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Al-Nasser Urges for 5G Adoption across Industries to Revive the

Economy and Renew Investments Plans

stc group CEO and Chairman SAMENA
Council, Nasser Al-Nasser calls CITC
leaders to work closely together on
addressing present-day challenges, and
to make full use of future opportunities,
while staying safe and remaining
optimistic about the future, while facing
challenging in the industry. He confirm
that 5G adoption across various sectors
and industries to revive the economy and
renew investment planning, “adopting
5G is an opportunity to reap is timely
benefits across all industries that are
at the forefront of our socio-economic
recovery efforts, following the debilitating
effects of the pandemic”. He said, in his
keynote speech among the public and
private-sector leaders, congregated by leaders need to accelerate cooperation- helpful. Chairman of SAMENA Council,
SAMENA Council, in SAMENA Council’s building, which require unprecedented Nasser Al-Nasser Added: “emergency
Leaders’ Summit 2020, under the title: "5G level of mutual engagement, participation, decisions taken over the past six months
+ X: Harnessing 5G across Industries for collective wisdom, and exchange of have indeed laid a foundation for a 5G
Investment Revival,. “This certainly is a expertise. The COVID-19 pandemic has Cultural Shift, with all necessary mindsets,
new digital communication experience for shown clearly what the availability of practices, capabilities, attitudes required
all of us, and I, as Chairman of SAMENA telecom networks does to contribute to be in place for treading the next decade
Council, hope that this would prove to be a to better managing and living through of connectivity and connectedness,
worthwhile effort, given the complexity of the tough times. Apart from quick until we fulfill the Connect 2030 global
this leadership event, which is being held reactionary responses and measures agenda. The new 5G networks promise a
with the esteemed patronage of the TRA taken by Telecom Operators with respect multitude of life-changing smart solutions
UAE”. Al-Nasser Said. In addition to the to ensuring connectivity and quality-of- across a spectra of tasks and roles. It is
many challenges COVID-19 has presented, service, COVID-19 applications to track therefore essential to understand how 5G
Al-Nasser reaffirmed that CITC industry & trace new infections have been very and various allied technologies, including,
AI, Big Data Analytics, Cloud, IoT, among
others, can impact and change our
societies and how they can be meaningfully
and constructively introduced to benefit
all stakeholders in an inclusive manner.
The collaboration required between CITC
leaders include well- responses among
Operators and Regulators, including
the release of additional spectrum on
temporary bases to ensure sufficient
network capacity. He explained: “The
implementation of extensions of deadlines
on a temporary basis and the facilitation
of license renewals for vital digital service
providers; temporary loosening of traffic
management rules and prioritization of
critical digital services over the non-critical
content, clearly demonstrate”.

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