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FEATURE: 5G
Partners will support U Mobile’ s aggressive goal of achieving 80 % coverage of populated areas within the first 12 months and 90 % coverage of populated areas in the subsequent 12 months. months of commencing its network deployment, and 90 % coverage of populated areas in the subsequent 12 months.
This is in line with the company’ s overall strategy to expedite the nation’ s adoption of 5G and 5G-A – with a particular focus on supporting enterprises.

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Mobile has named Huawei Malaysia and ZTE Malaysia as its technology partners for Malaysia’ s Next Gen 5G network.
Huawei and ZTE will be crucial to U Mobile’ s network goals as the company targets to achieve 80 % coverage of populated areas within the first 12
U Mobile has shared that their Next Gen 5G network is enterprise-grade and will also meet the diverse needs of organisations and applications with 5G-Advanced and network slicing available from the start of rollout. In addition, U Mobile is also looking to increase the number of indoor sites to enhance 5G in-building coverage, which is currently limited.
The company also highlighted that the network will prioritise key focus areas such as transportation hubs, medical and sports facilities, smart cities and data centres.

U Mobile selects Huawei Malaysia and ZTE Malaysia as technology partners for next gen 5G network

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