Two companies in the country's tiny capital Maseru are
now using one of the world's first commercial 5G networks on the long-awaited 3.5 GHz spectrum.
The network in Lesotho, set up by local Vodafone affiliate Vodacom,
delivers speeds of up to 700 megabits per second, allowing movies to be downloaded in seconds and could in future provide safe technology for driverless cars.
"It is a bit of a testbed for us," Andries Delport, Vodacom's chief technology officer, told AFP on Friday after the service was launched.
"With 5G, there is a lot of hype based on future use. It is transformative... it allows us to start talking about driverless cars, and robots and machines in factories," he said.
"I can tell you, the Lesotho people are super-proud of this."
Just 530 employees at the head offices of the Central Bank of Lesotho and the Letseng Diamond Mining company in Maseru currently enjoy the 5G speeds, but Vodacom plans to extend the scheme.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-09-lesotho-emerges-testbed-5g-revolution.html#jCp
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