Nigeria’s newest telecom operator, MAFAB Communications, has launched its 5G network providers for Nigerians. The launch ceremony happened in Abuja on Tuesday January 24 and in Lagos on Thursday January 26, 2023. This announcement comes 5 months after MTN launched its 5G network in August 2022 and MAFAB was given a five-month extension for its 5G network rollout by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).
The occasion additionally doubled as the revealing occasion of its new brand and model identify: Mcom. It’s vital to notice that these occasions weren’t the business launch as potential customers can’t entry or expertise MCom’s 5G providers but. The firm shared that the date for its business launch shall be disclosed within the close to future.
“As the second operator to launch 5G in Nigeria, Mcom expects more coverage for Nigerians and acceleration of broadband services,” Dr. Musbahu Bashir, chairman and founding father of MAFAB, mentioned on the occasion in Lagos.
He shared that the deployment will start in six cities: Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Enugu, Kano, and Kaduna. The timeline for the deployment in different cities shall be shared later.
The governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, represented by the state’s commissioner for science and know-how, Hakeem Fahm, applauded MAFAB for the 5G launch.
“I am now very much optimistic that we will achieve resounding success because of the opportunity that MAFAB 5G network represents,” Sanwo-Olu mentioned.
MAFAB Communications Limited was registered on July 8, 2020, based on the corporate’s web site and TechCabal’s findings on the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) website. It claims to present and function native Interconnect and International provider providers; there’s no details about shoppers on its web site.
The firm is led by Musbahu Muhammad Bashir, the chairman of the Althani Group, an Abuja-based holding firm that oversees a bunch of corporations, together with Eman Homes & Estate, Althani Investment Limited, Salam Takaful Insurance, and MAFAB Communications.
5G is all about knowledge
During the launch occasion, Adebayo Onigbanjo, the company communications supervisor, defined that the corporate, which wouldn’t offer any 2G, 3G, or 4G providers, would concentrate on offering knowledge beginning with the fastened wi-fi entry market. A technique that correlates with the truth that client spending on knowledge will quickly outstrip that of voice service.
To obtain this roll-out, the corporate shared that it’ll depend on partnering and sharing present telecom infrastructure to realize nationwide protection, though it didn’t disclose how a lot funding it has made in bodily infrastructure. For its voice service, Mcom would leverage the nationwide roaming technique to make sure voice providers throughout cities.
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