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stc Speaks to SAMENA Council

5G is a critical element network in May 2018, stc has announced stc has been engaging with different
verticals for different 5G use cases,
that it is expanding its 5G network across
for accelerating digital the Kingdom and achieving the highest Working with industry for smart campus
transformational across reach level in the MENA Region and network concept that will support further
multiple industries such worldwide. stc has also announced that digitization and diverse set of use cases
it is working on completing the following
implementation. In Healthcare, connecting
as Oil & Gas, Healthcare, phases of spreading the 5G services on a multiple thermal cameras in different
Public Sector, Education, wider scale to ensure keeping up with the location backhaul by 5G to remote
newest global technologies, improving
command and control site for remote
Government etc., however, digital services, and enriching the monitoring and analysis. In the media and
it benefits from additional customer experience across the Kingdom. entertainment, taking advantage of 5G high
elements such as low stc emphasis on 5G commercial services bandwidth and low latency by eliminating
the need for cabling/pre-cabling in
latency, high speed, and is in line with the Kingdom's digital broadcast camera and replacing it with
edge computing is going transformation plans, and the objectives a portable solution that transmits the
highest quality live video via 5G network.
of the National Transformation Program
to unlock many industrial as well as the Saudi Vision 2030, and seen
applications. as a confirmation of the advancement ‘Smart Campus’ is an innovative dimension
of the infrastructure that the stc Group of 5G technology, and with high throughput
In Saudi Arabia, stc was the first operator has contributed to developing by heavily and very low latency, Smart Campus will
to provide 5G services commercially and investing in it to ensure an advanced facilitate the introduction of intelligent
making it available to its customers in technical future. applications and advanced use cases such
several cities. After the launch of first 5G as 5G CCTV, Cloud PC (office Application),

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