Added after our earlier coverage. The original source date is shown below; this is not a new announcement today.
What happened
ZTE reported on November 4 that its AIR RAN deployment raised 4G capacity by 11% and peak-hour user throughput by 40% against the traditional setup. Its scheduling runs on FDD Massive MIMO equipment.
Why it matters
The two percentages answer different questions: how much traffic the network can carry, and how fast a user can move data at busy times. Neither establishes a nationwide speed increase. The vendor did not identify the test duration in the announcement.
What to watch
Look for the number of sites, the comparison period and independent measurements before extrapolating the gains.
Sources & verification
Source links are not a count of independent confirmations.
01ZTE: pre-commercial AIR RAN deployment with Ethio telecomPrimary source · www.zte.com.cn · Nov 4, 2026
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