Vodacom Expands Access to 4G with Affordable R67 Smartphone Initiative

In honour of Mandela Month and successful enactment with this year’s theme, ‘It is successful our hands to combat poorness and inequity’, Vodacom  is helping loyal preselected prepaid customers who usage 2G handsets to upgrade to a 4G Kicka 6 Smartphone for lone R67. This peculiar connection volition beryllium disposable astatine selected stores, starting successful KwaZulu-Natal and past expanding to Mpumalanga and Limpopo provinces.

“Millions of South Africans inactive trust connected 2G devices, limiting their quality to entree indispensable integer services, specified arsenic education, employment and fiscal services. By offering affordable 4G smartphones, we are empowering radical to enactment afloat successful the integer economy. Following Madiba’s bequest of 67 years of warring for equality, we each person the powerfulness to marque a affirmative impact. Vodacom is arrogant to crook that content into enactment successful the communities we serve.”

– Rishaad Tayob, Director of Consumer Business, Vodacom South Africa.

The R67 connection connected the Kicka 6 Smartphone, which usually retails astatine R699, will tally from July, targeting pre-selected customers with a 2G device. In summation to the discount, customers volition person a 20GB Buy and Get information proposition worthy R149 (subject to a R29 recharge criterion) to assistance them commencement their integer travel confidently.

On Mandela Day, 18 July 2025, Vodacom volition spell a measurement further by giving distant 67 smartphones arsenic portion of Vodacom’s ‘Surprise and Delight’ initiative, which aims to reward loyal customers by shifting them to a 4G handset. Eligible customers volition beryllium selected aft participating successful Vodacom’s Daily V-Up travel and volition request to sojourn the Vodacom World Store successful Midrand to commercialized successful their 2G devices.

Vodacom continues to democratise connectivity by moving connected bringing down the outgo of smartphones. This includes offering lower-cost 4G-enabled devices, specified arsenic the HiSense U607, which retails at R399, and the Vodacom V54 astatine R499.  

In summation to democratising connectivity and bridging the integer divide, Vodacom besides expanded its portfolio of affordable devices by introducing the 4G Cloud Phone, which we launched successful 2024 retailing astatine R199 and the itel IT9300 4G device, which presently retails astatine R249.

“Our Mandela Month promotions enactment our ongoing purpose-led efforts to connection affordable entry-level smartphones and handset financing solutions. By making 4G instrumentality ownership much accessible, we tin link everyone to a amended future.”

– Rishaad Tayob, Director of Consumer Business, Vodacom South Africa.