AfriConnect to deploy WiMAX network in Zambia

Airspan Networks has won a WiMAX network deployment contract from AfriConnect Zambia, an Internet service provider and subsidiary of the Vodacom Group.

The contract is for the delivery of Airspan 4G equipment for the delivery of broadband services to the Zambian capital, Lusaka, and several other major cities.

The deployment, operating in the 2.5GHz band, uses Airspan’s Air4G compact, macro base station. The first phase of the project includes several thousand subscriber terminals to be deployed in Lusaka, and is expected to expand coverage into additional towns and cities.

The equipment being provided is dual-mode WiMAX/LTE offering a potential migration to LTE in the future.