Three companies currently provide 5G services in South Africa: Rain, Vodacom, and MTN . In September 2019, Rain, South Africa’s data-only mobile operator, launched the country’s first commercial 5G network in parts of Johannesburg and Tshwane.7 Eyl 2021
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Vodacom launched its commercial 5G network in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Pretoria in May 2020. And in June 2020, MTN launched the 5G technology in 100 sites across Johannesburg, Cape Town, Bloemfontein, and Port Elizabeth.7 Eyl 2021
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MTN SA launched 5G in June 2020 with 150 sites across several spectrum bands in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pretoria, Durban, Bloemfontein, Centurion, Port Elizabeth and a few towns. MTN has revealed plans to scale up to more than 1000 sites upon allocation of 3.5GHz spectrum.
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Seven cities were involved in the initial rollout of 5G including London, Glasgow and Manchester and currently, its 5G service is live in 44 locations including Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Gatwick, Lancaster, Liverpool, Plymouth, Stoke-on-Trent and Wolverhampton .
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Nigeria will therefore join Kenya and South Africa as the only three countries to have deployed commercial 5G services on the continent.
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5G is also available on Dynamic Spectrum Sharing (DSS) in the Sandon CBD (Gauteng) and in Port Elizabeth (Eastern Cape).
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MTN, Africa’s largest mobile network operator, announced the launch of its 5G network in South Africa, with the initial deployment of 100 5G sites . The company has deployed 58 5G sites in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Bloemfontein using the 3.5 GHz band.
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