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Chinese company Huawei Technologies in conjunction with Namibia's MTC have launched
the 4.5G demo for the first time ever in Africa. The launch of 4G advanced and
4.5G live demo, attended by President Hage Geingob and several ministers, was
held in the capital Windhoek. Speaking during the launch, Huawei strategic
director Eliz Liu said the 4.5G works three times faster than the 4G that was
launched in 2012. According to Liu, the 4.5G has shown that it works fast at
8.2 MB per second. She also pledged Huawei's support of the Harambee Prosperity
Plan that was launched by Geingob last week to speed up implementation of
projects.
"We
voluntarily want to be part of the Harambee Prosperity Plan," she told the
guests among them Geingob. "We want to contribute to this society."
4.5G is an extension to 4G LTE and is an emerging technology being
worked upon by Ericsson, Nokia, Qualcomm Huawei and a host of other network
service providers. 4.5G or License Assisted Access (LAA) works by aggregating
licensed and unlicensed (5 Ghz) LTE frequency bands, using massive MIMO and
256-QAM modulation (LTE uses 64-QAM usually). 4.5G is said to offer download
speeds of upto 300Mb/s and is expected to play a big role in Internet of Things
(IoT).
Officially
launching the 4.5G and the LTE Advanced technologies, Geingob said he
appreciated Huawei's contribution to Namibia's information and technology
sector. "Without high-tech, one cannot catch up with the world,"
Geingob said. MTC spokesperson Tim Ekandjo said they were excited about the
partnership and the launch of the 4.5G. "Huawei has been our technical
suppliers for the past eight years," Ekandjo said. He also said Huawei is
one of the best tech equipment suppliers in the world.
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