The future of Latin America could be in the 5G network

The deployment of the technology network 5G in Latin American countries it will be a trigger for development in all sectors, as Joaquín Saldaña Otero, director of Strategy and Marketing at huawei Latin America.

In the region, the cases of Brazil and Mexico stand out because they present significant advances in coverage, the manager highlighted in an interview with Efe within the framework of the LATAM ICT 2022 Congress, organized in Cancun, in the Mexican Caribbean, by Huawei with the support of ITU and GSMA Intelligence.

These countries “are already beginning to release and auction the spectrum, which is the essential input for this 5G deployment,” said Saldaña Otero.

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“Access to technology is helping economic development and we are fervent believers that technology is going to help the general development of the population. We see it in terms of the digital economy that is developing based on this technology,” he noted.

The director of Huawei estimated that in the year 2025 the digital economy reaches a value of 23 trillion dollars worldwide.

He considered that in sectors such as mining, agriculture and health, the benefits will be seen “very quickly”, since the new technology is very easy to adopt.

“Although we are in a phase of incipient deployment of the technology, what we are going to see in the very near future is the rapid adoption of 5G and the proliferation of different use cases in different industries,” he said.

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And added that “Each industry is going to have a specific use case, because they are being developed worldwide based on this technology.”

For Saldaña Otero, Huawei’s Tech4 social responsibility program is particularly relevant at this stage, whose main axes are education so that young people have access to technology and development of their digital skills, and the development of projects that contribute to the preservation of the environment.

Also within these objectives are making devices available to the population that help them with issues such as visual and hearing weakness so that people can have a better quality of life, and lastly, coverage and access to digital technologies.

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Referring to the parallel programs that they maintain with various organizations to bring green energy sources to remote communities and facilitate digitization, the manager assured that they will bring enormous benefits in terms of environmental conservation and economic and social development.

“Bringing coverage, the use of technology and helping them with digital skills is triggering that economic development in all those communities so that they integrate with the rest of the population, which already has those accesses,” he declared.

On the other hand, projects like these seek “bring digital technologies to areas that are likely to have little or no phone coverage,” concluded.

Source: Elcomercio

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