Portugal’s leading operator MEO has committed to massive MIMO (mMIMO) as a long term strategy to ensure more consistent performance across its 5G coverage area, including the uplink as well as downlink. This comes shortly after MEO claimed to have 96% of the country’s population covered with 5G, including all significant towns and cities. The operator is also facing the reality that actual performance obtained does not always live up to the promise and tends to fall away towards the boundaries of cells and during handover. MEO also sees mMIMO as critical for its ability to deliver more advanced 5G services to customers, in some cases through standardized APIs. MEO aims to open up its network to third party developers…