5G network will be deployed across Nigeria by January 2022 – FG
The Federal Government of Nigeria has announced that the Five Generation (5G) network will be deployed across the country by January 2022.
This was disclosed on Thursday by the Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, during a Town Hall Meeting in Maiduguri organized by the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture to address vandalism of power and telecommunications infrastructure.
Pantami added that, with the deployment of modern technology, the management of the over 50,000 telecommunication sites across the country has proven difficult to manually man.
He added that the outages were caused by fiber cuts, access denial, and theft leading to service disruption in the affected areas adding that the protection of the critical infrastructural facility was key to the nation’s security, economic vitality, public health, and safety.
