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Convergence to Bahrain 2020: 5G & IoT and the Regional

Digital Vision

SAMENA Council and TRA Bahrain Collaborate to Congregate the Regional
ICT Industry in Bahrain

SAMENA Telecommunications Council, in for exchanging insights on key IoT trends including market-specific monetization
collaboration with TRA-Bahrain, held its and use-cases that are made possible with opportunities available to operators going
first Convergence to Bahrain conference 5G network deployments and to draw focus beyond traditional data packages.
in February at the Four Seasons Hotel in on the role that operators can and should
Manama. Convergence to Bahrain 2020 take in leading the way in 5G-enabled IoT Chairman of SAMENA Council, Eng.
brought together leading private-sector applications and digital services in regional Nasser Sulaiman Al Nasser, stc Group CEO,
industry players across the Terrestrial, as well as specific country contexts, drew attention to the fact that roll-out of
Satellite, and Technology domains and
regionally renowned top executives to the
conference.

The Convergence to Bahrain conference
was attended by telecoms and ICT
industry leaders from around the MENA
region and consisted of a variety of panel
discussions, focusing on regional 5G
implementation, technology use-cases
for the terrestrial and satellite industry
in the 5G space, including IoT, financing
models to aid 5G investments and network
implementation, and open discussion
steered toward understanding the future
of 5G connectivity, collaboration, and
regulation. The Conference was an effort

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