During Mobile World Congress (MWC 2024), Toni Eid, Founder of Telecom Review Group and CEO of Trace Media International, engaged in an exclusive discourse with Saleem Alblooshi, CTO of du, and Eric Zhao, Vice President and CMO of Huawei Wireless Solution to share their perspectives on the progress of the 5G industry, particularly the commercial launch of 5G-Advanced (5G-A or 5.5G).

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In an exclusive interview at the Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, Spain, Tony Eid, CEO of Telecom Review Group conversed with Vikram Sinha, President Director and CEO of Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison (IOH), gathering insights into Indosat's journey towards techco status.

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Iris De Brito, Senior Researcher with the West African Digital Governance Forum, UNU EGOV, gave an exclusive interview with Telecom Review Africa, with a focus on exploring the key challenges that developing countries face in making ICTs accessible in remote rural areas. She detailed the role of ICT in empowering disadvantaged individuals and communities and contributing to their social and economic inclusion. Also, she gave her perspective on the impact of digital technologies on socioeconomic development, particularly for women and girls in remote rural areas of developing countries.

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With the advancement of smart living, smart devices and data on the worldwide web, there is always something going on behind the scenes at labs and R&D centers. Without such workshops of technology, smart living and our cyber life would be at risk; it wouldn’t move or even exist.

Besides the daily exchange of data via billions of emails, data usage is increasing because of smart airports, smart medical systems, smart education, smart traffic management, smart household equipment, smart meters, smart censors, etc. This is generating massive amounts of traffic on our networks and it will continue to increase to reach Z bytes of data per minute, with the expectation to connect 15k new devices every minute (currently, it is at 5K per minute).

This data should be managed, protected and secured, and it seems that R& D centers are focusing on artificial intelligence to teach computers and smart devices to understand their environment, and to be smart and protected from malware and hackers.

Just recently at Yahoo, 500 million emails accounts were hacked. This happened to a giant like Yahoo, not just an individual PC, which shows how important the issue is.

Artificial intelligence promotes cybersecurity by using software that predicts, not just prevents or detects.

How can you control hundreds of thousands of security cameras in a city without artificial intelligence? Or smart software? Cameras such as those in the city of London need thousands of staff 24 hours a day to check the content generated. Only artificial intelligence software can detect the malicious incidents on these cameras. This is but one example.

The future of smart cities is also based on secure technology. Security means creating enough smart solutions and features that enable us to detect an unlimited amount of information at top speed that can treat the huge amount of data transactions.

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