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EDITORIAL SAMENA TRENDS

Evolving beyond Telecommunications

Since 2018, the journey of 5G development for transparent target-setting and strategic
has been a challenging one, especially in collaborations and initiatives, enabling
terms of investment, proving that those seamless M&A execution, and capturing
investments would be rightly made, better synergies within.
exploring the most impactful areas where
5G could make dramatic socio-economic Enhancing digital presence, relevance, and
impact, making regulatory adjustments, and growth in the era of 5G necessarily will be
overall transformation at the business level. centered on entering partnerships in cloud
computing and data centers, attending to
Key regional players such as e& have been the region’s socio-economic trends and
instrumental in creating confidence in 5G needs for economic diversification, network
service delivery, and for truly enabling and value-creation, and ICT integration into core
empowering digital transformation across industries and economic sectors.
the regional markets.
Given the new realities and challenges of
As digital transformation within the Industry the technologically evolving and disruptive Bocar A. BA
Chief Executive Officer
and within the teleco community carries business landscape, where expectations of & Board Member
on forward, our ambitions should indeed end-users, most of whom are less than 38 SAMENA Telecommunications
be synchronized, especially since we are years of age, are constantly evolving and Council
endeavoring sustainably operate and grow require advancements in infrastructure and
in the new 5G digital era. Fulfilling the 17 customer-experience delivery, hyperscaling
SDGs or achieving the 15 aspirational targets may be one strategic area to explore for
recently developed as part of the work of the digitally-transformed telecom operators
UN Secretary-General’s Roadmap for Digital and multi-network groups.
Cooperation Roundtable Group on Global
Connectivity, will depend on commitment While the region aims to tread the
from all of us to collaborate, partner, and challenging but rewarding path to economic
take decisive steps to ensure benefits of diversification and economic integration, for
connectivity are brought to all corners of the the private sector, diversification of revenue
society, and that an enabling environment streams and value-creation for partners
is guaranteed for the Private Sector to and customers, are core areas to focus on.
transform, grow, and thrive.
At the Gitex Global 2023 – the 43rd edition
In the case of e&, we have seen that of the leading regional and international
transformation in the 5G era really is tech event that will be hosted by the Dubai
about focusing on business verticals, World Trade Centre from October 16 to 20,
increasing organisational agility, allowing 2023.

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