According to a banker with knowledge of the auction, when the new Ethiopian government decided two years ago to reverse its decades-old policy by opening the
“We expect to go into ecosystems such as health, education, agriculture, financial services and enabling SMEs using technology,” Ndegwa said. “The network brings an era of intelligent connectivity and will be a key driver in this strategy.”
Though enterprise applications are expected to take off before consumer adoption, the question for technology executives remains: How long will it be before 5G applications can be widely deployed?
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5G targets densely populated areas
5G is a term for an array of standards and technologies that have the potential of providing transmission speeds up to 20 times faster than 4G. 5G can support up to 1 million connected devices per square kilometre, 10 times that of 4G, Safaricom noted in the announcement of the rollout. This makes 5G suitable for densely populated areas, and for linking connected devices in manufacturing and supply-chain environments, it said.