--- title: Rain supercharges 5G with Huawei | daily.dev description: Rain South Africa and Huawei are jointly deploying a sub-1GHz massive MIMO 5G network across South Africa, scaling to thousands of commercial sites. This marks... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/rain-supercharges-5g-with-huawei-k2ttcf795 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Rain supercharges 5G with Huawei | daily.dev og:description: Rain South Africa and Huawei are jointly deploying a sub-1GHz massive MIMO 5G network across South Africa, scaling to thousands of commercial sites. This marks... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/rain-supercharges-5g-with-huawei-k2ttcf795 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/K2TtcF795.png og:image:alt: Rain supercharges 5G with Huawei og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Rain supercharges 5G with Huawei **[TechCentral](https://daily.dev/sources/techcentral)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Rain South Africa and Huawei are jointly deploying a sub-1GHz massive MIMO 5G network across South Africa, scaling to thousands of commercial sites. This marks the first large-scale commercial implementation of massive MIMO in sub-1GHz FDD spectrum in the country. Commercial results show uplink coverage improved by 5dB, downlink by 3dB, and network capacity increased up to three times versus conventional 4T4R equipment. The deployment combines low-band spectrum's wide-area coverage and indoor penetration with the capacity gains of massive MIMO, setting what both companies describe as a new global benchmark for 5G network evolution. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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