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MTN and Airtel Africa among bidders for Nigerian 5G licences – Metro US

MTN and Airtel Africa among bidders for Nigerian 5G licences

FILE PHOTO: The logo of MTN is pictured in Abuja
FILE PHOTO: The logo of MTN is pictured in Abuja

ABUJA (Reuters) – Nigeria’s telecoms regulator has picked MTN Nigeria, Airtel Africa and Mafab Communications to bid for 5G licences at an auction set for Dec. 13, it said on Thursday.

The Nigeria Communications Commission had said in July that it expected to start auctioning spectrum for the next-generation 5G network in the fourth quarter of this year.

(Reporting by Felix Onuah; Writing by MacDonald Dzirutwe; Editing by David Goodman)