BAKU, Azerbaijan, Sept. 21
Trend:
The 5G technology may be available for public use in Kazakhstan by 2023, said Zhang Qingguo, General Director of Huawei Technologies Kazakhstan, Trend reports citing the Kazakh media.
“We hope that it will be possible to deploy 5G in Kazakhstan in the near future. But as far as I know, according to the government's plan, this year a 5G pilot project will be launched in three major cities. The launch of the commercial project will begin next year, and it is possible that after a two-year construction period, 5G technology will be available for public use in Kazakhstan by 2023,” he said.
The general director also noted that Huawei Technologies is actively participating in the Digital Kazakhstan program, within the framework of which more than 250 projects have been developed to provide regions with communications and broadband Internet access.
“More than 1,000 base stations have been deployed to date and these projects are still in constant development and progress. For our part, we provide high-quality services to Kazakhstan, help build a ubiquitous and affordable basic broadband network, and help stimulate various innovations in the service sector and the development of the ICT industry as a whole,” Qingguo said.
“This year, Huawei Technologies, together with Kazakhtelecom, launched the first fully dedicated FWA network in the 2300 MHz range in Central Asia and one of the first in the world. To deploy the FWA network, Kazakhtelecom used 4T4R base stations, which provide greater network capacity for FWA subscribers and the ability to aggregate certain stations in the future,” the expert said.
“This network will provide wireless Internet access to rural residents and will solve the problem of covering the private sector where there are no wired access networks. A pilot network has already been launched in the city of Koschi, Akmola region,” the general director added.