Second 5G Site Launched in Tehran

reporter 1222 — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 05:31:41 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – A week after the first trial in Iran for the high-speed 5G mobile Internet technology, the second testing site was launched on Tuesday.

Iran’s second-largest mobile operator MTN Irancell unveiled the 5G site in Tehran, which was attended by the managing director of the telecom company, IRNA reported.

Talking to reporters on the sidelines of the inauguration ceremony, MTN Irancell Managing Director Bijan Abbasi said that, today, when we talk about digital economy, with the use of the new generation technology, it seems that the share of digital economy in the country will increase.

“We are not just looking for importing new technology, and we are trying to bring technology by the help of Iranian new technology-based firms (NTBF),” he said.

Abbasi pointed to the indigenization of the 5G communication modem and said, “The production of this modem has been ordered by our company and will be produced by an Iranian NTBF.”

An Iranian deputy communications and information technology (CIT) minister said on July 22 that a first trial in the country for the high-speed 5G mobile Internet technology has been successfully carried out in a laboratory in Tehran.

Sattar Hashemi said the test conducted in the CIT Research Center in Tehran had reached a speed of 1.5 gigabits per second (Gb/s).

“The 5G is a major improvement on 4G regarding the delay in sending information and we managed to reduce the delay by five to six milliseconds in this test,” Hashemi told Mehr News Agency.

He said high-ranking government officials would soon hold a ceremony to officially unveil 5G in the country and announce the terms of its regulation and pricing system.

Previous statements by CIT officials have suggested that Iran’s largest mobile operator, MCI, would launch a first batch of 5G masts in at least six locations in Tehran by the end of summer.

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Iran to Present 5G Internet Soon; ICT Minister says

reporter 1222 — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 05:30:19 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi said on Sunday Mobile Telecommunication Company of Iran will present 5G Internet within months.

Speaking on the sidelines of the ceremony to inaugurate the biggest data center in western and northwestern Iran, Azari Jahromi said the 5G Internet laboratory will be unveiled within two weeks, IRNA reported.

He described the Mobile Telecommunication Company of Iran as the biggest operator in the Middle East which has the widest communication coverage.

He said that the budget has been allocated by the government for expanding the national data network.

Azari Jahromi also said the goal of the country is to have five million Internet TV subscribers, adding that this field of economy is a huge opportunity.

The number of Iranians with access to high-speed mobile Internet services has increased exponentially over the past seven years to reach a total of 70 million, said the Communications Regulatory Authority (CRA) last week.

IRNA cited figures by CRA as saying that coverage of third and fourth generation of mobile Internet had increased from 12 percent of the population in 2013 to nearly 83 percent this year.

It said the total number of 3G and 4G SIM cards owned by Iranians had exceeded 100 million, adding that around 70 million are currently using the high-speed services on an active basis.

The total number of mobile phone subscribers in Iran, a country of nearly 85 million, is currently around 120 million, said the report.

Fast Internet is currently accessible across 83 percent of Iran’s roads and railways, said the report, adding that the figure was almost zero in 2006 according to CRA figures.

The report said, however, that increased coverage of mobile Internet in Iran had come at the expense of reduced access to fast broadband.

The figures showed that using fast broadband had declined to cover only 10 percent of users in Iran this year, down from 42 million users or 53 percent of the population in 2017.

Increased use of high-speed mobile Internet in Iran has come despite restrictions imposed on the country’s access to equipment and technologies needed to expand the communication services sector.

The restrictions, imposed by the United States, have mainly targeted foreign companies delivering key equipment and expertise to Iran.

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