…As 5G Global Patronage Increases
The executive Vice chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) , professor Umar Danbatta, has revealed that the signals emanating from 5G transmission networks are as less harmful as those emitting from TV signals.
The EVC spoke at the time the 5G technology, is making inroads, in several countries.
For instance, Ericsson, which operates in Nigeria has announced it reached a new milestone by securing 100 commercial 5G contracts with operators spanning five continents.
Danbatta spoke to the media recently were he debunked claims made by some that 5G is harmful and may have contributed to the Covid 19 Pandemic. The EVC also used the occasion to speak on the benefits of 5G to Nigerian communication users.
The EVC said the NCC can guarantee Nigerians that communication signals, generally, among them those of 5G, are not harmful to Nigerians because they are put within a limit that would not pose any danger. According to him communication signals are within certain levels such that they are safe, even much safer than TV signals.
He noted that TV signals are not harmful, because the signals coming from them are so small that they are not harmful, even to children who often go near televisions in homes, saying that even the communication signals are smaller than TV signals.
According to him the 5G technology is an enhancement of the 4G in terms of its very low latency, meaning the way the signal containing speeches and messaging struggle from the source to the users’ device is in a speed of a fraction of second. It is also an enhanced broadband platform compared to 4G, in terms of capacity, volume and many users can be aggregated in the same channel without losing integrity.
In a statement, Ericsson said the figure included 56 live 5G networks and 58 publicly-announced deals.
The latest addition to Ericsson’s customer list was the launch of the first commercial 5G network in Slovenia on 23 July in collaboration with Telekom Slovenije, which now covered an estimated 25 per cent of the country’s population.
Ericsson’s contracts cover 5G New Radio (NR) technology testing and trials, commercial deals, network rollouts, and RAN and core network deployments.
The vendor also hailed efforts made in developing 5G use cases, including in factory automation, smart offices, remote surgery, among other enterprise and Industry 4.0 applications.
Ericsson CEO Borje Ekholm noted the company continued “to put our customers centre stage to help them deliver the benefits of 5G to their subscribers, industry, society and countries as a critical national infrastructure”.
