www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Network stability has been reported by mobile operator MTN South Africa and it also reported that its network will be 100 percent operational in the days leading up to and during the opening match of the 2010 FIFA World between South Africa and Mexico on June 11.

The MTN network did not experience any congestion whatsoever even after extreme demands has been placed on its network over the three days leading up to the opening match. According to the firm’s CTO Sameer Dave, the network was very stable and able to accommodate the high demand while from June 9 to June 12, there was a massive increase in data usage driven by 3G/HSPA and the subscriber-generated SMS volumes reached a total of 25 million over the four-day period, peaking at 6.46 million on June 11 at an average of 6.26 million SMS sent over the four days.

Network coverage has been enhanced at all ten of the FIFA-approved stadiums and the spectators are provided with the best possible coverage in terms of voice and data, but it also ring-fences each stadium so that it does not impact on the rest of the network.