Chief Executive Officer of MTN Ghana, Selorm Adadevoh told the media, “Almost every 10 years, there is a new technology. 4G was launched in 2016 so ideally, 5G should be expected somewhere around 2026 but will have to be rollout around 2023 as Covid-19 has accelerated digitalisation.”

He further revealed that Mr. Adadevoh in the last 25 years, MTN Ghana has invested over $6 billion in infrastructure with 2021 seeing the highest investment in a year of over $200 million.

Earlier this month, MTN Group announced its partnership with Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments technology company. This partnership will allow businesses integrating Flutterwave in African nations such as Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Rwanda, Uganda and Zambia to receive payments through MTN’s MoMo.

In this regard, Olugbenga ‘GB’ Agboola, CEO and founder of Flutterwave told the media, “Africa has one of the highest growth rates for mobile money adoption and e-commerce in the world. It makes sense that we help provide a seamless payment method to support and ensure African businesses reap the full benefits of the e-commerce boom in the region.

“Our goal has always been to grow a new wave of prosperity in Africa by creating more avenues for businesses in Africa to accept payments. With this partnership, we can achieve this while creating endless possibilities for our customers.”

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The two organisations exhibited the 5G use cases on the 5G SA network during a demonstration at the Experience the Future Together event held in Kampala, the capital city of Uganda.

The network attained speeds of 1.494Gbps through 60Mhz spectrum, thereby enabling it to assist tools such as gigabit even in the absence of cloud XR, fibre connection, ultra-HD live telecast, remote surgery and autonomous driving.

Utilising ZTE’s end-to-end 5G apparatus also featuring common core, the network accomplished the overall separation of the signalling plane and the data plane without depending on the prevalent LTE core network EPC.

This network can also be improvised to facilitate other 5G tools like uRLLC and mMTC.

Bill Yi, vice president at ZTE said that the organisation is looking forward to working with MTN on emerging technologies.

He indicated that the Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment giant has been consistently endeavouring to upgrade its 5G prowess and has emerged as a vital provider of end-to-end services in the ICT sector worldwide.

The alliance is an extension of the already existing agreement between ZTE and MTN that was formed over a decade ago in 2009 in the spheres of core network, transmission, wireless, terminals, O&M services and energy infrastructure.

ZTE has so far been involved in 11 outlets of MTN. And, earlier this month, it teamed up with China Telecom to install China’s first remote apparatus enabled by the latest 5G technology for detecting coronavirus.

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A majority of these subscribers are expected to be from Saudi Arabia and the UAE. According to the Ericsson Mobility Report MEA, almost 90 percent of the 60 million 5G subscriptions in the Middle East and African region are expected to be for mobile broadband.

While Saudi Arabia was the first country in the Middle East to develop 5G infrastructure, many countries in the region and also in Africa are developing infrastructure in their country to deploy 5G technology.

Wojciech Bajda, the head of Ericsson GCC believes 5G will prove to be revolutionary for sectors such as oil and gas. According to him, 5G technology will help oil and gas companies to control their pipeline network more efficiently and provide security in remote areas with the help of drones.

Ericsson Middle East and Africa President, Fadi Pharaon told the media that, “The deployment of 5G networks will allow operators to develop new use cases, applications, services and revenue streams from IoT and industrial applications, sparking an unprecedented wave of innovation.”

He added, “We offer our customers an expanded and adaptable 5G platform, making it easier for them to rollout 5G and speed up network coverage. Our end to end Radio and Core 5G platform enhance network flexibility for enabling new 5G use cases, lowering latency, and lowering total cost of ownership.”

Recently, Saudi Arabia’s Zain Group deployed Middle East’s largest 5G network with 2,000 towers across 20 cities. The telecom company will gradually expand to 2,600 towers across 26 Saudi cities by the end of 2019.

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