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“ We ' ve made big investments in many markets , building applications like Bright Sky , for victims of domestic violence , to give them access to services and capabilities that weren ' t available before . We ' ve run a number of projects with Imperial College London . We ’ ve run scientific research projects with our free DreamLab app , which runs computational analysis on cancer and COVID-19 , making use of people ' s smartphones when they ' re asleep in bed . It has more than 2 million users around the world .” Petty continued .
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financial services industry , called ‘ Cbest ’. We ' re really pleased with what we ' re learning from TBS and the interaction that we ' re having with NCSC to raise the bar on cyber security for not just us , but for all of our customers .” Petty said .
The Vodafone Foundation and making a social impact The Vodafone Foundation is a charity organisation that Vodafone established to invest and bring the organisation ' s purpose to life . It invests in a number of projects to connect people to services that are in digital poverty ; to drive education , both in Africa and in Europe , and to also invest in digital applications that improve society as a whole .
The opportunities opened up by 5G In regards to 5G , Petty claims that the industry is still in the early phases . Vodafone has been deploying ‘ non standalone 5G ’, which operates near 5G radios on base stations , but still leverages the 4G core network . When it comes to 5G , the primary benefit , according to Petty , is that the speed will increase and enhance other technologies : “ The biggest next step is 5G standalone , where we stop using the 4G core network and only use the standalone 5G core network . This launches a whole set of new capabilities , leveraging ultra low latency which is really important for augmented and virtual reality applications . And I think you ' ll see a big focus in consumer and business on leveraging augmented and virtual reality with new devices coming next year .”
5G also offers network slicing - the ability to separate traffic in busy parts of the network to offer higher levels of quality of service or higher levels of security , depending on the application that ' s required and network ’ s licencing . Petty adds : “ We ' ll create a whole range of new services from speed boosts for consumers to specific applications for smart factories , autonomous vehicles and security services . Another big benefit of 5G is MEC . We ' ve launched a really exciting partnership with AWS that lets customers take workloads
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