Vodacom, MTN, Rain comment on digital dividend spectrum becoming available

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South Africa's analogue TV switch-off — Vodacom, MTN, Rain weigh in

Sentech has officially switched off all terrestrial analogue television transmissions above 694MHz, and Vodacom, MTN, and Rain are ready to take advantage of the newly-freed spectrum.

MyBroadband asked South Africa's major mobile network operators — Vodacom, MTN, Telkom, and Rain — if they could access the radio frequency spectrum they won at auction and what they have planned. Cell C did not bid on any spectrum in these bands.
 
I really hope that Vodacom deploys the lower band for LTE in metros like Joburg. Our Vodacom LTE signal is bad at our office. We do have a Cel-FI booster installed from Vodacom with antenna on our roof...but it does not make a difference. I think it might be because it only works on plain LTE...whereas our phones connects with LTE-Advanced or 4G+.

5G would be great...but with Vodacom and MTN not having Vo5G it would not help with voice calls which still relies on VoLTE.

@Jan thank you for the article. Very informative:)
 
Just a observation. I now get 5G on my phone all the way into the cottage. 5G used to pretty much dissapear when closing garage door behind me. Related? Don't know...but interesting.
 
I live in a suburb of Durbanville and never get more than 2 bars of signal on MTN with a 5G capable phone, yet they want to roll out to rural areas first. First fix your existing issues MTN where everybody has a smartphone and then move on to rural areas where every third person has one!
 
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