Mobile coverage and smartphone penetration in South Africa 2015-2020
As of 2020, 99.8 percent of the population in South Africa had access to the 3G mobile network. 4G/LTE coverage increased significantly from 53 percent in 2015 to 96.4 percent in 2020. This trend was accompanied by rapidly growing smartphone penetration that more than doubled to 91.2 percent over the four year period from 2016 to 2019. In 2020, 0.7 percent of the South Africa had 5G coverage.
