{"id":69029,"date":"2014-09-27T14:26:20","date_gmt":"2014-09-27T12:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=69029"},"modified":"2014-09-27T14:27:22","modified_gmt":"2014-09-27T12:27:22","slug":"vodacom-hits-270mbps-with-4g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/69029-vodacom-hits-270mbps-with-4g","title":{"rendered":"Vodacom hits 270Mbps with 4G"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vodacom has performed a live demonstration of Long Term Evolution (LTE) Advanced technology on its cellular network at the Dome in Vodacom World, Midrand on 23 September 2014.<\/p>\n<p>While operators around the world have taken to calling LTE and other technologies 4G, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has told MyBroadband that it <a title=\"It\u2019s official: LTE, WiMax and HSPA+ not 4G\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/30124-it\u2019s-official-lte-wimax-and-hspa-not-4g.html\">only considers IMT-Advanced technologies \u201c4G\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>IMT-Advanced includes LTE Advanced, but not LTE.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to journalists at the demonstration, executive head for Vodacom&#8217;s engineering team Graham Cusack said that the LTE Advanced service is offered on Vodacom\u2019s actual network. It is not just a laboratory demonstration, Cusack\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>The Vodacom LTE Advanced network uses carrier aggregation, two 20 Megahertz (MHz) channels in the highly sought-after 2,600MHz band.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We applied for temporary spectrum, we got it yesterday, and this morning at 04:30 4G was live on the Vodacom network,\u201d said Vodacom CTO Andries Delport.<\/p>\n<p>Some high-end handsets already support the technology, including the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Note 4. Vodacom performed a number of Ookla speed tests on a Huawei Ascend Mate, and managed to achieve a download speed of\u00a0269.94Mbps and an upload speed of 39.90Mbps.<\/p>\n<p>The Ookla speed test shown below was performed on a <a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/smartphones\/109246-samsung-galaxy-note-4-confirmed-for-south-africa.html\">Samsung Galaxy Note 4<\/a> smartphone.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_110446\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110446\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110446\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Vodacom-LTE-Advanced-speed-test-result.jpg\" alt=\"Vodacom LTE Advanced speed test result\" width=\"600\" height=\"719\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-110446\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vodacom LTE Advanced speed test result<\/p><\/div>\n<p id=\"related\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cellular\/110458-vodacom-breaks-200mbps-with-4g.html\"><em><strong>Article courtesy of MyBroadband<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps4\/69001-playstation-4-free-games-and-plus-subscription.html\">PlayStation 4 \u2013 free games and PS Plus weekend<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/68989-steam-breaks-100-million-mark-gets-discovery-update.html\">Steam breaks 100 million mark, gets Discovery update<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/68985-activision-takes-on-a-panamanian-dictator.html\">Activision takes on a Panamanian dictator<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actual 4G technology has been demonstrated in South Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":43096,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8812],"tags":[12985,21,5890,817],"class_list":["post-69029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broadband","tag-4g","tag-headline","tag-lte","tag-vodacom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69031,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69029\/revisions\/69031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}