Liquid Telecom has released a statement in which it announced plans to launch a wholesale 5G network in South Africa in early 2020.<\/p>\n
“Liquid Telecom is to launch the first 5G wholesale roaming service in South Africa,’ said the company.<\/p>\n
“Available from early 2020 in all major South African cities, this latest fifth-generation of mobile Internet connectivity will enable wholesale operators to create innovative, ultra-fast, and scalable digital services for their customers.”<\/p>\n
Strive Masiyiwa, Chairman of Liquid Telecom, said mobile network operators and ISPs will have open access to the 5G mobile network.<\/p>\n
Liquid Telecom will use its 3.5GHz spectrum to build the 5G network, he added.<\/p>\n
Liquid Telecom is one of several companies in South Africa that has spectrum suitable for 5G and previously said it has big plans<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0to use this spectrum.<\/p>\n Rain, which has a commercial 5G offering available to consumers in certain parts of the country, was the first big 5G mover in the local space.<\/p>\n It plans<\/strong><\/a> to expand its network substantially this year, CEO Willem Roos previously told MyBroadband – allowing it to offer improved coverage and capacity.<\/p>\n The goal of this expansion is to compete directly with fibre operators in SA.<\/p>\n \u201cOur initial 5G network of 250 sites already \u2018passes\u2019 500,000 households. That\u2019s almost an equal size to the two largest fibre network operators in the country,” said Rain.<\/p>\n Rain aims to launch 450 more sites in 2020, taking its total number of 5G sites to 700.<\/p>\n Liquid Telecom has released a statement in which it announced plans to launch a wholesale 5G network early this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":328563,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62528],"tags":[19420,35,3116,43716],"class_list":["post-335776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5g","tag-5g","tag-headline","tag-liquid-telecom","tag-rain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335776"}],"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=335776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335782,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335776\/revisions\/335782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Competing with Rain<\/h3>\n
Now read: Rain\u2019s big 5G expansion plans for 2020<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"