Prince Albert sits at the foot of the Swartberg, and the gravel road over the Swartberg Pass is one of the great drives of South Africa. The town has signal; the pass mostly does not. This is what phones with LastBar measured.
What phones found
When this page was written, on 26 October 2026, phones had measured 75 spots of about 0.1 km² within 14 km of the town and the northern side of the pass. By the best signal of any carrier: 5 with no signal, 29 weak, 23 fair, 6 good and 12 excellent, most of them in and around the town. The box above shows the figures as they are today.
On the pass itself few spots have been measured so far, and all of them had weak signal or none.
What that means for the pass
- Expect little or no signal once you are on the pass. Send your messages in Prince Albert or in Oudtshoorn first.
- Check the state of the road and the weather before you go: the pass is gravel and steep.
- Save the area in LastBar, so Find Signal can point you back to the nearest signal with no connection.
- Driving the pass with LastBar running maps it for the next person.
These are what phones measured, a day old as the public map shows them, and not a promise.
