NOVEMBER 2025TELECOM BUSINESS REVIEW8Emerging economies in the Asia Pacific (APAC) are embracing digital transformation as they look to set up smart city infrastructures, in order to allow their economies to compete better, globally. Governments and businesses across the region are ramping up deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions into the public domain, and the trend correlates with IDC's latest IoT Spending Guide, which indicates that APAC is on track to be the global leader for IoT in 2019, accounting for 35.7 percent of worldwide net resources spent. Singapore, for example, has been on the verge of launching its 5G development plans and a fiber network. IoT development and implementation has been a part of the republic's long-term goals since the Smart Nation program, launched in 2014. With interconnectivity playing a critical role in its national agenda, the country wants to fully digitize public services such as mobility, healthcare, financial services, and energy management.The Future of IoT Lies in the 5G EraLooking ahead, as nations and organizations in the APAC continue to rollout IoT initiatives and implementations, there will be an increased demand for better and more connections that will have a significant impact on the network infrastructure.5G and IoT are complementary technologies. At its core, 5G will enable faster data transfer speeds, to vastly reduce network latency, and to greatly increase a network's capacity, enabling more people and devices to connect at the same time. Network operators are designing 5G networks to support a diverse set of IoT use cases by implementing a configurable, virtualized core that will require supporting high capacity and REALIZING THE POTENTIAL OF IOT IN THE 5G ERA THROUGH NETWORK CONVERGENCEBy Gary Newbold, Vice President, Enterprise, Asia Pacific, CommScope [NASDAQ: COMM]IN MY OPINIONGary Newbold
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