MTN South Africa\u00a0said it\u00a0has achieved the fastest indoor mobile data service in South Africa using LTE-Advanced and LTE-Unlicensed technology.<\/p>\n
The service is able to provide data speeds of up to 1Gbps, which MTN said is the first Gigabit per second speed ever recorded in South Africa using a mobile broadband connection.<\/p>\n
MTN said its 1Gbps system uses\u00a0Huawei’s latest small cell Lampsite product, which aggregates two unlicensed LTE 5GHz carriers (40MHz) with one licensed LTE 2,100MHz carrier (15MHz).<\/p>\n
LTE-Unlicensed technology operates in the 5GHz unlicensed band, and is ideal for in-building deployments.<\/p>\n
“MTN has been upgrading base stations and our fibre optic transmission network in preparation for this launch,” said MTN acting CTO\u00a0Krishna Chetty.<\/p>\n
“It’s great to claim another South African first for MTN with the trial towards building a 4.5G network,” said Chetty.<\/p>\n
It should be noted that there are currently no commercially-available devices which support LTE-U.<\/p>\n
Mobile operators expect devices which\u00a0incorporate LTE-U to launch before the middle of 2016.<\/p>\n
Cell C achieves 600Mbps in LTE-U test<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Blazingly-fast 200Mbps on Vodacom LTE-U<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n