Under the regards to the contract, AIS will rent 13,500 base stations which the provider anticipates to release over the next 2 years
Thai provider Advanced Details System (AIS) has actually signed a contract to rent Radio Gain access to Network (RAN) devices to state-run operator National Telecom (NT), according to regional press reports.
The contract will permit the state-owned business to supply 5G services utilizing its 700 MHz spectrun. The reports kept in mind that this leasing contract has actually been currently authorized by the regional regulator.
Under the regards to the contract, AIS will rent 13,500 base stations which the provider anticipates to release over the next 2 years. In addition, a nationwide roaming offer on AIS facilities has actually been concurred upon up until March 2036.
Throughout the building and construction of the brand-new network facilities, AIS consented to supply nationwide roaming services to NT totally free of charge. As part of a different contract, NT will move half of its 700 MHz spectrum to AIS, with the arrangement that 20% of the spectrum be scheduled for MVNOs.
This different offer specifies that AIS will pay NT an overall of THB14.9 billion ($ 419.6 million) for the spectrum.
State-owned feline Telecom had actually formerly gotten 2, 5-megahertz blocks of 700 MHz spectrum in an auction in 2020 for THB34.3 billion. In addition, NT strategies to release 5G services for business utilizing 400 megahertz of 26 GHz spectrum gotten from toddler, which later on combined with feline Telecom.
Chinese supplier ZTE just recently partnered with AIS and Qualcomm Technologies to finish the trial of mmWave 5G Standalone innovation at the AZ center in Bangkok.
Throughout the trial, ZTE kept in mind that 5G mmWave SA innovation attained downlink speeds of 7.04 Gbps, uplink speeds of 2.12 Gbps under and end-to-end latency of less than 4 milliseconds. The business included that these outcomes were attained utilizing a single CPE model powered by Snapdragon X65 5G Modem-RF System from Qualcomm Technologies, together with ZTE’s newest mmWave AAU network facilities devices.
AIS’s 5G network currently covered all 77 provinces of Thailand since completion of in 2015. AIS introduced 5G Non-Standalone (NSA) service in February 2020 utilizing the 700 MHz, 2.6 GHz and 26 GHz bandwidth that it won in the spectrum auction, followed by 5G SA in July 2020 in cooperation with Huawei.
AIS’ client base reaches almost 46.1 million customers, consisting of 6.8 million 5G customers since completion of the 4th quarter of 2022. AIS had actually released around 26,000 5G base stations across the country since December 2022.