{"id":350546,"date":"2020-05-04T13:16:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T11:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=350546"},"modified":"2020-05-04T13:21:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T11:21:16","slug":"vodacom-launches-5g-mobile-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/350546-vodacom-launches-5g-mobile-network.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom launches 5G mobile network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom has launched Africa\u2019s first live 5G mobile network in three cities &#8211; Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town &#8211; with further rollouts planned to other parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>This network supports both mobile and fixed-wireless services, and is currently available on 20 live 5G sites &#8211; 18 of which are in Gauteng, and 2 in Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>There 20 sites are grouped into the following six clusters:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Midrand cluster<\/li>\n<li>Sandton cluster<\/li>\n<li>Menlyn cluster<\/li>\n<li>Centurion cluster<\/li>\n<li>Waterfall\/Sunninghill cluster<\/li>\n<li>Century City cluster<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cVodacom customers with 5G-enabled devices, and within a 5G coverage area, are now able to access one of the fastest and most sophisticated network connections in Africa,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom was recently assigned <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/349734-new-spectrum-has-arrived-here-is-what-mobile-operators-are-doing-with-it.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>temporary spectrum by ICASA<\/strong><\/a> for the duration of the national state of disaster.<\/p>\n<p>This spectrum included 50MHz in the 3.5GHz band, which has been used to fast-track its 5G launch.<\/p>\n<p>Vodacom and Liquid Telecom also concluded managed network services and national roaming agreements for a national 5G network in December 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The deployment of 5G will help Vodacom manage the 40% increase in mobile network traffic and the 250% increase in fixed traffic experienced during the COVID-19 lockdown.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Better performance<\/h3>\n<p>Vodacom said 5G offers many benefits over 4G, which include faster speeds, lower latency, better reliability, and more network capacity.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Faster speeds<\/strong> \u2013 In comparison to 4G, peak speeds on 5G will increase significantly. 5G will enable fibre-like speeds using the mobile network.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lower latency<\/strong> \u2013 In comparison to 4G where latencies are typically between 20-30 milliseconds, 5G can support latencies as low as 1 millisecond.<\/li>\n<li><strong>More network capacity<\/strong> &#8211; 5G uses spectrum in a much more efficient manner than 4G technology and is able to fit more data into the same amount of spectrum.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For those looking to use Vodacom\u2019s new 5G network, it currently supports the LG V50 5G smartphone and Huawei 5G CPE PRO router.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/349734-new-spectrum-has-arrived-here-is-what-mobile-operators-are-doing-with-it.html\">New spectrum has arrived \u2013 Here is what mobile operators are doing with it<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom has launched Africa\u2019s first live 5G mobile network in three cities \u2013 Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Cape Town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":348665,"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":[19420,35,41],"class_list":["post-350546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cellular","tag-5g","tag-headline","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350546"}],"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=350546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350550,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350546\/revisions\/350550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}