasury to waver the luxury tax on some smart devices. This is part of the department’s attempts to promote access to internet and the gig economy. The Department says 25 percent of the country’s population do not have access to broadband connectivity. Over 23 million people are excluded f…

Vodacom Is Offering R67 Smartphones To Deserving Customers - Stuff South Africa

Despite the government’s planned shutdown of the 2G and 3G spectrums, thousands of South Africans are still stuck on those decrepit 2G devices, denying them access to the flourishing and increasingly essential digital landscape. To help combat this, Vodacom is helping “preselected prepaid customers” upgrade their 2G smartphone to a modern 4G one for only R67, in honour of former President Nelson Mandela’s birthday. That’s, like, 134 chappies, ma…