MTN South Africa teams up with Huawei to launch outdoor 5G trial

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MTN South Africa has partnered with Huawei to conduct the first 5G outdoor trial in Africa, reports BusinessTech. Using Huawei's recently-launched commercial 5G terminal in conjunction with an existing tower, MTN reached download speeds of 530Mbps and upload speeds of 79Mbps, along with a latency of 7ms - measured in an online speed test. The network allocated 100MHz of its high-frequency 28GHz spectrum to conduct the test and used Huawei's 5G outdoor terminal to deliver the connection to a Huawei Wi-Fi router. MTN said this is the first time they are demonstrating a complete end-to-end 5G network operating in a real-world environment. The connection was provided by a 5G radio set-up near the live demo site, and multiple devices were connected to the router and used to measure the speed delivered by the connection.