{"id":335746,"date":"2025-12-24T00:08:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.developingtelecoms.com\/telecom-business\/vendor-news\/19544-ericssons-majda-lahlou-kassi-on-empowering-africas-digital-economy-through-5g-a-ai.html"},"modified":"2025-12-24T00:08:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:08:16","slug":"ericssons-majda-lahlou-kassi-on-empowering-africas-digital-economy-through-5g-a-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=335746","title":{"rendered":"Ericsson\u2019s Majda Lahlou Kassi on Empowering Africa\u2019s Digital Economy through 5G-A &amp; AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.developingtelecoms.com\/\/images\/stories\/Sponsored\/Majda_Lahlo_Kassi_Ericsson_1200x900.jpg\" alt=\"Ericsson\u2019s Majda Lahlou Kassi on Empowering Africa\u2019s Digital Economy through 5G-A &amp; AI\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<p>Ericsson is widely recognized as a European telecom technology leader, but its legacy in Africa is equally profound. Since installing some of the first telephone exchanges in South Africa in 1896, Ericsson has played a pivotal role in building networks across every generation; from the earliest generations to today\u2019s advanced 5G infrastructure. Now, Ericsson is at the forefront of Africa\u2019s next connectivity wave, enabling operators to modernize networks, expand 5G coverage, and deliver inclusive digital services, all while reducing total cost of ownership and energy consumption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ericsson is widely recognized as a European telecom technology leader, but its legacy in Africa is equally profound. Since installing some of the first telephone exchanges in South Africa in 1896, Ericsson has played a pivotal role in building networks&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5352],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-335746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vendors"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=335746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":335747,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335746\/revisions\/335747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=335746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=335746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=335746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}