Rain and Huawei launch standalone 5G community

Rain, South Africa’s data-only cell community, launched its first standalone 5G community within the nation.

Powered by Huawei, that is the primary industrial standalone 5G community in Africa, and amongst just a few networks of its form globally.

Rain’s standalone 5G is at present obtainable in Cape City overlaying areas together with Sea Level in Cape City, Claremont, Goodwood, Bellville, Durbanville, and Cape City Metropolis Centre.

The newly launched standalone 5G community is constructed on Rain’s personal websites. This permits Rain to considerably improve its fastened wi-fi broadband (FWA) service expertise within the lined areas.

“Standalone 5G will additional enhance 5G community efficiency with elevated uplink fee, decrease latency, and improved reliability, ushering in high-end cloud VR and cloud gaming companies, extra diversified enterprise and residential broadband companies,” stated Rain Chief Advertising and marketing Officer Khaya Dlanga.

As the final word type of 5G networks, standalone 5G helps superior network-slicing capabilities and cell edge computing (MEC), permitting Rain to discover new concepts and customised companies primarily based on ultra-low latency and far larger capability with standalone 5G, realised by Huawei’s Converged Core Resolution and Huge MIMO applied sciences.

“Standalone 5G will display how 5G is highly effective in realising South Africa’s 4IR future. Powered by Huawei’s international main 5G options, our Standalone 5G will allow the business’s digital transformation sooner or later, resembling sensible healthcare, sensible ports, sensible mining and sensible manufacturing in South Africa.”

“We’ll work with the reliable strategic companion to additional develop our 5G networks and convey one of the best service and expertise to our prospects,” Dlanga added.

This text was first printed by MyBroadband.

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