MTN to launch 4G technology
Ugandans will beginning March access fourth generation (4G) technology - the latest and fastest technology. The development comes after MTN, announced last week that it had started installing Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, a ‘standard for wireless communication of high-speed data for mobile phones and data terminal’, popular known as 4G technology.
The installation is scheduled to take two months after which Ugandans will start using 4G services.
“LTE becomes the new standard determining the level of Technology development and offering substantially faster data speed than other technologies,” Mr Mazen Mroué, the MTN Uganda chief executive officer, said in a statement.
Mr Rami Farah, the company’s chief technical officer, said the telecom’s continuous investment and introduction of supreme technologies seek to provide customers with the best user experience across the country.
The launch of 4G will make MTN the first telecom to use such technology in Uganda. However, other telecoms are also moving in the same direction.
In 2012, Smiles Telecom tested 4G technology services in Kampala after acquiring a license from Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) allowing it to trade in this technology.
Mr Godfrey Mutabazi, the UCC executive director, told this newspaper at the weekend that both MTN and Smiles Telecom had been allocated spectrum space to host 4G technology.
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