{"id":212780,"date":"2017-05-30T11:55:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T09:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=212780"},"modified":"2017-05-30T11:58:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T09:58:33","slug":"new-multisource-lte-a-network-produces-impressive-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/broadband\/212780-new-multisource-lte-a-network-produces-impressive-results.html","title":{"rendered":"New Multisource LTE-A network produces impressive results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest MyBroadband Speed Test results show that the new WBS LTE-A network in Gauteng and Cape Town provides an average downlink speed higher than 60Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>Multisource is rolling out a national LTE-A network, using WBS towers and infrastructure, in combination with a lease agreement with Vodacom to share infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>On 15 May,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/210772-multisource-lte-a-network-is-live-and-vodacom-is-using-it.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub said<\/strong><\/a> they are already using the new LTE-A network being built by Multisource.<\/p>\n<p>Joosub said the network gives Vodacom room to manoeuvre while the government\u2019s National Integrated ICT Policy White Paper is being discussed.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, it gives Vodacom access to additional network capacity while SA\u2019s migration to digital TV fails to take off, and high-demand 4G spectrum remains unassigned.<\/p>\n<p>According to the latest Speed Test App results, the new Multisource network produces impressive results.<\/p>\n<p>Download speeds on the network ranged between 46Mbps and 96Mbps, with an average performance of 65Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>Upload speeds and latency were equally impressive, with averages of 34Mbps and 23ms to a Johannesburg server.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Average download speed \u2013 <strong>64.94Mbps<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Average upload speed \u2013 <strong>34.14Mbps<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Average latency \u2013 <strong>22.94ms<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>While these speeds are an indication of a good network, the real test will only come when more traffic is taken on.<\/p>\n<p>The Multisource LTE-A network is currently only open to a small number of users, which will change when the network is opened to all Multisource and Vodacom subscribers.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/210772-multisource-lte-a-network-is-live-and-vodacom-is-using-it.html\">Multisource LTE-A network is live and Vodacom is using it<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest MyBroadband Speed Test results show the new Multisource LTE-A network putting in an impressive performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":84793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,14],"tags":[35,9177,27659,7521,41,3572],"class_list":["post-212780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-lte-advanced","tag-lte-a","tag-multisource","tag-vodacom","tag-wbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212780"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212822,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212780\/revisions\/212822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}