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MTN Uganda announced a five-year strategic partnership with Huawei Technologies to transform and modernize its network towards a Cloud-native 5G-Capable Core network. This project is part of the greater MTN Group MUNIC strategy that will see MTN Uganda’s network evolve into an All-Cloud Core network.
MTN Uganda has announced a five-year strategic partnership with Huawei Technologies, a global ICT solutions provider, to transform and modernize its network towards a Cloud-native 5G-Capable Core network.
This partnership dubbed as ‘MUNA’ project is part of the greater MTN Group MUNIC strategy that will see MTN Uganda’s network evolve into an All-Cloud Core network.
True to its strategic intent of ensuring that everyone enjoys the benefits of a modern connected world, this initiative shall allow MTN Uganda to have a future-oriented network with greater service agility, innovation for both consumer and industrial verticals, differentiation, improved operational efficiency, and better customer experiences with higher data speeds and reduced latency. It further accelerates MTN’s Ambition 2025 strategic objective of leading digital transformation in Africa through innovation that will step-change businesses in Africa.
The project implementation shall take on a phased approach and will be overseen by Huawei technologies for the five years period, drawing on its unique capabilities and advanced global technology experience. This is expected to culminate in a unification of the different existing legacy core network elements (such as MSCs, HLR, HSS, and EIR) into a single vendor and simplified easy-to-manage Cloud-native core network.
MTN Uganda Chief Executive Officer, Sylvia Mulinge, notes that the MUNA partnership with Huawei makes MTN’s core network battle-ready for the impending 5G launch.“In 2020, we were the first operator in East Africa to do a successful 5G network demonstration. While that was a non-commercial exhibition, this modernization of our network comes in as a precursor of the 5G capabilities which Uganda is going to experience soon,” she said.
“This will not only help MTN, but other telecom companies as well to have improved Quality of Service. In this journey of digital transformation, we are running as a country, to keep pace with the rest of the world. This intervention is in line with the country’s vision 2040 that aims at the transformation of our society.” added Dr. Chris Baryomunsi, Minister for ICT & National Guidance
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