INSIDE THE PAVILION e& shows the true power of 5G — how it saves lives, boosts firms

Step into e&’s pavilion at Gitex 2025 and you won't find generic displays about gigabit speeds or bandwidth. Instead, you'll see how a 5G body-worn camera can help a firefighter stream live video from a disaster zone, or how augmented-reality (AR) glasses can enable an offshore oil worker to receive remote assistance 80 kilometres out at sea.

- BY ABDULLA RASHEED

You’ll also see a surgical robot operated with millimetre-level precision over a private network slice fully dedicated to that procedure.

“That's what 5G-Advanced, is really about,” Hatem Dowidar, Group CEO of e&, tells Gulf News. “For years, 5G was framed in terms of latency, throughput, and spectrum, not what it would actually enable... Now we’re seeing what it means when someone’s life is on the line, or when a factory needs to operate 24/7 without a single dropped connection. That’s what 5G-Advanced, is really about,” says Dowidar.