Grace Cofie
The Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC) is set to commence the second trial of 5G in Nigeria.
According to the commission, the trial is scheduled to hold on Thursday in order to validate the national policy on the digital economy.
The trial would be conducted by Airtel Networks Limited and its original Equipment Manufacturer on Thursday. The first trial was conducted by MTN Nigeria Communications.
In its ‘Draft Consultation Document for Deployment of Fifth Generation (5G) Mobile Technology in Nigeria’, the NCC disclosed that six locations across the nation were selected for this trial.
The location includes, Abuja, Calabar, Lagos, Kano, Abeokuta, and Ibadan.
The key parameters, according to the NCC, includes: 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.) and; Health and safety (EMF radiation level).
During the first trial, the NCC disclosed that a 2GB movie was downloaded within 17 secs on 5G (using 26GHz) and 5 minutes on 4G network (using 3.5GHz) with a maximum download throughput of 1.7Gbps and 70Mbps respectively in Abuja.
