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SAMENA Council’s Leadership & Excellence Awards in Digital-development
Concluded with 34 Recognitions Given Across 4 Regions

networks for industries and child online
protection; and business milestones, such
as business acquisition strategies and
mobile finance solutions were identified
with accolades.

SAMENA LEADs serve as a platform to
recognize regulatory achievements, actions
and approaches that are supporting the
private sector and enabling sustainable
investment avenues. Moreover, SAMENA
LEAD awards help foster and propagate
new best practices and inspire similar
successes in neighboring regions while
enabling both businesses and regulators
to create new cross-border synergies and
opportunities for growth. In the words
of Bocar BA, CEO & Board Member of
SAMENA Council, “SAMENA Leadership &
Excellence Awards in Digital-development
SAMENA Telecommunications Council The 2024 edition of the SAMENA LEAD are designed to identify key strengths,
successfully held its second edition of awards highlighted and recognized and how every company-level greatness
the SAMENA Leadership and Excellence advanced ICT success in the region, includ- can be harnessed to achieve equally great
Awards in Digital-development (“SAMENA ing but not limited to 5G&5G-Advanced milestones at the ecosystem level”.
LEADs”) on October 15th at the One&Only development, optical fiber broadband,
Royal Mirage, Dubai, UAE. SAMENA datacom, cloud-based transformation, Since 2018, there has been much progress
LEADs recognized telecom operators and and mobile finance. LEADs also recognized made on fifth-generation mobile network
regulators across South Asia, the Middle and promoted development and success deployment in the region, with Operators
East, North Africa, and Central Asia in achieved in monetizing 5G&5G-Advanced having achieved significant milestones and
the categories of Innovation Excellence, investments through the adoption of Fixed Regulatory Authorities having supported
Business Leadership, User Experience Wireless Access technology. Various tech- market and technology development as
Delivery, Fixed Wireless Access Success, nologies, including cloud transformation, well as customer-centric service offerings
and Regulatory Enablement. IPv6-Enhanced implementation; regula- through impressive new initiatives that
tory enablement, as regards, for example, support the market and the end-user.

The following entities were awarded SAMENA LEAD awards in 34 unique strength areas, carefully assessed by SAMENA Council across
the LEAD award categories:

• TDRA UAE • stc KSA • Omantel
• TRA Bahrain • Zain Kuwait • e& UAE
• CMC Iraq • Beeline Uzbekistan • Uztelecom JSC
• TRA Oman • Vodafone Qatar • Ooredoo Kuwait
• CRA Qatar • PTCL • stc KSA
• NTRA Egypt • du Pay • CMPak (Zong)
• PTA Pakistan • Omantel • Zain Group
• CST Saudi Arabia • stc Bahrain • PMCL (Jazz)
• Zain Group • du • Zain Jordan
• e& UAE • stc Kuwait • Zain KSA
• Kazakhtelecom JSC • stc Group
• Mobily • Mobily

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