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assisted living and wearables. 5G located 3,000km away from the surgeon. technologies (e.g. URLLC use cases require
becomes extremely crucial for URLLC use Post the operation, the doctor mentioned, 5G standalone core which is not expected
cases within smart health such as remote “The 5G network has solved problems to be deployed before 2022) and operator
surgery which can only work on extremely like video lag and remote-control delay relationships with customer segments, the
low latency. experienced under the 4G network, figure below provides a potential adoption
ensuring a nearly real-time operation”. timeline for 5G use cases in the GCC.
The market size for remote patient
monitoring in the MENA region is 3. Adoption timeline for GCC eMBB and FWA will be amongst the first
forecasted to grow at a CAGR of 10-15% Operators may struggle to identify the 5G use cases to be adopted (already offered in
between 2023 and 2028 and account for use cases that may be relevant to them in multiple countries), followed by use cases
12-14% of the overall IoT market in MENA the short, medium and long term. When that are enhanced by 5G, but can also
by 2028. 5G is expected to capture 20% of selecting use cases to focus on, operators work on older technologies (smart grid,
the market. need to consider a range of factors such wearables, drones, etc.). Mission critical
as their existing relationships, current use cases will primarily be adopted once
China’s PLA General Hospital (PLAGH) service offerings to industry segments, the 5G standalone deployments begin and
collaborated with China Mobile and investment requirements, and the revenue include URLLC use cases such as remote
Huawei to perform the first-ever 5G remote opportunities presented by each use surgery, ultra-high frequency mobile
brain surgery. The surgery was conducted case. Considering the dominant industry trading and autonomous vehicles.
in about three hours and the patient was sectors in the GCC, timing of availability of

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