Vodacom has concluded a deal with Rain to extend its roaming and facilities leasing agreements beyond its original agreement of 5,000 sites to virtually all Vodacom sites.<\/p>\n
This agreement will enable Vodacom to increase access to 4G capacity at more favourable terms.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is an important agreement in an environment where spectrum remains a key capacity constraint for all networks,\u201d Vodacom said.<\/p>\n
The agreement is using Rain\u2019s 1,800MHz and 2,600MHz spectrum bands to enhance the capacity and performance of Vodacom\u2019s network.<\/p>\n
The lease agreement with Vodacom will also help Rain to fast-track its network roll-out and make it more affordable.<\/p>\n
The agreement initially envisaged<\/strong><\/a> that Rain would\u00a0 have at least 500 sites active on Vodacom\u2019s infrastructure and facilities by March 2017, 2,000 by the end of 2017, and 5,000 by 2020.<\/p>\n The new agreement with Vodacom means that Rain will have access to Vodacom\u2019s full network, which sets it up for a full national roll-out.<\/p>\n Vodacom has concluded a deal with Rain to extend its roaming and facilities leasing agreements to virtually all Vodacom sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":273557,"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":[35,43716,41],"class_list":["post-337534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-headline","tag-rain","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337534"}],"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=337534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337536,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337534\/revisions\/337536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read: The amazing story behind Rain and its partnership with Vodacom<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"