8ta is a South African mobile telecommunications company. 8ta was launched in October 2010 and is owned by Telkom. 8ta phone numbers use the 0811 to 0814 dialling prefixes. 8ta's
competition in South Africa includes MTN, Vodacom

Vodacom

Vodacom is a pan-African mobile telecommunications company, and was the 1st cellular network in South Africa. It provides GSM service to more than 35 million customers in South Africa, Tanzania, Lesotho, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Revenue for the year ended 31 March 2008...

, Cell C and Virgin Mobile

Virgin Mobile South Africa

Virgin Mobile South Africa is a joint-venture between Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Group and Cell C. Virgin Mobile South Africa launched in 2006. In February 2011 it was reported that Cell C's 50% stake in Virgin Mobile is to be sold to Virgin Group of the UK and Calico Investments of the Bahamas...

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Technology

The 8ta network provides voice and data products and services over a unified 2G / 3G network.

Recently, 8ta launched a promotional data package called Internet Promo 5 which is currently the cheapest wireless broadband offering in South Africa and is also cheaper than any fixed line broadband offering available in South Africa. The price of the promotion is R199 for 10 GB of data and the network supports theoretical speeds of up to a maximum of 21.1 Mbps currently.