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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

GSMA unveils new digital technology

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Curtis Williams
2133 days ago
20191023
An exhibitor at the GSMA mobile conference in LA shows off the latest crime fighting equipment that allows cameras to turn in the direction of a gunshot whenever it occurs.

An exhibitor at the GSMA mobile conference in LA shows off the latest crime fighting equipment that allows cameras to turn in the direction of a gunshot whenever it occurs.

Curtis Williams

Los An­ge­les

Up to 100,000 lives can be saved an­nu­al­ly us­ing dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy to pre­dict move­ment of pop­u­la­tion.

This is just one of the many ap­pli­ca­tions that dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy is mak­ing a dif­fer­ence in the way we live, ac­cord­ing to Mats Gan­ryd, Di­rec­tor Gen­er­al of GS­MA.

Speak­ing at the GS­MA’s tech­nol­o­gy con­fer­ence here in Los An­ge­les, Granryd gave the ex­am­ple of tech­nol­o­gy be­ing used to fight against tu­ber­cu­lo­sis.

He ex­plained that while big da­ta is used com­mer­cial­ly it is al­so sav­ing lives.

“Tu­ber­cu­lo­sis kills more peo­ple glob­al­ly than any oth­er in­fec­tious dis­ease in the world with In­dia be­ing the worst af­fect­ed. But by ex­am­in­ing move­ment pat­terns us­ing dig­i­tal da­ta, we can now pre­dict with some cer­tain­ty where the next out­break will hap­pen and there­fore set out treat­ment cen­tres and have aware­ness cam­paigns be­fore the ac­tu­al out­break takes hold. This ini­tia­tive alone could save more than 100 thou­sand lives every year, he said.

He not­ed that con­sumers will go be­yond us­ing Google on­ly to play our favourite mu­sic, to a world where dig­i­tal per­son­al as­sis­tance know each one of us in­di­vid­u­al­ly, from our tastes in Net­flix movies to our dai­ly health care needs.

“AI will de­liv­er every­thing from net­work plan­ning to lo­gis­tics to cus­tomer care to se­cu­ri­ty. The in­ter­net of things will lead to dri­ver­less cars con­nect­ed to smart streets, and will be joined by smart homes and smart of­fices that will all con­nect to­geth­er to bring us smart cities.” Granryd pre­dict­ed.

He re­vealed that GS­MA in­tel­li­gence is fore­cast­ing that there will be 1.2 bil­lion smart ve­hi­cle In­ter­net of Things con­nec­tions by 2025.

He said: “These con­nec­tions will fu­el the trans­porta­tion econ­o­my. It is pre­dict­ed that au­tonomous and con­nect­ed trans­porta­tion will ac­count for rough­ly 40 per cent of many cities trans­porta­tion rev­enue by 2030.”

It will be quick­er and more ca­pac­i­ty.

He ex­plained for this to hap­pen reg­u­la­to­ry au­thor­i­ties like the Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Au­thor­i­ty of Trinidad and To­ba­go must make spec­trum avail­able to com­pa­nies at a rea­son­able price and not get greedy up front and kill the prover­bial goose that lays the gold­en egg.


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