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Qatar has been demonstrating leadership in 5G development. There has been a very significant activity surrounding the 5G development in Qatar in Qatar for a certain period of time with the Ooredoo Qatar displaying particular interest by being able to establish the partnerships with the solutions providers such as Nokia and Ericsson. Such efforts towards the 5G development have culminated in the year 2018 with the Ooredoo Qatar claiming that it had been deployed first commercial 5G network globally. In the year 2018 on May, it had gone on and switched on the live 3.5GHz 5G, New Radio, that is non-standalone, and numerous months later it further announced that it had deployed over 50 active sites around the capital city of Doha. Not to be completely undone, the Vodafone Qatar went ahead and announced that it had conducted the 5G testing as well as starting to deploy 50 locations across Qatar.

By the end of the year 2018 on August, the initial 5G network got to be launched, and the Vodafone had seen the connection of the first enterprise customer. But, until the 5G compatible devices had been made available, both the operators are going to be unable to offer the significant mass-market 5G services. Qatar’s mobile industry has enjoyed some progress for some time now with the substantial LTE network’s in place. For a while, it has been considered to be among the highly connected markets in Middle East with the broadband penetration among highest in this region. The services are usually available via the ADSL, the (FttH) Fiber to the Home, mobile and wireless. There has been a lack of competition in the fixed market in Qatar however.

Qatar’s citizens have become some of the largest users of the internet in the Middle East and have been able to embrace the (OTS) Over The Top services. In general, GCC countries including Qatar gets to represent more progressive countries in terms of the telecoms growth in Middle East region. The valuable report offers analyses, the information, insights and the industry statistics into the Qatar’s progressive telecom sector. Also, it includes Middle East Telecoms Index (Maturity) that is the index, on the scale between 0-100, which measures and also ranks relative maturity of telecoms industry in the 11 countries across Middle East. Some of the key developments in this report include: Increased international capacity is going to assist in Qatar’s long term growth goals as has been stated in the national development strategy document, the Qatar National Vision 2030.