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at this year’s event: the launch of KT
Corporation’s commercial 5G network.
The country’s largest mobile operator will
arrive to demonstrate the true power of its
5G business connectivity and strike new
partnerships in the region.
Zain Group, Kuwait
Kuwait’s largest telecommunications
company and a household name in eight
different countries in the Middle East and
North Africa, Zain Group is going live with
its powerhouse collection of solutions at
GITEX 2018. Whatever businesses need to
move at 5G speeds and ride the IoT wave,
Zain has it covered.
and network connectivity, Smart City
projects are setting out to overcome these
issues and make cities cleaner, more efficient
and better coordinated.
Smart Cities offer many benefits to their
populations such as helping them to
find a parking space and smart waste
management in the likes of Sharjah where
sensors enable public bins to send alerts
when they are full. As city populations
become increasingly concerned about the
side effects of pollution, air quality has
become a political issue. Smart Cities offer
an infrastructure which supports goals to
reduce air pollution in numerous ways:
from introducing buildings with smarter
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environmental management, to enabling
drone deliveries which take cars and
motorbikes off the road.
Autonomous cars are expected to be a vital
part of the future with Dubai’s Autonomous
Transportation Strategy expected t o cut
costs and produce substantial savings of up
to US$245 million a year.
However, the sheer volume of connected
devices needed to create future Smart
Cities would put unsurmountable pressure
on networks available today. The only way
to support the vision is to provide more
bandwidth, faster speed and lower latency
through 5G.
Smart City innovations
Cities are getting more crowded. Already,
more than half the world’s population lives
in urban areas and this number is expected
to increase to two thirds by 2050. With
pressure increasing on public services and
infrastructure, cities have been looking for
innovative, future-proofing solutions.
Driven by rapid advancements in Internet of
Things (IoT) technology, cloud computing
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