The companies that power South Africa’s mobile networks

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Four global telecoms giants supply much of the radio equipment needed to provide South Africans with mobile connectivity. Here is how they contribute to the country’s cellular networks.

Deploying equipment from several vendors lowers a network’s reliance on a single provider, avoiding the potential for a single point of failure.Finally, networks are not constricted by the limitation of one provider’s technologies.

The company installed four telephone exchanges in the country between 1896 and 1900 and sold portable field handsets to British soldiers during the Second Anglo-Boer War.It closed its sales office in the mid-1960s due to growing criticism of Apartheid and later stopped selling its products altogether.

The company is widely considered one of the world’s leading developers of 5G technology and has repeatedly achieved the top spot inIt is currently the only vendor that provides 5G equipment for Telkom and Rain’s 5G networks.You would be hard-pressed to find a South African who lived through the country’s first decade of mobile network connectivity and does not know Nokia.The Finnish company was founded in 1871 after its founders opened a second pulp mill near the town of Nokia.

Nokia acquired Siemens in 2013 after the two had initially formed a joint venture known as Nokia Siemens Networks in 2007.

 

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