Vodacom’s Virtual Classrooms to accelerate digital inclusion in SA schools
The Minister of Communication and Digital Technologies (DCDT) issued directions in Government Gazette No. 43164 published on 26 March 2020. The purpose of the temporary spectrum assignments was to alleviate network challenges, ease congestion, and ensure good quality of service for consumers during the Covid-19 pandemic. The obligations provided licensees with access to high-demand spectrum to make available connectivity to schools with a minimum speed of 10 Mbps to support virtual teaching during the Covid-19 national disaster. The Basic Education Sector agreed that the schools should be provided with a turnkey solution. Therefore, 17 schools were selected in the 8 NHI Districts to pilot the Virtual classroom solution. Vodacom was allocated six schools in three provinces, namely Limpopo, Northern Cape and KwaZulu Natal to implement the Virtual Classroom Solution. Driven by its purpose to connect for a better future, Vodacom Group, in partnership with the Department of ...