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This list contains the mobile country codes and mobile network codes for networks with country codes between 600 and 699, inclusively – a region that covers Africa and the surrounding islands (excluding the Canary Islands and Madeira, which are part of Spain and Portugal, respectively).
South Africa switched to a closed numbering system effective 16 January 2007. At that time, it became mandatory to dial the full 10-digit telephone number, including the zero in the three-digit area code, for local calls (e.g., 011 must be dialed from within Johannesburg).
In 1993 GSM was demonstrated for the first time in Africa at Telkom '93 in Cape Town. In 1994 the first GSM networks in Africa were launched in South Africa. [16] In 1994, South Africa launched a mobile operations, underwritten by Telkom in partnership with Vodafone, with 36,000 active customer on the network. [17]
This is a list of commercial Long-Term Evolution (LTE) networks in Africa, ... South Sudan: Digitel: 1800 3 Jul 2021 [294] MTN: 2600 7 Dec 2020 [295] Zain: 2100 1 Mar ...
MTN South Africa provides GSM, UMTS, HSPA+ (21.1 Mbit/s), HSUPA (42 Mbit/s, 2100 MHz), VOIP, 3G, 4G, LTE and 5G services. [62] On 1 December 2011, MTN became the second cellular provider to introduce 4G and LTE in South Africa [63] They were also the first network operator in South Africa to launch a live public 5G network available in ...
Area codes beginning with 06 were allocated to Namibia, including Walvis Bay, a South African exclave, which was not transferred to Namibian sovereignty until 1994. Following Namibia's independence in 1990, direct dialing between Namibia and South Africa was discontinued, and calls were classed as international.
Rain offers data-only mobile network services in South Africa.They provide 4G and LTE services through a partnership to use Vodacom and MTNs infrastructure. [9] [10] It launched The first Standalone 5G (3600) network in the country.
Amateur radio call signs in Africa are codes used to identify all radio communications, broadcasts and transmissions. The International Telecommunication Union assigns Africa as ITU region #1. It has assigned call signs prefix blocks to countries including 77 DXCC entities in and off-shore of Africa.