Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub said they are using the new LTE-A network being built by Multisource.<\/p>\n
Multisource acquired iBurst’s parent company<\/a><\/strong>, Wireless Business Solutions (WBS),\u00a0at\u00a0the end of 2015, and told subscribers it will switch existing iBurst customers to LTE-Advanced technology.<\/p>\n The LTE-A network will consist of WBS\u00a0towers and infrastructure, in combination with a lease agreement with Vodacom<\/a><\/strong> to share its network infrastructure.<\/p>\n However, the launch date of the network has not been finalised.<\/p>\n Speaking at\u00a0Vodacom’s annual results presentation, Joosub\u00a0said the WBS network is live and carrying traffic.<\/p>\n Joosub said the network gives Vodacom room to manoeuvre while the government’s National Integrated\u00a0ICT Policy White Paper is being discussed.<\/p>\n More importantly, it gives Vodacom\u00a0access to additional network capacity while\u00a0South Africa’s migration to digital TV fails to take off, and high-demand 4G spectrum remains unassigned.<\/p>\n “It’s a strategic partnership for us,” said Joosub.<\/p>\n The\u00a0industry needs to make a plan in the interim, and Multisource’s wholesale network\u00a0forms part of that plan, he said.<\/p>\n Joosub said other operators can make similar agreements with Multisource and predicts they will when “they feel the crunch”.<\/p>\n Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub said they are using the new LTE-A network being built by Multisource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":180070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[35,683,18116,7521,41,19242],"class_list":["post-210772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-iburst","tag-long-term-evolution-lte","tag-multisource","tag-vodacom","tag-wireless-business-solutions-wbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210778,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210772\/revisions\/210778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0iBurst switching to LTE-Advanced \u2014\u00a0The details<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"