Yemisi Izuora
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has announced plans to embark on the second trial of 5G in Nigeria.
In the Agency’s ‘Draft Consultation Document for Deployment of Fifth Generation (5G) Mobile Technology in Nigeria’, issued on Monday, November 29, the NCC disclosed that six locations across the nation have been carefully selected for the exercise.
It disclosed that the trial which is scheduled to hold on Thursday is necessary in order to validate the national policy on 5G for the digital economy, adding that the supervised trial would be conducted by Airtel Networks Limited and its Original Equipment Manufacturer on Thursday.
According to the NCC, the key parameters it was looking out for included: Throughput, latency and jitter measurements; Co-channel interference impact on QoS; Handover performance between access points (as applicable); Type/models of 5G terminals used for the test; Types of services (voice, data, video, etc.) as well as; Health and safety (EMF radiation level).
