The Governor of the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC), Dr. Abdulaziz bin Salem Al-Ruwais, has affirmed that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is working on implementing several initiatives to provide the fifth generation be one of the first countries in providing and activating it for the early benefit of the gains achieved by this technology. This came during his participation at the meeting of the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development held yesterday in the city of Kigali, Rwanda, noting that the CIT sector is being provided by unlimited support of the Government of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, through these great steps the Kingdom has exceeded the approved ceilings for achieving many of the objectives set by the commission, as the Kingdom based on its vision 2030, and the National Transformation 2020 program has set to implement a national funded broadband plan as internet users rate has exceeded 82% by the end of 2017. It is worth mentioning that the meeting, chaired by President of the Republic of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, with the participation of several ministers and heads of companies.
