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Unitel Signs Three-Year Huawei Deal on RAN, Other Services

Angola’s mobile market leader Unitel and development.’ Chu Xiaoxin, CEO of been committed to bringing cutting-edge
has signed a new three-year framework Huawei Angola, noted: ‘Since entering technologies and advanced solutions to
agreement with its long-term Chinese the Angolan market in 2002, Huawei has Angolan society.’
vendor partner Huawei incorporating ‘a
complete series solution’ including Radio
Access Network (RAN), transmission
network and other aspects such as
Customer Experience Management (CEM)
and residential solutions. Unitel’s press
release says that via the partnership it will
’continuously increase network capacity and
coverage, incubate 5G innovation, provide
better services and enhance the optimal
user experience, while ushering in a new era
of green, low-carbon telecommunications.’
Unitel general manager Miguel Geraldes
added: ‘Unitel is committed to accelerating
the digitization of industry with leading ICT
providers to illuminate Angola’s industrial

T-Mobile US Launches Commercial Voice-Over-5G

including the Galaxy S22. T-Mobile’s 5G
SA network boasts nationwide coverage,
and the cellco’s latest press release
adds that with VoNR it can ‘keep devices
always connected to 5G and enable future
transformative applications that require
a seamless 5G connection,’ adding that
‘Standalone 5G removes the need for an
underlying 4G LTE network and 4G core, so
5G can reach its true potential.’ VoNR was
implemented on the T-Mobile network using
Ericsson solutions and underpinned by
Nokia’s radio and core technology. Fredrik
Jejdling, Head of Business Area Networks
at Ericsson, declared: ‘The commercial
launch of the VoNR service is another
important step in T-Mobile’s successful 5G
T-Mobile US has announced the launch of this year. VoNR – based on 5G Standalone deployment,’ while Tommi Uitto, President
commercial Voice-over-5G (Voice-over-New (5G SA) network technology – is initially of Nokia Mobile Networks, called the VoNR
Radio [VoNR]) in limited areas of Portland accessible on the Samsung Galaxy S21 5G deployment ‘a critical step forward for the
(Oregon) and Salt Lake City, with plans to smartphone, and will be useable on various new 5G voice ecosystem’.
expand the service to ‘many more areas’ other 5G smartphones later in the year,

Brisanet Acquires Huawei Antennas for 5G Pilot

Brazilian regional ISP Brisanet has TeleGeography notes that the Ceara-based the Northeast and Midwest, plus a 50MHz
confirmed that it has invested BRL230 company acquired a trio of 5G concessions block of 2.3GHz spectrum covering the
million (USD44.7 million) in Huawei mobile in last year’s multi-band spectrum auction: Northeast.
equipment ahead of its planned 5G pilot. a pair of 80MHz 3.5GHz licenses covering
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