MTN Nigeria PLC (MTN) announced that Nigeria has become the first country in West Africa to trial 5G technology and applications. The result of a strong collaboration between the Ministry of Communications Technology and Digital Economy, the Nigerian Communications Commission, MTN and Huawei (Abuja), ZTE (Calabar) and Ericsson (Lagos.) This immersive demo and experience will travel across three Nigerian cities to showcase the capabilities of 5G and its potential to enable economic growth, and social inclusion.

By working together, MTN and its partner — Huawei, were able to provide a glimpse into a range of 5G use cases and applications at a testing Lab designed to show proof-of-concept in Abuja. Standing alongside former Super Eagles captain, legendary Joseph Yobo, attendees got to match their skills against an artificial-intelligence powered goalie; immerse themselves in a high-speed, low-latency virtual reality gaming world; experience ultra-high-speed streaming and downloads on 5G devices; and engage in discourse with life-like holographic projections.

3D holographic communication has potential applications for education, medical imaging, video conferencing and gaming, and requires about four times as much data as a streaming 4K video. That means that 5G is best suited to support this kind of application on a mobile network and to enable its use. It also demonstrates how 5G has the potential to support key socio-economic objectives Nigeria has set for itself and to be a key contributor to the emergence of a fully digital economy.

MTN was honoured to host the Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami; the Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission, Senator Olabiyi Durojaiye, and the Chairman, the Executive Vice-Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Garba Danbatta; House of Representatives, Committee on Communications, Honourable Akeem Adeyemi at the launch event, without whom the demo would not have been possible.

Speaking shortly after taking a tour of the exhibition booths, Dr. Pantami underlined the potential of 5G for sustainable growth. “I believe as long as we are able to handle the potential challenges, the deployment of 5G is very critical to our economy, because of so many advantages of 5G, the issue of latency, speed and many more.”

Stressing the importance of an enabling regulatory framework and protecting telecommunications infrastructure, Dr. Pantami stated that on the instruction of the President, he has signed a draft Executive Order declaring telecommunications infrastructure ‘critical national infrastructure’ which has been forwarded to the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation for review. The Minister referred to the proposed Executive Order as a short-term measure, stressing that the President has instructed that proper legislation be facilitated to deal conclusively with threats to telecommunications infrastructure.

Highlighting the importance of partnerships, Ferdi Moolman, the Chief Executive Officer, MTN Nigeria said “Pushing boundaries is easier when your aspirations are supported by likeminded people. We are here today because of the support and guidance of the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy and the Nigerian Communications Commission who provided the trial spectrum used for this.”

Also, the key to this achievement is our equipment vendors who shared our vision, and whose capabilities were brought to bear in making the 5G trials across the country a reality. We are grateful for these partners, our customers and everyone who made it possible. Today’s success underlines the fact that we are good together.”

Mazen Mroue, Chief Operating Officer, MTN Nigeria stated that “In collaboration with our technical partners and the support of the Federal Government, we are proudly putting Nigeria on the 5G technology map. As we continue to invest in technology solutions to meet the wide needs of our customers, MTN will continue to strengthen these partnerships as we move to build our 5G capacity in future, guided by the standards and spectrum set by the Nigerian Communications Commission.”

In addition to the bandwidth increase for seamless video streaming or the next social application playground, 5G technology supports real-time, ultra-reliable communication between massive numbers of devices.

It creates vast possibilities in innovation and transformation, and will immensely improve quality of living, as users gain a better experience of services and technology in general — from financial services, healthcare, education, and even public service delivery to more leisurely purposes, such as video streaming services, gaming and even self-driving cars.

“5G offers tremendous benefits in terms of speed, latency (fewer delays), efficiency and security. This pilot offers a unique opportunity for us to explore use-cases and applications in Nigeria, and we are excited about its potential for our country and our company” noted Mohammed Rufai, Chief Technical Officer, MTN Nigeria.

Following the successful demonstration in Abuja, the 5G-demo train moves to Calabar and Lagos. In addition to which 5G trials will be run in four other cities across the country. The 5G trial will run for three months utilizing the trial spectrum allocated to MTN by the NCC.

SOURCE: https://brandspurng.com/2019/11/26/nigeria-becomes-first-in-west-africa-to-trial-5g-technology-powered-by-mtn/

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mtn is the biggest scammers in the world

what an achievement

This MTN wants to irradiate us, but we have melanin, unlike the whites. We shall overcome. Stop bleaching, if not this 5G will kill you without the melanin protection. Las las, na so all fair skinned people will just kpeme like that. RIP.

And how will dis help the people from the village

Comma di je la mammour tula ran. Hibi jafon buba bi, especially if gura djibo li MTN.

My MTN always first ... MTN I love U

Is this not madness? That even 4G is only available in 3 cities in the whole of Nigeria, now they want to test 5G. Shouldn't 4G be circulated first at least

Good one there..

Audio5g

Even our 4g takes 10mins to download 120mb porn






Abeg help me hang my Spectranet for dah place wey network dey

Just last month 4g was installed almost everywhere in my town and I'm really enjoying my 2gb for N500.

Mtn remains the best of all time

good innovation

Well, i won't say bad about it. We are still struggling with 4G and they are now bringing 5G.


Kudos to MTN.

Na so data go expensive again o

We don't have 4g so how come they want to jump to 5g which kind scam be dis?

With 4G, one month data finishes in two days. With 5G, it will finish in just 6hours. We are really finished. These people don't want us to achieve something in this world? They just want us to be streaming live videos anyhow, as in streaming away our lives!!!

mikezuruki:
Is this not madness? That even 4G is only available in 3 cities in the whole of Nigeria, now they want to test 5G. Shouldn't 4G be circulated first at least

Why is mtn not doing this trial in s/africa?
Because they (south Africans) known better, 5G is still in critical stages. The world is divided in the issue of its safety, while American FDA insists that it's safe, WHO thinks it can cause cancer.
SO I ask again why is mtn doing this pilot testing in Nigeria?









Modified : They said mtn is doing testing testing also in South Africa. I'm not surprised typical of Africans. Who did we wrong!

This one na as you dey load your credit, e go 5g dey go. Mtn wise

always mtn lol.

Timileyin1234:

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Finally MTN has done what Glo could not do even with their pride

Nice one MTN...

OoniOfIfe:
Audio 5G.

that's good but data will be exhausting on time

cnonyechi:
We don't have 4g so how come they want to jump to 5g which kind scam be dis?

na u n ur fone no get 4g...

Zooposki:
This MTN wants to irradiate us, but we have melanin, unlike the whites. We shall overcome. Stop bleaching, if not this 5G will kill you without the melanin protection. Las las, na so all fair skinned people will just kpeme like that. RIP.

I hope this is safe for us o!

Imagine what village people will use this thing for? Monitoring spirits in 3D.

They should try this 5G in South Africa first since MTN is championing it.
If everything is ok, they can come to Nigeria
They should not come and kill us with harmful RADIATION

Mtn 5g go be hell... money and data go dey zap from you anyhow



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