5G deployment to be ‘ignited’ in 2021

The company has rounded up its restructuring process and is now upskilling staff and hiring new employees, says new CEO Deon Geyser.

Evotel has installed fibre networks in Newcastle, Krugersdorp and Randfontein and is in the process of rolling out the same in Witbank, Welkom and Lenasia South.

The US and the kingdom commit to safeguarding each country’s national security by excluding high-risk digital equipment suppliers.

The telco says 5G mobile tech has undergone extensive research, with numerous studies finding it has no negative impact on the environment or people.

The regulator joins the list of voices to dispel claims that 5G is the cause of COVID-19.

Strand Consult remains cautiously optimistic about the latest generation of cellular network technology in 2021.

Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams slams attacks on the country’s cellphone network towers, labelling the 5G-coronavirus misinformation as a threat to telecoms investment.

As the fifth-generation technology era ramps up, citizens must be educated to position SA strategically, says Professor Tshilidzi Marwala.

Vuyani Jarana warns that the process will produce ‘a still born that will be extremely costly to funders and which will damage the mobile market going forward’.

Within the next 12 to 18 months, drone services for food delivery and law enforcement will gain traction, pushed by 5G deployment, says Ericsson.

Scale-out storage is network-attached storage where the amount of disk space can be expanded by adding more drives to individual storage clusters, and more clusters as needed.

The market made significant gains in 2020, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the trend is set to continue next year, says BMIT.