Zain KSA to push for second 5G rollout phase
Zain KSA has announced that it will accelerate its second phase of 5G network rollout throughout the Kingdom in partnership with Infovista’s radio planning portfolio.
The company plans to spread and geographically expand the country’s 5G network aims to deliver the new 5G services to every corner and spot in Saudi Arabia, to ensure that citizens and residents alike have access to the latest, most advanced, and efficient internet services, reflecting positively on working and living conditions.
The rollout is in line with Saudi Vision 2030 and to support the comprehensive digital transformation of the Kingdom.
“As we accelerate the rollout of 5G services in the country with new cities being covered, we want to ensure we deliver best-in-class experience in the location of our customers and to better serve them. As well as provide residents and citizens alike with tools for innovation and development that will benefit the diversification and the competitiveness of the national economy,” Abdulrahman Al-Mufadda, Chief Technology Officer at Zain KSA, said in a statement.
Zain KSA has initially rolled out it’s the first phase of its 5G network during October of 2019 and was ranked first in its 5G in the Kingdom, the Middle East, Europe, and Africa, and fourth globally.
It is also recognized by ICT government authorities as the number one operator for covering all Saudi’s administrative regions, having the largest 5G reach within governorates, and covering to date 50 cities enabled by more than 4,700 towers.
Zain KSA has selected to partner with Infovista based on the company’s track record in network planning, testing, performance and application control solutions for that mission.
Leveraging crowdsourced dataset, including a large volume of social media data, for traffic map creation, Infovista radio planning solution helped Zain KSA reach high levels of accuracy in precise planning for densification to successfully introduce 5G in new cities of the Kingdom.
“We are committed to help Zain KSA deliver in its second phase the incomparable 5G experience to its customers throughout the entire Kingdom. Our radio planning software and optimization solution aims to support the fast and complete deployment of Zain KSA’s 5G network as well as help Zain KSA in creating a paradigm shift in the telecommunications infrastructure by leveraging network automation capabilities,” Faiq Khan, managing director, East Europe, Asia, and Africa at Infovista said in a joint statement.
Zain KSA will benefit from Infovista’s advanced End-to-End 5G planning capabilities, which covers radio to transmission in a synchronized and automated way, to reliably provide the best subscriber performance, capacity, and coverage.