rain, South Africa’s data-only mobile network launched its first Standalone 5G (SA 5G) network in the country that is powered by Huawei.
rain's Standalone 5G is currently available in Cape Town covering areas including Sea Point in Cape Town, Claremont, Goodwood, Bellville, Durbanville, and Cape Town City Centre.
The newly released SA 5G network are built on rain's own sites. This allows rain to significantly enhance its fixed wireless broadband (FWA) service experience in the covered areas.
As the ultimate form of 5G networks, SA 5G supports advanced network-slicing functions and mobile edge computing (MEC), allows for rain to explore new ideas and customized services based on ultra-low latency and much higher capacity with SA 5G, realized by Huawei’s Converged Core Solution and Massive MIMO technologies.
Khaya Dlanga, CMO, rain
Standalone 5G will further improve 5G network performance with increased the uplink rate, lower latency, and improved reliability, ushering in high-end cloud VR and cloud gaming services, more diversified enterprise and home broadband services.
