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Vodacom South Africa has announced that all new, existing and upgrading customers are now eligible to subscribe to Prime Video or Prime Video Mobile Edition, regardless of price plan, whether prepaid or post-paid. Vodacom is the first telecommunications company in Africa to offer Prime Video Mobile Edition. With Prime Video Mobile Edition, customers benefit from Prime Video’s full catalogue of thousands of movies and TV series and Amazon Originals on a single mobile device The Prime Video app allows for streaming and downloading of content in standard definition.   At launch, Vodacom customers signing up for Prime Video Mobile Edition will enjoy a 30-day free trial and 10GB of Video Data valid for 30 days. Thereafter, they can enjoy this service for only R59 per month along with 3GB of Video Data allocated per month. Alternatively, Vodacom customers can sign up for the full Prime Video experience and get three months courtesy of Vodacom, and only pay R79 per month after the trial p...

  Vodacom South Africa and Nokia are working together to transform the operator’s nationwide optical transmission network through Nokia’s Photonic Service Engine 3 (PSE-3) chipset hardware to deliver high capacity transmission. Through a recent field trial, the companies achieved the highest data transmission rates and performance across their live optical network, demonstrating a significant increase in transmission network capacity for Vodacom South Africa.    The optical transmission network allows the transference of data on different light frequencies in an optic fibre cable. The deployment of the Nokia 1830 Photonic Service Switch will  assist Vodacom South Africa in maintaining high quality data services across the country, to both address   the ongoing surge in data traffic during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. It will also ensure that the optical network is ready for the higher peak network speeds which will result from the expansion of 5G servi...