Telecom Lead Africa: RCS-Communication, a service provider in South Sudan, has selected Airspan Networks, for deploying 4G WiMAX.
The first phase of the implementation started in Juba, the capital of the Republic of South Sudan.
“The Airspan network shows excellent results in terms of coverage and enables us to serve our clients in areas where we were previously unable to reach them on our terrestrial network,” said Philip Gerber, RCS-Communication Country Manager for South Sudan.
RCS-Communication invested to upgrade its current WiMAX network to the latest generation technology in readiness for further network improvements and specific service offerings.
Flippie Odendal, RCS-Communication Managing Director for South Sudan, said: “Airspan was selected as our vendor because we believe their solution offers us the best scalability and widest choice of future options.”
Air4G is a dual platform 4G base station enabling operators to run either LTE or WiMAX or both concurrently. This ability allows for a seamless migration to LTE when and where the operator is ready.
In addition to the macro base stations and other related products and services Airspan is supplying RCS with a comprehensive network management system called Netspan, which will manage any LTE network when deployed if and when RCS decides to activate that.
Amit Ancikovsky, president of Products and Sales for Airspan, said: “Airspan offers African service providers an unparalleled combination of personal customer service with a range of cost-effective products which enable a quick, scalable, 4G network deployment.”
Airspan products include Pico, Micro and Macro base stations, a wide variety of user devices, and advanced core network products, providing 4G LTE and WiMAX connectivity solutions operating in the 150 MHz up to 5.9 GHz bands.
