ISLAMABAD: The government is making efforts to introduce 5G technology in Pakistan by 2020 in order to bring it at par with developed economies in terms of technological advancements, said Minister of State for Information Technology Anusha Rehman on Friday.

Speaking to participants of the first edition of the Huawei Mobile Pakistan Congress in Islamabad, which was titled ‘Enabling Future Together’, she said Pakistan has emerged as a leader in technology use.

“Other countries are studying Pakistan as a case on how it has progressed in the world of technology, whether it is the ICT girls programme or how 3G and 4G technologies have made people economically comfortable,” she said.

She appreciated Huawei’s role in setting precedent for promoting technology in Pakistan by involving industry players and engaging the government in making this a reality.

She urged the company to look into the proposal of manufacturing technological items locally.

“We would love to see Huawei products with made in Pakistan labels,” she said.

She said such events help developing playing fields for all stakeholders and that customers get more information about products in the market.

The event featured demonstrations of highly cutting-edge, mobile enabled products and innovations in Pakistan today.

The five-day event featured topics such as 5G enabling, all flash storage arrays, video cloud, cloud data centres, Huawei 5G network support, 20GBPS in hotspot areas, Xhaul, a 5G oriented transport network solution, digitization, cloud computing and many others.

Booths had live demos of Next Generation Home Broadband, Intelligent Video Surveillance, Next-Generation Digital Campus and other advanced ICT solutions.

Participants were informed that at the Mobile World Congress 2018 held in Barcelona in March, Huawei outlined a vision for 5G by unveiling their latest solutions and shared its vision for a collaborative ecosystem that could stimulate innovation and the development of 5G, All-Cloud network, video, and IoT technologies.

Published in Dawn, April 21st, 2018