The collaboration will ensure the availability of devices that will operate on a faster, more advanced LTE network to users in the region transitioning from feature phones to smartphones. LTE-A Category 6 Carrier Aggregation allows consumers to experience a network download speed of up to 300Mbps and a 50Mbps upload speed. It improves coverage quality, provides enhanced HD video capabilities, offers faster data access, and reduces packet latencies. Additionally, the same segment of devices will be capable of supporting Voice over LTE (VoLTE), Voice over WiFi (VoWiFi) and Video over LTE (ViLTE).

At the end of 2015, there were 72 live LTE networks in 32 countries across Africa. Most, if not all, can expect to evolve to LTE Advanced between 2017 and 2020. Enabling these capabilities on MediaTek devices will bring a new broadband connectivity experience to millions of users, while simultaneously adding network capacity to handle increased network traffic.