Emerge Gaming Limited announced that it has launched its new Competitive Game Streaming service as MTN Arena 5G, in partnership with MTN in South Africa. Emerge has partnered with MTN South Africa to launch this service as a 5G use case targeting MTN's 5G mobile subscribers that are a more affluent market segment. MTN's 4G mobile subscriber base and terrestrial fibre users with access to consistent download speeds of more than 10mbps (i.e. high bandwidth mobile 4G LTE or terrestrial fibre connections) will also be able to make use of this service.

The MTN Arena 5G service is a complimentary to the existing MTN Arena service providing competitive html5 gaming that targets lower to mid market segments and which has been gaining traction in the South African market. The service is launched as a proof of concept with 3 competitive premium games produced and developed and curated by the Emerge Game Studio. Previously, Emerge demonstrated streaming technology over MTN's newly launched 5G network in South Africa.

Emerge and MTN were the first in the southern hemisphere to demonstrate game streaming technology over a 5G network and since then have been working to develop a Game Streaming service offering. Emerge executed an addendum ("Addendum") to the Content Services Agreement executed with MTN South Africa that confirmed the launch of its new Competitive Game Streaming service (i.e. MTN Arena 5G) in partnership with MTN. Under the terms of the Addendum, Emerge will earn 60%, and MTN 40%, of the Shareable Revenue received from MTN Arena 5G.

Under the terms of the Addendum, MTN has agreed to promote the launch of the MTN Arena 5G game streaming service proof of concept through a first phase promotional campaign ("Promotional Launch Offer"). MTN South Africa has agreed to offer 1,500,000 "play tokens" for a limited period to a targeted group of 5G and 4G LTE subscribers for free with a maximum of 10 play tokens to be issued per subscriber. Thereafter the user signs up for a periodic subscription payment or can make once-off purchases of "play tokens".

MTN has agreed to pay Emerge a discounted at 0.70 (±AUD0.06) per play token redeemed for entry with Emerge having the opportunity to earn up to AUD 100,000 in revenue from the MTN funded launch promotion.