Afrimax-Vodafone Group has successfully completed the deployment of Airspan's leading LTE-Advanced indoor and outdoor network solutions. Afrimax-Vodafone Group is the first to deploy the Band 40 2.3GHz TDD which combines LTE and Wi-Fi indoor with a smart hand over between the technologies in Africa.
In 2014, Afrimax entered into a Partner Markets Agreement with Vodafone and is now part of the Vodafone family with over 400 million customers globally. Afrimax holds 4G LTE spectrum in a number of countries across Sub-Saharan Africa, covering 220 million people.
Airspan claims that its compact indoor and outdoor eNodeB and EPC technology provides coverage and capacity at a much lower power, footprint and cost of ownership compared to a traditional macro-centric architecture.
AirVelocity, an indoor, high performance, LTE-Advanced and Wi-Fi small cell, designed to bring Public Access LTE networks to indoor spaces. AirVelocity reduces the indoor mobile hot spots and creates much greater indoor coverage for the end user.
AirHarmony provides the outdoor micro layer of a heterogeneous LTE-Advanced network deployment. With advanced feature sets which includes support for SON, advanced interference mitigation techniques and cooperative quality of service over the Backhaul interface ensures the experience from the micro eNodeB matches the experience from the macro cell.
Lars Stork Chief Operating Officer of Afrimax-Vodafone Group
Our vision is to provide superior LTE systems in Zambia that will offer high-quality Internet connectivity in order to bridge the digital divide, which is critical to the growth and empowerment of people not only in Zambia but across the African continent.
Henrik Smith-Petersen, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer
Airspan is fully supportive to Afrimax in their business model and expansion where small cells and backhaul solutions play a key role of the network's vision moving forward.
