These projects will help Pakistan in meeting the future requirements of digitization and the launch of future technologies such as 5G.
By FAISAL SAEED
The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom is aiming to launch 5G internet facility in Pakistan by 2023, and there plan is based on the recent figures which reveal that the telecom industry’s market size has grown to $16.9 billion after attracting $1.2bn in foreign direct investments in the last three years.
The ministry shared their plan in a meeting with the Prime Minister Imran Khan where they shared details of the telecom sector’s performance. The ministry said that projects for “deep fiberisation” have been launched in the country by the Universal Service Fund (USF) to expand the telecom services and internet even in remote and backward areas of the country.
These projects will help Pakistan in meeting the future requirements of digitization and the launch of future technologies such as 5G.
The minister informed, that during the period 2018-22, over 10,000 km optical fibre cable will be laid across the country providing high speed internet to 1,175 towns and the union councils. The ministry has said that USF projects have covered over 1,800km of unserved road network including highways and motorways in Balochistan.
Meanwhile, the Minister for IT and Telecom, Syed Amin ul Haq, while commenting over the importance of deep fiberisation project said that the government was banking heavily on increasing exports of IT services up to $5bn by the end of 2022-23.
“We will ensure affordable and high speed internet to people in small towns and I am sure even girls from KP and GB region will excel as freelancers, while working from their local areas,” the minister added.
Originally published at Mashable Pakistan