Vodacom has launched a Licensed Assisted Access (LAA) site at its Midrand campus and demonstrated data speeds of over 650Mbps using a commercial handset.<\/p>\n
A Motorola Z2 Force handset reached a peak download speed of 653Mbps. This is the fastest speed test ever achieved on a commercial LTE network and device in South Africa, it said.<\/p>\n
Vodacom’s LAA site is the first instance in South Africa where 4 component carrier aggregation has been deployed on a live LTE network, it added.<\/p>\n
The site uses a single 10MHz carrier of Vodacom\u2019s 1,800MHz spectrum and an additional 3 carriers, each of 20MHz unlicensed 5GHz spectrum.<\/p>\n
4×4 MIMO technology was used for the 1,800MHz carrier and 256 QAM (Quadrature Amplitude Modulation) was activated on all carriers.<\/p>\n
Vodacom said it will soon roll out LAA to other sites on its network, starting with airports, malls, and office buildings.<\/p>\n
The availability and pricing for LAA-capable handsets will be communicated as the technology rolls out, said Vodacom.<\/p>\n
Vodacom has launched a Licensed Assisted Access site at its Midrand campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":172854,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[46049,44118,9573,41],"class_list":["post-229155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-4cc","tag-laa","tag-mimo","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229155"}],"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=229155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229157,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229155\/revisions\/229157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}