Limpopo Business 2017-18 edition

Long-term investments are
paying off for Vodacom Limpopo
Customers are reaping the benefits of improved connectivity.
Vodacom Limpopo's major investments in infrastructure
are paying dividends for customers who
now benefit from converged services that go well
beyond the popular baseline of voice and data.
This has resulted in an improved user experience
and wider access to services, including customers
in deep rural areas.
The enhanced infrastructure means not only better
performance for existing services, but has also
brought with it a growing customer base wanting
access to an expanded rollout of digital services
such as video and music streaming, and the
Internet of Things (IoT).
Vodacom Limpopo prides itself on delivering innovative
solutions while at the same time improving
customer care and driving down costs for customers.
In particular, businesses and government
departments are seeing tangible benefit and this
has contributed to solid growth in the region’s
Enterprise Business Unit. Public sector departments,
large enterprises and small businesses are
attracted to a range of products and services that
are scalable, reliable and fully customised to fit
specific requirements. Our dedicated back-end
support and customer obsession gives Vodacom
Limpopo an edge as a partner of choice.
investments. "To achieve this, we secured funding
to continue the investment into the network
which is the platform that underpins everything
we provide."
Chris adds: "We are fully aligned to the provincial
government plans to invest in key economic zones,
again highlighting the link between communications
and an improved standard of living."
The investment in the region in 2017 amounted to
R217-million, which mostly went into the network
expansion on LTE (long term evolution), 3G cellular
network expansion, new towers and, importantly,
into the migration and introduction of the more
recent transmission network infrastructure. The
expansion of these programmes enables customers
to access higher data speeds.
Managing Executive for the Limpopo region, Chris
Lazarus, has witnessed first-hand the direct correlation
with an increase in access to communications
and an improvement in living standards. "Vodacom
is about changing lives," he says, and illustrates
this with reference to the company's significant
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