What's the story? South Africa to sunset 2G and 3G
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Connecting Africa's Paula Gilbert provides an update on Safaricom's new network in Ethiopia, which will be the country's first private telecoms operator and end the country's decades-long telecoms monopoly.We also discuss why South Africa's government wants to turn off 2G and 3G by 2024 and 2025, respectively, but operators say it's too soon as about 60% of mobile traffic in South Africa still runs on 3G.You can download a lightly edited transcript of the podcast here.Here are a few topics we covered:Safaricom launches new network in Ethiopia. (01:18)Role of Ethiopia's government in Safaricom's launch in the region. (04:30)Government in South Africa wants service providers to sunset 2G and 3G. (05:38)Potential impact of turning off 2G and 3G on mobile phone users. (09:17) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
