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By Dawit Endeshaw<\/strong>
ADDIS ABABA: State-owned operator Ethio Telecom<\/a> launched a 5G mobile phone service on Monday in a key step ahead of competition from new entrants in an industry<\/a> that has been closed for international<\/a> players.
Next-generation 5G networks can provide data speeds at least 20 times faster than 4G and are seen as important for emerging technologies like self-driving cars and enable communication and interconnectivity<\/a> between smart devices.
Ethio Telecom Chief Executive Officer Frehiwot Tamru said the service will first be available in the capital Addis Ababa, before eventually spreading to other parts of the country.
\"The 5G service is launched in selected places in Addis Ababa,\" she said at a launch event. \"In the coming 12 months, we will have 150 5G sites in Addis Ababa and outside Addis Ababa.\"
Frehiwot did not say how much deploying the network would cost.
Ethio Telecom, which has 64 million subscribers across the nation, said in a separate statement that China's Huawei Technologies<\/a> was its equipment supplier for the network.
It recorded a 6.7% rise in revenues to 28 billion birr ($544.40 million) in its half year to Dec. 31.
The government launched a tendering process for selling a 40% stake in Ethio Telecom to private investors last June.
In March, the government said it had postponed the planned partial privatisation because of the prevailing economic environment domestically and globally.
In December, industry regulator Ethiopian Communication Authority said it had also suspended a tender process for a second telecommunications licence, which it said it would relaunch in the \"near future\".
The Horn of Africa country of about 110 million people sold only one of two full-service licences on offer in May 2021.
The winner of the first licence, a consortium led by Kenya's Safaricom SCOM.NR, Vodafone, and Japan's Sumitomo , is in the process of setting up its network ahead of a planned commercial launch due anytime now.
The licences are considered a big prize in the country's push to liberalise the economy, which had been one of the world's last major closed telecoms markets. ($1 = 51.4331 birr)
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埃塞俄比亚的国家电信推出5 g服务资本
下一代5 g网络可以提供数据的速度至少20倍4 g和被视为重要的自动驾驶汽车等新兴技术,使通信和智能设备之间的互连。
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由Dawit Endeshaw
亚的斯亚贝巴:国有运营商Ethio电信周一推出了5 g手机服务在未来的关键一步的来自新进入者的竞争行业已经关闭了国际的球员。
新一代5 g网络可以提供数据的速度至少20倍4 g和被视为重要的自动驾驶汽车等新兴技术,使沟通和互联互通智能设备之间。
Ethio电信首席执行官Frehiwot Tamru表示可用的服务将先在首都亚的斯亚贝巴,最终蔓延到其他地区。
“5 g服务在亚的斯亚贝巴推出了在选定的地方,”她在发布会上说。“在未来12个月,我们将有150 5 g网站在亚的斯亚贝巴和外部亚的斯亚贝巴。”
Frehiwot没有说多少部署网络成本。
Ethio电信,在全国拥有6400万用户,在一个单独的声明中表示,中国华为技术有限公司是其网络设备供应商。
它记录收入增长6.7%至280亿比尔(5.444亿美元)的一半年12月31日。
政府发起了一项投标过程Ethio电信40%的股权出售给私人投资者去年6月。
今年3月,政府表示,它已经推迟了计划部分私有化,因为主流的国内经济环境和全球。
去年12月,行业监管机构埃塞俄比亚通信管理局表示,它已暂停招标流程第二电信牌照,它表示将重新在“不久的将来”。
非洲之角的国家大约有1.1亿人仅售出两个2021年5月提供全方位服务牌照。
获胜者的第一个许可证,由肯尼亚的Safaricom SCOM牵头的一个财团。NR,沃达丰,日本住友的过程中建立其网络的商业计划发射由于现在随时。
执照被认为是一个大国家推动经济自由化的奖,世界上仅存的一个主要的电信市场关闭。(1美元= 51.4331活力)
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