![]() Urban 5G has to date focused on site-specific initiatives like industrial facilities, sporting events, smart districts and critical transport infrastructures such as ports. All but one city have deployed 5G, whether in pilots and testing or for commercial use. The DCI cities overwhelmingly recognise and support 5G, with all but one having a strategy in place either in a national or local initiative, while recognising multiple use-case applications such as fixed wireless access, enhanced mobile broadband, massive machine-type communications and the IoT. ![]() However, prompted by the pandemic, municipalities across the world, from Washington DC to Jakarta, have stepped up their investments in connectivity, such as offering free Wi-Fi and adding hotspots-in some cases for the first time-potentially creating a new era of more direct intervention to address digital divides.Ĭities are “5G-ready” but rollout needs to be comprehensive to enable the full realisation of intelligent cities. Unaffordable, unreliable or inaccessible internet services will impact many city-level goals-especially during the covid-19 pandemic era when, for example, socioeconomically disadvantaged children have been unable to access online learning resources even in high-income areas. In many cities in the DCI, connectivity levels are too low or limited to allow for comprehensive digital transformation, with half of the cities scoring below 70 out of 100.
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