Orange has announced that its Botswana affiliate is the first on the African continent to offer 5G services. Orange Botswana launched 5G on November 11, 2022 with coverage in grater Gaborone and Francistown, offering 30% of the population with coverage. Orange said other Botswanan cities will follow in early 2023.
Orange Botswana has debuted new 5G Fixed Wireless Access (FWA) and mobile data bundles aimed at residential customers and small and medium enterprises, it said in a statement. FWA starts at 15 megabits per second (Mbps) for prepaid and 20 Mbps for postpaid, it said, at rates starting at BWP 699 (US$53.80) per month, equivalent to about 10% of the average Botswanan’s monthly salary, according to statistics.
