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<\/a><\/p>\nMTN South Africa announced that its commercial 5G services have been launched across 100 network towers in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth and other smaller towns.<\/p>\n
<\/span>Available 5G Data Plans On MTN South Africa<\/h2>\nAvailable 5G data plans on MTN South Africa includesix (6) bundle plans, as well as an exclusive Unlimited Data plan that has a 200GB monthly cap. The unlimited plan is valid only until 31 July 2020 though:<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n![\"MTN](\"https:\/\/mobilityarena.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/MTN-logo.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
<\/a><\/p>\nFrequencies Deployed For MTN 5G Network In South Africa<\/h2>\n
MTN 5G network in South Africa is deployed on four (4) different 5G frequency bands, namely: 3.5GHz, 2100MHz, 700MHz,and 28GHz. The company provided the following breakdown:<\/p>\n
\n- 3.5GHz at 58 sites:<\/strong>\u00a0This is the ideal spectrum band for 5G, known as the \u201cgolden band\u201d, offering both faster speeds and low latencies. MTN has deployed sites in the 3.5GHz band in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Bloemfontein.<\/li>\n
- 2.1GHz and 1.8GHz at 35 sites:<\/strong>\u00a0MTN is re-farming some 4G spectrum to allow it to run 4G and 5G spectrum, at the same time, in the same band. This allows for easier migration of network technology from LTE to 5G. It also allows us to deploy 5G using existing spectrum assets in the absence of additional high-demand spectrum. MTN has deployed 5G sites at 2.1GHz in Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth.<\/li>\n
- 700MHz at five sites:<\/strong>\u00a0This is an excellent band for extensive coverage, making it ideal for use for urban indoor settings and for small towns and rural coverage due to the low-band frequency propagation. Small towns now covered by MTN 5G using 700MHz include Port Alfred, Hopetown, Virginia, Queenstown and Tsantsabane.<\/li>\n
- 28GHz at three sites:<\/strong>\u00a0This high-frequency bandwidth offers great speeds, making this ideal for fixed-wireless 5G connectivity. This solution has been deployed in Hatfield (Pretoria), Edenvale and Durban.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
Available 5G Devices On MTN South Africa<\/h2>\n![\"smartphones](\"https:\/\/mobilityarena.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/smartphones-on-mtn-5g-network-in-South-africa.jpg\" "\\"\\"")
<\/a>Available smartphones on MTN 5G network in South Africa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nMTN South Africa is launching its 5G service with a small collection of 5G-ready smartphones. They include:<\/p>\n
\n- Huawei P40 Pro<\/a><\/li>\n
- Huawei P40<\/li>\n
- LG Velvet 5G<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
These 5G smartphones are available from July 1, 2020. 5G Wi-Fi routers are also available from the same day. MTN South Africa says it will continually expand its 5G network to eventually cover the whole country.<\/p>\n
Besides the MTN 5G network in South Africa, MTN has conducted 5G demos and trials in Nigeria and will likely be the first 5G network to be launched in the country. During the MTN Nigeria 5G demos in November 2019, speeds of up to 2Gbps were reached. Of course, real life 5G speeds will not be anything close to that when the network finally goes life. However, 5G in Nigeria<\/a> is still some way in the future, as the Nigerian Communications Commission is yet to issue licenses.<\/p>\nIn Uganda, MTN (in partnership with Chinese telecoms equipment manufacturer ZTE) also trialed East Africa’s first 5G network. The 5G demonstrations happened in January 2020. The trial was consucted on the 60Mhz spectrum and clocked speeds of up to 1.5Gbps.<\/p>\n
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MTN 5G network in South Africa is deployed on four (4) different 5G frequency bands, namely: 3.5GHz, 2100MHz, 700MHz,and 28GHz. The company provided the following breakdown:<\/p>\n MTN South Africa is launching its 5G service with a small collection of 5G-ready smartphones. They include:<\/p>\n These 5G smartphones are available from July 1, 2020. 5G Wi-Fi routers are also available from the same day. MTN South Africa says it will continually expand its 5G network to eventually cover the whole country.<\/p>\n Besides the MTN 5G network in South Africa, MTN has conducted 5G demos and trials in Nigeria and will likely be the first 5G network to be launched in the country. During the MTN Nigeria 5G demos in November 2019, speeds of up to 2Gbps were reached. Of course, real life 5G speeds will not be anything close to that when the network finally goes life. However, 5G in Nigeria<\/a> is still some way in the future, as the Nigerian Communications Commission is yet to issue licenses.<\/p>\n In Uganda, MTN (in partnership with Chinese telecoms equipment manufacturer ZTE) also trialed East Africa’s first 5G network. The 5G demonstrations happened in January 2020. The trial was consucted on the 60Mhz spectrum and clocked speeds of up to 1.5Gbps.<\/p>\n Today, 30th of June 2020, MTN 5G network in South Africa went live, offering super-fast mobile broadband speeds and improved network capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[37,975],"class_list":["post-122991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-useful-info","tag-mtn","tag-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobility.com.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobility.com.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobility.com.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobility.com.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobility.com.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mobility.com.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":380288,"href":"https:\/\/mobility.com.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122991\/revisions\/380288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobility.com.ng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mobility.com.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobility.com.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mobility.com.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nFrequencies Deployed For MTN 5G Network In South Africa<\/h2>\n
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Available 5G Devices On MTN South Africa<\/h2>\n
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