Friday, September 14, 2018

Pakistan Planning to Launch 5G Services in 2019




Looking at the importance of early launch of future generation technology of mobile called “5G”, Government of Pakistan has announced that it is preparing to launch 5G in the country by 2019. The legacy mobile standards are focused to provide people to people contact whereas 5G is supposed to support connection from people to everything.

This is great news, as the introduction of this technology on one hand will bring foreign investment in the country and on the other hand it will provide state of the art mobile services to the peoples of Pakistan.

We already have four cellular operators in Pakistan. First is Zong from China Mobile, second comes Ufone by Pak Telecom Mobile Ltd., the third is Telenor from Norway and the last fourth one is Jazz by Russian Vimpelcom.

Pakistan, which has already secured 4th position as freelancing capitals in the world in a survey conducted by Oxford Internet Institute, will be taking more advantage by the huge bandwidth and quality of service promises made by 5G.

Applications of 5G:


eHealth: Some of the major application areas of 5G are eHealth where patient’s data like heart beats, glucose level etc can be sent to distant hospital to face emergency condition of a patient.

Self Driving Cars: In self driving cars, the nearby cars can communicate with each to avoid accidents or to help each other find traffic free roads.

Smart Cities: Smart cities will be based on 5G services to provide smart streetlights, information about available parking places, intelligent cameras to monitor streets of the city for security purpose etc.

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