Monday, October 31, 2022

China's Huawei Launches 5G Networks in South Africa and Kenya

 Reuters published on 27 October 2022 an article titled "South Africa's Telkom Launches 5G Network with Huawei."  Telcom launched its 5G high-speed internet network using Huawei technology to compete with larger Vodacom and MTN and smaller Rain in the 5G race.  

Business Daily published on 28 October 2022 an article titled "Safaricom 5G Users to Pay Higher Mobile Data Tariffs."  Kenya's Safaricom has become the first telecommunications company in East Africa to commercially launch 5G high-speed internet service with infrastructure built by China's Huawei and Finland's Nokia.