{"id":276333,"date":"2018-09-28T15:08:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T13:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=276333"},"modified":"2018-09-28T15:12:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T13:12:29","slug":"rain-fixed-lte-sales-suffered-due-to-network-capacity-problems-isp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/276333-rain-fixed-lte-sales-suffered-due-to-network-capacity-problems-isp.html","title":{"rendered":"Rain fixed-LTE sales suffered due to network capacity problems – ISP"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rain recently announced<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0it would suspend sales of its fixed-LTE products through partner ISPs from November 2018.<\/p>\n

The company said it made this decision due to increasing capacity constraints on its network following the launch of its mobile products.<\/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 Rain CEO Willem Roos told MyBroadband.<\/p>\n

Rain clarified that demand for its R50-per-GB mobile plan remained strong and stated it would revisit the decision to halt fixed-LTE sales once it had improved its network coverage and capacity.<\/p>\n

The company launched its first mobile data products on 6 June 2018, after which 4,860 SIM cards were activated<\/a><\/strong> on Rain’s mobile network by the end of that month.<\/p>\n

Rain fixed-LTE customers with existing connections will not be affected by the suspension of sales, added Rain.<\/p>\n

To get an idea of how successful Rain’s fixed-LTE offering was in South Africa, MyBroadband spoke to ISPs who offered the product from launch.<\/p>\n

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MWEB<\/h3>\n

MWEB continues to offer Rain fixed-LTE products in addition to Cell C LTE packages, although the Rain packages will no longer be offered after 31 October 2018.<\/p>\n

The ISP told MyBroadband that Rain fixed-LTE services continued to show strong growth after its launch.<\/p>\n

“We were really happy with the initial sales performance, which maintained strong growth post-launch,” MWEB said.<\/p>\n

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Webafrica<\/h3>\n

Webafrica head of product Greg Wright told MyBroadband that the ISP immediately discontinued the sale of Rain fixed-LTE products as soon as it heard Rain was going to suspend sales.<\/p>\n

With regards to the success of the product, Wright said that Rain’s fixed-LTE packages took off well but dropped following capacity constraints on its network.<\/p>\n

“Sale volumes greatly exceeded our expectations in the beginning – however, sales slowed down as soon as Rain dropped the double-data promotion and the market became aware of Rain’s capacity constraints,” Wright said.<\/p>\n

He added that Webafrica’s overall LTE sales volumes have remained the same after removing Rain packages, due to the overlapping coverage of its Cell C 4G product.<\/p>\n

“Cell C\u2019s 4G coverage virtually overlaps Rain’s coverage on a 1:1 ratio, hence we haven\u2019t seen a reduction in overall LTE sales volumes after pulling Rain from our offering.”<\/p>\n

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Now read:\u00a0Using Rain in a dual-SIM smartphone \u2013 Works perfectly and only cost me R9.72<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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