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Ethio Telecom to Pilot 5G Network in Ethiopia

Ethio-Telecom-logoEthio Telecom is ready to pilot 5th generation (5G) network for the first time in Ethiopia, with its launch expected some time next week. The network is expected to be available on hotspot areas in Addis Ababa, including the area around Ethio Telecom's Head Office and the premises of Bole International Airport.

Ethiopia's state-owned telecom giant will use Huawei's technology for the services, it has been learned. Ethio Telecom has been said to have been preparing for the 5G launch over the last two months.

The 5G technology is expected to be introduced to help facilitate data traffic in dense urban networks, being implemented on the existing 4G infrastructure. The move is set to make Ethiopa an early adopter of 5G network in Africa.

“Ethio Telecom is undergoing network infrastructure and system enhancements to pilot 5G networks soon and we’ve made some of our networks ready for 5G,” Frehiwot Tamiru, the company's CEO, had said a few months back, speaking on the occassion of Ethio Teleocm's expansion plans.

It is to be recalled that Ethio Telecom built an advnaced modular data center at a cost of $3.5 million in May this year, noting that it will take two and a half months to deploy.

5G network service is a technology created to deliver peak data speed. First deployed by Verizon in 2018, Kenya and South Africa are the only countries that have deployed the technology in Africa so far. 

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Source: Capital Ethiopia