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                                                 20  REGIONAL & MEMBERS UPDATES
                                                         Members News

                                                         Regional News
                                                 58  SATELLITE UPDATES
                                                         Satellite News

                                                 71  WHOLESALE UPDATES                      stc Kuwait Speaks to SAMENA
                                                         Wholesale News                     Council

                                                 76  TECHNOLOGY UPDATES                  SAMENA COUNCIL ACTIVITY
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       mmunications  Council (SAMENA Council).   80  REGULATORY & POLICY UPDATES
       Information in the TRENDS is  not intended       Regulatory News
       to serve  as a professional services advice.
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       Council (unless  otherwise noted, described
       or stated) and cannot be reproduced, copied      Regulatory Activities
       or printed in any form without  the express      Beyond the SAMENA Region              “SAMENA Accelerator - UBBF”
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                                                 43  Open RAN to Create an Evolution in
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       the SAMENA TRENDS by any entity or entities
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