Minister of Information and Communications Dauren Abayev commented on the issue of the timing of the appearance in Kazakhstan 5G.

"Next year in Sharm el-Sheikh, the International Telecommunication Union will adopt the standards, according to which 5G will be implemented all over the world.We will now sum up this work with the international telecommunication union and the standards will be determined," he said.

Also he noted that in the pilot 5G regime in the next year will be introduced in a number of regions of Kazakhstan.

"We want to conduct a pilot, the pilot determined that this will be in the cities of Almaty, Astana, Almaty and Akmola region, in these 4 regions we plan to conduct a pilot in the second half of 2019," D. Abaev explained.

“The Qazaq Times”