ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Information Technology and Tele­com­mu­nication Anusha Rahman has said that Pakistan will become the first country to test 5G technology.

Talking to APP on Monday, she said the government would start preparations for the introduction of 5G by 2021 and claimed that Pakistani people would adopt the new technology ahead of all other Asian countries.

The 4G spectrum licence was sold for $295 million and after getting 10 per cent advance tax by the bidder the total amount of $330m of the auction had been deposited in the national kitty, a ministry’s spokesperson said.

The number of broadband users increased from 3.7m to 44m over the past four years and now with the leap to 5G networks, “we can start to comple­t­ely reshape entire industries, and rethink how we run our cities and manage critical national infrastructures”.

Published in Dawn, July 4th, 2017

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