Page 4 - SAMENA ELITE - October-December 2024

EDITORIAL
4 OCTOBER-DECEMBER 2024

Draft

FWA on a Path

to Growth

Bocar A. BA
Chief Executive Officer
& Board Member
SAMENA Telecommunications
Council

The Middle East region is leading on the 5G and user growth. In emerging markets, FWA, as
5G FWA fronts, as we will observe in this edition an affordable high-speed home broadband
of SAMENA ELITE, with Omantel and stc Bahrain access solution, helps operators quickly recover
sharing their views on FWA. This affirms a strong investment costs. In developed FWA markets such
business case for 5G FWA, and is becoming one of as the Middle East, FWA helps operators increase
the best services for operators to achieve business their market share and revenue. FWA has made
success in the 5G era. Industry findings show that remarkable contributions to digital inclusion by
pioneer operators are constantly driving revenue enabling more families to enjoy digital services,
growth from early FWA investments. Since the at the same, FWA enabling SME easier connection
commercial use of 5G in 2019, more than 50% of with 5G private line.
the world's 5G operators have put 5G FWA into
commercial use. Advancements such as 3 component carrier
aggregation (3CC) can allow Operators to
5G FWA is popular around the world due to its combine three different frequency bands to create
excellent experience, fast time to market, and low a much larger overall bandwidth, significantly
initial cost. In developed countries such as those increasing data transfer rates, and making 5G
in Europe, FWA and optical fibers are developed value-proposition much stronger. Moreover,
in a coordinated manner. FWA is deployed in advancements in terminal devices such as 5G
areas with less optical fibers to achieve rapid CPEs that support 3CC CA have been marketed,

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