Comsol Networks

Company Overview

Comsol Networks is a South African telecommunications infrastructure provider. The company was founded in 1997.

Comsol 5G

Comsol's current point-to-multipoint network given the architecture of the network and spectrum allocation can already be referred to as a pre-5G network. With the advent of 5G standards based platforms and CPE's, Comsol's current role will be to overlay and / or migrate and extend it's current footprint to 5G with the spectrum assets Comsol has and the ecosystem partners Comsol is working with. Given the demand for appropriate spectrum to deliver 5G in South Africa, new models will emerge for Comsol as well to for example enabling MVNO's.

Holding the country's largest portion of 28 GHz spectrum (280 MHz), Comsol began trialling 5G fixed wireless access over the n257 (28 GHz) band in September 2018 and achieved peak data rates of 1.7 Gbps.

Comsol IoT

In November 2016 Comsol launched South Africa's first LPWAN IoT network using LoRa technology. South Africa uses the EU868 ISM band.