Nigeria’s latest telecom operator, Mcom, launches its 5G community

Nigeria’s newest telecom operator, MAFAB Communications, has launched its 5G community companies for Nigerians. The launch ceremony occurred in Abuja on Tuesday January 24 and in Lagos on Thursday January 26, 2023.  This announcement comes 5 months after MTN launched its 5G community in August 2022 and MAFAB was given a five-month extension for its 5G community rollout by the Nigerian Communications Fee (NCC).

The occasion additionally doubled as the disclosing occasion of its new emblem and model title: Mcom. It’s necessary to notice that these occasions weren’t the industrial launch as potential customers can not entry or expertise MCom’s 5G companies but. The corporate shared that the date for its industrial launch will probably be disclosed within the close to future.

“Because the second operator to launch 5G in Nigeria, Mcom expects extra protection for Nigerians and acceleration of broadband companies,” Dr. Musbahu Bashir, chairman and founding father of  MAFAB, mentioned on the occasion in Lagos.

He shared that the deployment will begin in six cities: Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Enugu, Kano, and Kaduna. The timeline for the deployment in different cities will probably be shared later.

The governor of Lagos state, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, represented by the state’s commissioner for science and expertise, Hakeem Fahm, applauded MAFAB for the 5G launch.

“I’m now very a lot optimistic that we are going to obtain resounding success due to the alternative that MAFAB 5G community represents,” Sanwo-Olu mentioned. 

MAFAB Communications Restricted was registered on July 8, 2020, in response to the company’s website and TechCabal’s findings on the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) site.   It claims to present and function native Interconnect and Worldwide service companies; there’s no details about purchasers on its web site.

The corporate is led by Musbahu Muhammad Bashir, the chairman of the Althani Group, an Abuja-based holding firm that oversees a bunch of firms, together with Eman Houses & Property, Althani Funding Restricted, Salam Takaful Insurance coverage, and MAFAB Communications.

5G is all about information

Throughout the launch occasion, Adebayo Onigbanjo, the company communications supervisor, defined that the corporate, which wouldn’t offer any 2G, 3G, or 4G companies, would concentrate on offering information beginning with the fastened wi-fi entry market. A method that correlates with the truth that client spending on information will quickly outstrip that of voice service. 

To realize this roll-out, the corporate shared that it’ll depend on partnering and sharing current telecom infrastructure to realize nationwide protection, though it didn’t disclose how a lot funding it has made in bodily infrastructure. For its voice service, Mcom would leverage the nationwide roaming technique to make sure voice companies throughout cities.