Rain Mobile will launch fast, affordable mobile data services in metropolitan areas in 2018, and aims to shift the way consumers think about mobile data in South Africa.<\/p>\n
This is according to Rain shareholder and director Michael Jordaan, who predicts that a reduction in the price of mobile data will be a big trend in 2018.<\/p>\n
His plans for Rain include getting users to stop thinking in megabytes, and start thinking in gigabytes.<\/p>\n
In the past year, Rain launched its new brand, designed its new LTE-A network, and rolled out 2,000 base stations across South Africa.<\/p>\n
On the back of these developments, Rain Mobile launched an Alpha trial<\/strong><\/a> in November – the first phase of testing of its LTE-A mobile network in metropolitan areas.<\/p>\n This runs alongside its existing fixed-LTE-A services which it offers through local ISPs.<\/p>\n Once the Rain Alpha test has been successfully concluded, the trial will be extended to a select group of users outside the Rain business.<\/p>\n As part of Rain\u2019s mobile plans, Outsurance CEO Willem Roos<\/strong><\/a> will take up the position of Rain Mobile CEO on 31 December 2017.<\/p>\n Rain Mobile has a large benefit over traditional mobile operators, as it does not have to protect legacy income from voice. This means\u00a0it can bring competition to the South African mobile data market.<\/p>\n This is expected to take the form of data-centric products aimed at smartphone users.<\/p>\n Rain Mobile will launch fast, affordable mobile data services in metropolitan areas in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":240226,"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":[35,6204,43716,46607,46832],"class_list":["post-241108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-michael-jordaan","tag-rain","tag-rain-mobile","tag-willem-roos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241108"}],"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=241108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241234,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241108\/revisions\/241234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Expanding the trial<\/h3>\n
Now read:\u00a0Rain Mobile launches Alpha trial<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"