5g Towers In Saudi Arabia
Zain group said the towers form the first phase of its rollout in saudi arabia which will be followed by a gradual expansion of the network to cover a total of 26 saudi cities utilising 2 600 towers by the end of 2019 serving its 8 3 million customers.
5g towers in saudi arabia. Stc is deploying a 5g network using ericsson commercial hardware and solutions including radio access network ran packet core transport and ericsson network manager 5g at mid and high bands is well suited for deployment at existing site grids the two partners combined effort aims to create significant value towards saudi arabia rsquo s vision 2030. Afp updated 06 april 2019. Mobile bitrates map and stc zain mobily mobile networks coverage.
Saudi arabia ranks third globally and first in the middle east europe and north africa region in the deployment of 5g networks as the kingdom installed more than 5 797 towers across 30 cities. Middle east telecom group zain has launched commercial 5g operations in saudi arabia the telco said in a release. In the initial deployment phase the telco deployed 2 000 towers that covered an area of more than 20 cities across saudi arabia.
The three mnos in saudi arabia stc mobily and zain have been considering the sale or carve out of their tower assets for the past few years. Total number of 5g sim cards using its own network mno excluding machine to machine m2m up to 3 year historical quarterly data of in saudi arabia. Zain saudi arabia deployed the region s largest 5g network to date with 2 000 towers covering an area of more than 20 cities in the kingdom.
Stc was the first to take the initiative at the end of 2019 figure 1 following a lengthy series of developments and changes in the strategies of all three mnos. Network coverage saudi arabia 3g 4g 5g coverage map saudi arabia cellular data networks in saudi arabia. Saudi arabia has about 1 000 telecoms towers already supporting 5g and the super fast mobile services will be available within months a senior government official said.
The ministry has put over 2 billion funds in place to roll out fibre networks across the kingdom. Zain launched commercial 5g operations in saudi arabia in october 2019. Saudi arabia is expecting to have its first 5g commercial pilot by q4 this year followed by full commercial launch in early 2020 according to abdullah al kanhal deputy minister mcit saudi arabia.
This map represents the coverage of 2g 3g 4g and 5g mobile network.
