Makkah, May 9, 2020, SPA -- Undersecretary for Technology and Digital Capacity Development, at the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology Dr. Ahmed Al-Thinayyan said here today that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) ranks 4th in the world, in terms of 5G technology and ranks 10th in terms of Internet speed. The Kingdom is only preceded by the US, South Korea and China, in using 5G, he added, pointing out that the Kingdom has achieved a quantum leap, in terms of Internet speed, in particular, as it frog leaped from 150th to 10th, and in digital transformation, in general, a fact that proven by the spread of optic-fibers benefiting over 3 million households, in the Kingdom, which is another indicator to the Kingdom's robust and vivid digital infrastructure. --SPA 21:52 LOCAL TIME 18:52 GMT 0018 www.spa.gov.sa/w1324821