Free D Group's largest enterprise contract is a $7M Korean smart city
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Abel Zhao, CEO of Free D Group, breaks down enterprise contract sizes and specifies the company's largest single project to Nathan Latka.
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“And then there's a big guys out there. So the governments or telcos or airports and stuff like that, that could actually go from a 100,000 dollars to all the way to seven million dollars per project. That's basically the largest one we have, which is a smart city project in Korea.”
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