By Daniel Itai.
Johannesburg, South Africa. (News if The South) – South Africa’s largest network provider, Vodacom is now offering 5G services to it’s customers.
“Vodacom has switched on Africa’s first live 5G mobile network in three cities, Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town, with further roll-outs planned in other parts of the country.
This network will support both mobile and fixed-wireless services and is currently available on 20 live 5G sites, 18 of which are in Gauteng and two in Cape Town.
As a more efficient technology than its predecessors such as 3G and 4G, the deployment of 5G will help Vodacom manage the 40 percent increase in mobile network traffic and the 250 percent increase in fixed traffic experienced during the Covid-19 lockdown,” said Vodacom’s CEO Shameel Joosub, in a statement.
Vodacom announced in 2018 that it had begun modernising its network to prepare for the deployment of standards-based 5G technology in South Africa, subject to the allocation of spectrum.
The mobile network provider expects to expand its initial 5G roll-out as more smartphones, Wi-Fi and fixed-wireless routers become available.
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