The Eastern Economic Corridor Office (EECO) plans to establish a 5G special zone in Rayong’s Ban Chang district by the end of this year to serve new S-curve industries and lure global tech giants to the area with incentives.
The zone is to be developed as a new smart city embedded with 5G solutions and innovation technology.
Several large tech multinationals have expressed interest in investing in the zone, including Xiaomi, Huawei, Cisco and VMware, said Kanit Sangsubhan, the EECO’s secretary-general.
The EECO and state telecom enterprise TOT on Monday signed a three-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) for cooperation on telecom infrastructure installation under an…