Ericsson Multimedia Services Premier in Africa

Africa’s next generation multimedia services are now available to the massive pre-paid population in Rwanda on the MTN Rwandacell network, with Ericsson  solutions for multimedia and charging. 

 This means people in households as well as business users can have equal opportunity to have chat, presence and video communication on mobile or fixed networks.

The Rwanda Utilities and Regulatory Agency (RURA) calculates that prepaid mobile subscribers constitute more than 80 percent of Rwanda’s telecom market. Of the three players on that market, MTN Rwandacell is the largest. By transforming its network into an IP-based converged network and migrating all of its subscribers to a common IP-based service platform, MTN Rwandacell secures that high-quality voice and multimedia services will be available to its subscribers, whether they are on pre-paid or post-paid plans.

Additionally, MTN Rwandacell is the first to commercially deploy Multimedia Telephony (MMTel) based on IMS in all of Africa.