SA will be among first to deploy 5G: director-general

[Ockie]

Department of telecommunications & postal services director-general Robert Nkuna has vowed that South Africa will be among the first countries to deploy next-generation 5G networks.
Speaking at Telkom’s Satnac conference in the Western Cape on Monday, Nkuna said government hopes to license spectrum in the 3.5GHz band for the deployment of 5G infrastructure. It wants network operators to start to build 5G networks soon after the conclusion of the World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) taking place in October and November 2019 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

https://techcentral.co.za/sa-will-be-among-first-to-deploy-5g-director-general/83491/

 

[Ockie]

Well, Lesotho already beat us to 5G

 

[wizardofid]

Well, Lesotho already beat us to 5G

It's not available to the general public, two corpate clients ordered the service.It's about the general public....

 

[Ockie]

It's not available to the general public, two corpate clients ordered the service.It's about the general public....

Still, it is in use on a revenue generating basis there .... because Lesotho gave the spectrum required.