In partnership with Huawei, MTN Group has completed the first 5.5G network trial in Africa at its head Office in Johannesburg, South Africa.
This is four years after MTN South Africa debuted 5G on 100 initial sites in 2020.
According to reports, MTN South Africa’s 5G coverage has increased to 44 per cent of its coverage area since then. As with 4G, which got 4G LTE, a faster version, a few years after its launch, 5.5G is the more advanced version of 5G.
5.5G networks are said to be 10 times faster than 5G networks. According to Huawei, 5.5G technology promises 10 gigabytes per second headline connection speeds, ten times the number of IoT connections, and a factor of 10 reduction in latency.
When 5G was launched, it was said to have the potential for download speeds between 10 and 20 Gbps, or 100 times faster than 4G.
