MTN Plans To Roll Out 4G LTE Services To Selected Nigerian States In July

MTN will be launching its 4G LTE Network
in selected
Nigerian cities in July. They are going to do
this by using the 800MHz
frequency they secured from CDMA network,
Visafone earlier this year.
At the end of
this year, they should have about 1,500
LTE sites transmitted with fibre
optics cables.
According to MTN CEO, Mr. Ferdinand
Moolman, Visafone subscribers
will port to the MTN network so they can
clean up their
frequency and launch the LTE services.
The chosen cities for this launch have been
selected as a result of
MTN’s analysis of data usage across the
country. They haven’t
disclosed what cities these are so we’ll just
have to wait and
see.
While it’s great that a top
Telecommunications mobile network is
releasing LTE services in
Nigeria, I’m just wondering why they didn’t
release this
earlier. Nigeria is definitely one of their
largest markets but it seems
they
Think quite low about us.
MTN already launched LTE services in other
countries like Cameroon Rwanda and Uganda
when Nigeria has more
MTN subscribers than the 3 countries put
together, they've finally
“decided” to launch here.
I know, maybe the whole friction & feud
with the NCC left MTN a bit
sore,
but still. I’m just wondering if this has to
do with the launch of Ntel
which launched their LTE service in April ,
and they don’t want to
be left behind. Other Networks will have to
join Soon to keep up with
the pace. This will probably mark the
evolution of 4g in Nigeria