Rain in Roaming Deal with Vodacom For News Network Service

Thursday, Rain confirmed their signing deal with telecom giant Vodacom to launch a national 4G mobile service called Rain Mobile. The network service will have a voice service.

Rain said it aims to become a more full-service telecommunications provider. Previously Rain services only included data services for smartphones and wireless services.

Speaking to TechCentral, the telecom company said its building its own network infrastructure, working with Vodacom to handle “coverage gaps” mainly outside South Africa’s cities and towns and that in its product development will provide eSIM.

In an interview with TechCentral, Rain spokesperson said, “As you will remember, last year we participated in the spectrum auction with the specific goal of acquiring sub-1GHz spectrum, which would allow us to establish a national coverage layer.”

“We successfully obtained 20MHz of 700MHz spectrum, which we are now using to roll out our 700MHz network on top of our existing network,” the spokeswoman continued.

“However, in certain regions of the country, the deployment of our network has been delayed due to the conversion of TV from analogue to digital. To address these coverage gaps, we have entered into a roaming agreement with Vodacom. This enables us to provide coverage in these areas where our network is yet to be deployed.”

Introducing RainOne

Rain said,“Customers with rainOne will be able to seamlessly port their existing number and use Rain Mobile as their primary Sim, with national 4G mobile coverage.”

Rain CEO, Brandon Leigh said in a statement, “The convergence of a home and mobile voice and data offerings in one affordable plan is an innovation we are confident will appeal to South Africans. We recognise that our customers have family members, so with rainOne we are catering not only for their need to access the internet from home, but also outside on their mobile devices.”

RainOne offers an unlimited 5G home Wi-Fi package and 4G service plus free monthly calls and data for two phones, a 4G services for two mobile phones each with 2GB of data and 60 minutes of voice calls for R559 per month.