{"id":199831,"date":"2025-06-09T07:44:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T05:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-launches-first-renewable-powered-5g-network\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T07:44:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T05:44:56","slug":"sierra-leone-launches-first-renewable-powered-5g-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/sierra-leone-launches-first-renewable-powered-5g-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone Launches First Renewable-Powered 5G Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"1\"><em>TLDR<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sierra Leone will deploy its first 5G network powered by renewable energy, marking a significant step in both its digital and energy transitions<\/li>\n<li>The initiative involves powering 5G towers with solar PV, battery storage, and backup generators to ensure high reliability<\/li>\n<li>CrossBoundary is financing the initial five towers to accelerate the rollout, starting in Freetown and expanding nationwide<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Sierra Leone will deploy its first 5G network powered by renewable energy, marking a significant step&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506090114.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TLDR Sierra Leone will deploy its first 5G network powered by renewable energy, marking a significant step in both its digital and energy transitions The initiative involves powering 5G towers with solar PV, battery storage, and backup generators to ensure high reliability CrossBoundary is financing the initial five towers to accelerate the rollout, starting in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":199832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,5957,6572,8265,257,51572,6571,1135,254],"class_list":["post-199831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-launches","tag-leone","tag-network","tag-news","tag-renewablepowered","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}