Fixed broadband wireless technology is well suited to the African continent due to the ever-increasing demand for connectivity to bridge the digital divide between urban and rural areas.
Africa is a diverse continent not only in its physical landscape, but also its political, economic, social, technological and environmental outlook, with each country and region having its own set of unique challenges and advantages.
The changes that have occurred in recent years with the introduction of 3G technology – now being followed by mobile broadband based on 4G/LTE – have been monumental.
There is a heightened consumer adoption of mobile devices as a direct response to the lack of adequate fixed infrastructure.
This has leveraged broadband wireless technology providers to play a much bigger role by relieving the pressure for backhauling data traffic from the mobile operators’ base stations to the rest of their network.
We are now starting to see huge demand for reliable internet platforms from various types of service providers wishing to replace legacy worldwide interoperability with microwave access (WiMAX) deployments.
This is paired with the requirement for high-capacity backhauling solutions from mobile operators.
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Source - IT News Africa