This makes Etisalat Afghanistan the first provider in all of Central Asia to implement Open RAN.
Open call: Etisalat s test in Afghanistan is the first in central Asia.
UAE-based Etisalat is very much at home in Afghanistan, having provided mobile phone services in the country since 2007. In 2012, Etisalat launched Afghanistan s first 3G network.
Meanwhile mobile broadband has taken off in Afghanistan. In 2013, just 1% of Afghans could access broadband on smartphones, but by 2019 this had become 22%. With cheap 5G-capable devices aplenty on offer from China, mobile broadband starts looking like a good fit for Afghanistan.
So the two partners thinking goes, it s as promising a place as any to test whether Open RAN lives up to its potential in driving capital and operating expenditures down.
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