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Africa in Motion

Africa in Motion

Africa in Motion

Africa in Motion is about Ericsson's mission to empower a sustainable and connected Africa. Ericsson has been connecting Africa for over 100 years and has built the wireless networks for every generation – from the early 1G networks to the first advanced 5G networks. Our promise and commitment towards Africa are to always support a world where digitalization is transforming the eco-system; enabling sustainable growth, economic development and creating opportunities for all.

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What's Next for Africa?

Step into Africa's digital future: Insights from MWC 2025

The Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2025 hosted a pivotal session, "Step into Africa’s Digital Future," as part of the Ericsson conference program. The session offered a deep dive into the transformative potential of digital advancements across Africa, featuring a lineup of industry leaders and experts who shared their insights on driving digital growth and innovation in the region.

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Blogs and Cases

Enhancing the mine of the future with cellular networks

Learn how Ericsson and Epiroc are collaborating to boost mine safety and productivity, and making it easy for mine operators to use private cellular technologies for wireless telematics data, digitalization, and automation applications in mines.

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Navigating Fixed Wireless Access Offerings: An Informed Approach

In the realm of modern connectivity, Fixed Wireless Access has emerged as a vital player. When it comes to offering FWA services, service providers typically adopt two main approaches: speed-based and best effort tariffs.

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Optimizing Operator’s OPEX: Ensuring Zero Footprint 5G

Imagine a simple and cost-efficient Radio network that gives your business a competitive edge. You will need a partner that can offer the best customer experience at the best price performance. Ericsson is that Partner.

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MTN Mobile Money Open APIs: Accelerating Fintech Innovation

To accelerate the growth of mobile financial services and encourage fintech innovation in Africa, MTN made its Mobile Money platform available to third parties by launching the Mobile Money Open API platform.

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Reports

Sunsetting Legacy Technologies

The global technology shift towards 4G and 5G services is underway, with spectrums being refarmed to accommodate faster data speeds, lower latency, and improved connectivity. Service providers are optimizing spectrum utilization due to its scarcity and cost.

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Impact of Antenna Efficiency

Our systems enhance efficiency with advanced mixed-mode radio technologies. Read how our Antenna System Technology emphasizes significance of appropriate evaluation methodologies to assess the impact of antenna parameters on network performance metrics.

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Future of Work Life – Africa Edition

We examine what has occurred in work life after the pandemic in a handful of markets in Africa. We look into how companies and employees deal with the current landscape, what the future work life could look like, and the five ways employees envision the future.

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Repurposing 4G spectrum for 5G deployments

Communication Service Providers frequently need to repurpose the spectrum to the new, more efficient generations of mobile technology. The similarity in the air interface between 4G and 5G allows for a more efficient spectrum repurpose compared to any other technology.

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Stories from Africa

Portfolio highlights

Modernize sites with the latest multi-sector, dual-band radio for capacity expansion and energy efficiency

With masts and towers making up 60 percent of all radio access sites, the end-to-end radio portfolio from Ericsson has been designed holistically to modernize, minimize and monetize existing infrastructure. These compact and easily deployable solutions offer much-needed capacity expansion and energy efficiency with lower total cost of ownership. The result is a direct path to 5G and the chance to deliver superior connectivity to more customers than ever before.

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Ericsson Radio System is designed to fit all site types and traffic scenarios, even as networks grow in scale and complexity, from 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G.

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The Ericsson Operations Engine directly and proactively addresses communications service providers’ managed services complexity challenges.

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Ericsson Mobile Financial Services combine the power of mobile communication and financial services to offer easy-to-use and secure next-generation mobile money, digital wallet, and digital payment services.

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Ericsson Cloud Core is a complete core network portfolio of products and solutions, serving more than 300 operators globally

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ATU Spectrum Recommendation

ATU Spectrum Recommendation

Spectrum is the life-blood of mobile communication. Policies governing spectrum need to be optimized with a focus on prioritizing access to the right spectrum at the right time and under the right conditions. Ericsson’s key recommendations to governments in this respect include:

  • Maximizing the availability of spectrum in a timely and planned manner is critical for economic growth.
  • Prioritization of pervasive high quality network deployment over maximizing spectrum fees.
  • Long term licenses with flexibility in licensing conditions and clear renewal terms.

The ATU spectrum recommendation provide detailed guidelines around spectrum licensing, evolution and management along the same principles.

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