SAMENA Telecommunications Council successfully held its second edition of the SAMENA Leadership and Excellence Awards in Digital-development (“SAMENA LEADs”) on October 15th at the One&Only Royal Mirage, Dubai, UAE. SAMENA LEADs recognized telecom operators and regulators across South Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia in the categories of Innovation Excellence, Business Leadership, User Experience Delivery, Fixed Wireless Access Success, and Regulatory Enablement.
The 2024 edition of the SAMENA LEAD awards highlighted and recognized advanced ICT success in the region, including but not limited to 5G&5G-Advanced development, optical fiber broadband, datacom, cloud-based transformation, and mobile finance. LEADs also recognized and promoted development and success achieved in monetizing 5G&5G-Advanced investments through the adoption of Fixed Wireless Access technology. Various technologies, including cloud transformation, IPv6-Enhanced implementation; regulatory enablement, as regards, for example, networks for industries and child online protection; and business milestones, such as business acquisition strategies and mobile finance solutions were identified with accolades.
SAMENA LEADs serve as a platform to recognize regulatory achievements, actions and approaches that are supporting the private sector and enabling sustainable investment avenues. Moreover, SAMENA LEAD awards help foster and propagate new best practices and inspire similar successes in neighboring regions while enabling both businesses and regulators to create new cross-border synergies and opportunities for growth. In the words of Bocar BA, CEO & Board Member of SAMENA Council, “SAMENA Leadership & Excellence Awards in Digital-development are designed to identify key strengths, and how every company-level greatness can be harnessed to achieve equally great milestones at the ecosystem level”.
Since 2018, there has been much progress made on fifth-generation mobile network deployment in the region, with Operators having achieved significant milestones and Regulatory Authorities having supported market and technology development as well as customer-centric service offerings through impressive new initiatives that support the market and the end-user.
The following entities were awarded SAMENA LEAD awards in 34 unique strength areas, carefully assessed by SAMENA Council across the LEAD award categories:
TRA Bahrain
CMC Iraq
TRA Oman
CRA Qatar
NTRA Egypt
PTA Pakistan
CST Saudi Arabia
Zain Group
e& UAE
Kazakhtelecom JSC
Mobily
stc KSA
Zain Kuwait
Beeline Uzbekistan
Vodafone Qatar
PTCL
du Pay
Omantel
stc Bahrain
du
stc Kuwait
stc Group
Mobily
Omantel
e& UAE
Uztelecom JSC
Ooredoo Kuwait
stc KSA
CMPak (Zong)
Zain Group
PMCL (Jazz)
Zain Jordan
Zain KSA
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Source: SAMENA Council Press release