4,860 SIM cards were activated on Rain\u2019s mobile network in June 2018 after the company launched its first mobile data products on 6 June.<\/p>\n
This was revealed in African Rainbow Capital\u2019s (ARC) maiden full-year financial results<\/strong><\/a>, which said \u201cby 30 June, some 4,860 SIM cards were activated without any marketing\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cMedia coverage and social media posts are the major drivers in expanding the mobile customer base,\u201d ARC said.<\/p>\n To date, Rain\u2019s subscriber numbers have been a closely-guarded secret – but as a 20% shareholder in Rain, ARC disclosed the company\u2019s growth in the mobile market.<\/p>\n Rain CEO Willem Roos confirmed that this number is accurate, but he would not comment on the sales after June.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are still in the process of building the foundations of the business and hope to significantly increase sales once these foundations are in place,\u201d Roos told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n While the growth in mobile subscribers is good news for Rain, it put so much pressure on its network that the company is suspending fixed-LTE sales<\/strong><\/a> from November.<\/p>\n \u201cDue to the strong sales of our fixed-wireless offering through ISPs, and the successful launch of our mobile product, we are rapidly utilising the currently-available capacity on our network,\u201d Roos said in July.<\/p>\n \u201cTo ensure a continued great experience for all our customers, we have decided to suspend new sales of the fixed-wireless offering for the present time.\u201d<\/p>\n Existing customers with Rain fixed-LTE connections will not be affected by this change, but new customers will not be able to order the product through ISPs.<\/p>\n Roos noted that sales of Rain\u2019s mobile product remain unaffected by the network constraints and that robust demand continues for the company\u2019s R50-per-gig data plan.<\/p>\n The closely-guarded secret of how many Rain Mobile SIMs were sold at launch is out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":263475,"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":[43716,46832],"class_list":["post-275665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-rain","tag-willem-roos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275665"}],"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=275665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275785,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275665\/revisions\/275785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Growth in mobile and fixed subscribers<\/h3>\n
Now read:\u00a0Rain to suspend fixed-LTE sales<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"