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CEO - SAMENA Council Highlights New Trends

Thriving with Resilience & Integration in the New Opportunity Realm

CEO – SAMENA Council shares his views on new network
trends, technology integration, sustainability, and what this
year’s leaders’ congregation, the Leaders’ Summit 2022, is
expected to bring forth.

Q. What are some key considerations for thriving in the new
digital era?
A. The post-pandemic world is driven by the urgency
in co-operation between the world's Private and Public
sectors, and there is a greater need to pursue integration
of technologies, digital infrastructure, policy and regulatory
approaches, and business models.
Times are calling for revamping cost
structures, embracing new technologies
such as cloud communications, AI, IoT, Big
Data analytics, new mobile applications,
enabling sustainable investment in the
fifth-generation of mobile technologies,
and, importantly, engaging in smart
partnerships.

Times are calling for revamping cost structures, embracing
new technologies such as cloud communications, AI,
IoT, Big Data analytics, new mobile applications, enabling
sustainable investment in the fifth-generation of mobile
technologies, and, importantly, engaging in smart
partnerships. On the latter front, recent initiatives such as
the ITU’s Partner2Connect (P2C), built on the principles
of inclusion, partnership, and SDG-focused digital
development, are important to consider and contribute to.
It’s the age of metaverse, and it requires transformational
steps to be taken on wide scale.
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Q. What do you consider to be among the newest disruptions CEO & Board Member
taking place within the Telecom Industry?
A. Connectivity requirements for the new decade and new SAMENA Telecommunications Council
network trends and associated challenges are prevalent
within the Industry. Concurrently, innovations are surfacing
at a great speed, such as OpenRAN, which represents a
combination of existing technologies, e.g., virtualization,
AI, commercial off-the-shelf parts and open interfaces. It
proposes an alternative way to design and build the RAN
portion of a mobile network by combining hardware and

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