Cheaper international daytime telephone calls to South Africa Some of the UK’s tariffs for daytime calls to mobiles in South Africa are much cheaper than others – are you on the right one or should you switch? People with family or friends in South Africa tend to waste a fortune on their phone bills each year. Luckily for you, we’ve found some cheap daytime mobile calls you might be interested in. If your phone provider has increased its daytime rates to mobiles in South Africa, it’s quick and easy to switch to one of the providers in the best buy table below. South Africa call rates in the daytime Switching phone providers is quick, easy and free. If you’re paying too much for daytime calls to mobiles in South Africa, you should consider some of the providers and tariffs below.

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 Information on Communications and Transport in South Africa:

• South Africa » International Dialing code: 00 27 (note: you can ignore the double zero and just use a plus + sign before the number)
• South Africa » Airports: 728 (2004 est.)
• South Africa » Airports - with paved runways: total: 144 over 3,047 m: 10 2,438 to 3,047 m: 5 1,524 to 2,437 m: 51 914 to 1,523 m: 67 under 914 m: 11 (2004 est.)
• South Africa » Airports - with unpaved runways: total: 584 1,524 to 2,437 m: 34 914 to 1,523 m: 300 under 914 m: 250 (2004 est.)
• South Africa » Capital: Pretoria; note - Cape Town is the legislative center and Bloemfontein the judicial center
• South Africa » Currency (code): rand (ZAR)
• South Africa » Economy - overview: South Africa is a middle-income, emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; a stock exchange that ranks among the 10 largest in the world; and a modern infrastructure supporting an efficient distribution of goods to major urban centers throughout the region. However, growth has not been strong enough to lower South Africa's high unemployment rate; and daunting economic problems remain from the apartheid era, especially poverty and lack of economic empowerment among the disadvantaged groups. South African economic policy is fiscally conservative, but pragmatic, focusing on targeting inflation and liberalizing trade as means to increase job growth and household income.
• South Africa » Flag description: two equal width horizontal bands of red (top) and blue separated by a central green band which splits into a horizontal Y, the arms of which end at the corners of the hoist side; the Y embraces a black isosceles triangle from which the arms are separated by narrow yellow bands; the red and blue bands are separated from the green band and its arms by narrow white stripes
• South Africa » Highways (km): total: 275,971 km paved: 57,568 km (including 2,032 km of expressways) unpaved: 218,403 km (2002)
• South Africa » Internet country code: .za
• South Africa » Internet hosts: 288,633 (2003)
• South Africa » Internet users: 3.1 million (2002)
• South Africa » Map references: Africa
• South Africa » National holiday: Freedom Day, 27 April (1994)
• South Africa » Ports and harbors: Cape Town, Durban, East London, Port Elizabeth, Richards Bay, Saldanha Bay
• South Africa » Radio broadcast stations: AM 14, FM 347 (plus 243 repeaters), shortwave 1 (1998)
• South Africa » Railways (km): total: 20,872 km narrow gauge: 20,436 km 1.065-m gauge (10,436 km electrified); 436 km 0.610-m gauge note: includes a 1,210 km commuter rail system (2004)
• South Africa » Telephone system: general assessment: the system is the best developed and most modern in Africa domestic: consists of carrier-equipped open-wire lines, coaxial cables, microwave radio relay links, fiber-optic cable, radiotelephone communication stations, and wireless local loops; key centers are Bloemfontein, Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg, Port Elizabeth, and Pretoria international: country code - 27; 2 submarine cables; satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Indian Ocean and 2 Atlantic Ocean)
• South Africa » Telephones - main lines in use: 4.844 million (2002)
• South Africa » Telephones - mobile cellular: 16.86 million (2003)
• South Africa » Television broadcast stations: 556 (plus 144 network repeaters) (1997)