5G network will become operational soon
Fifth-Generation (5G) network will soon be deployed and become operational as winners of licenses will be handed the spectrum between now and the next six months.
Aliyu Usman, Head, Space Services, NCC disclosed this at a dedicated panel session of 2022 AfricaNXT Technology Conference themed “Moving Forward Steadily: Socio-Economic Significance of Deployment of 5G Services,” and held in Lagos recently.
Usman said the license confers 10-year tenure and a minimum of five sites for the licensees to deploy.
According to him, the commission would make the 5G spectrum available to the winners of the license within six months, which commenced from February 24, 2022, the deadline for the payment of the license fees.
He also disclosed that NCC is working with the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) to develop a risk management framework, which would see that the commission creates a market for ethical workers.
During the panel discussion, the NCC team espoused further the advantages of the 5G network. Babagana Digima, Team Lead, Nigeria Office for Developing Indigenous Telecoms Sector (NODITS), NCC, reiterated the fact that 5G will enhance mobile broadband, boost its offering by a 200-fold increase in mobile speed.
Digima said further that the network will accelerate both broadband and narrowband Internet speeds, which are currently, low in the country.
Explaining why NCC was not too stringent on earlier rollout, he said the NCC is aware and putting in place what is required to effectively explore the commercial benefits the service would offer. He said already, about one billion devices that would support the 5G network would be made available in 2022.
Aliyu Usman, Head, Space Services, NCC, shed more light on the advantages of the 5G network. He said the 5G network is smarter than the previous generations of technologies and would impact several sectors of the economy significantly. According to him, agriculture, education, security, and health sectors would benefit the most from the network. He, therefore, called on, startups and the technology ecosystem to use 5G to create more innovations.
According to him, vulnerability test and security design architecture for the technology would also feature in the risk management framework.
He disclosed that telecoms sector CSIRT in the framework would also be instituted to check if there are threats to the network.
Furthermore, Tony Ikemefuna, Head, Fixed Network and Converged Services said 5G technology offers an extremely low latency rate, which is the delay between the sending and receiving of information. He said from 200 milliseconds for 4G, “we go down to 1 millisecond (1ms) with 5G. The network is even faster than the brain, which processes information at 10 milliseconds.”
According to him, everyone will benefits from 5G, including the older people. He stressed that with the technology; there would be fibre-like connectivity, which will usher in a new wave of creativity in the country.
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