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TRA UAE Awarded the Certified Innovation Organization by the Global

Innovation Institute

The Telecommunications innovative ideas, the innovation empowering TRA employees in the field of innovation.
Regulatory Authority (TRA) process, and innovative projects TRA has been keen to transform innovation into a practice,
announced that it has been awarded during the last three years until the culture and lifestyle. In this accelerating time, where
the Innovation Organization beginning of 2020. The evaluation developments are successive, innovation is no longer a
Certificate by the Global Innovation process also included innovation need for growth, but rather a necessity for survival. Today
Institute, after achieving the financing, innovation budget, we can say with confidence that survival is for those with
internationally approved conditions innovation organizational structure, innovative.” Al Kitbi added: “Awarding TRA this certificate
in this field, which places TRA one and others among the topics comes as an endorsement of its leadership in the field of
step away from reaching innovation related to adopting innovation in all innovation and future foresight. In TRA, we developed our
leadership. TRA’s achievement operations, functions and services plans and strategies for future foresight and innovation,
of this certificate is a result of provided by TRA. Commenting on in order to excel in one of the fastest developing sectors.
the great efforts made by TRA this achievement, Mohammad Al Today, we focus on innovation, future foresight, and their
innovation team in recent months, Kitbi, Director of Administration requirements, and implement them through innovative
which included training workshops, Affairs and Innovation CEO in TRA plans, developed and implemented by our trained and
development meetings and said: “In line with the directives of highly qualified national cadres. Today, we are proud of
procedures, as well as meetings the wise leadership to promote what we have achieved as we are only one step away from
with evaluators accredited by the innovation and future foresight reaching the leadership position in the field of innovation,
institute. The evaluation process in all government entities, TRA is which is the rank that will enable us to be evaluators of
assessed the innovation TRA’s committed to implementing the the level of innovation in various local, regional and global
strategy and policy, the innovation highest standards of innovation, bodies.” Through adoption of innovation, TRA aims to
objectives and their alignment enhancing and promoting the provide advanced and new ICT services to enhance
with the innovation policy, training culture of innovation in the the smart lifestyle in the UAE, develop ICT innovation
workshops, innovative individuals, institutional work environment, and competencies, and contribute to strengthening the
UAE's position as an intellectual leader in the field
of enabling innovation in the ICT sector. TRA works
according to a comprehensive methodology to enhance
innovation in all sectors that fall within its responsibility.
TRA has developed a special policy that serves 11
innovation-related topics: open data, VR technologies,
Internet of things, smart city technologies, artificial
intelligence, future generations of communications,
cyber technologies, Arab digital technology, blockchain,
robotics, and advanced data analysis. The UAE has
achieved leading positions in the Arab region in the Global
Innovation Index 2019, as innovation is a component of
the national pillars of the UAE Vision 2021, under the title
United in Knowledge, which seeks to achieve a diversified
and flexible knowledge economy led by skilled Emirati
competencies, and reinforced by the best experiences to
ensure long-term prosperity for the UAE and its people.

UAE Telecom Subscribers Top 21.8 Million

The number of subscribers in telecom- in the number of mobile phone subscribers to 2.127 million from 2.125 in July, which
munications services in the UAE, includ- to 16.685 million at the end of the month, a indicates a rise from 23.6 to 23.75 lines
ing mobile phones, landlines and Inter- growth of 206,000 from 16.479 million from per 100 people. In the meantime, the total
net, grew to 21.808 million by the end of July. Pre-paid mobile phone subscriptions number of internet subscriptions slight-
August, 1 percent up compared to the totaled 13.107 million, while post-paid ly declined to 2.996 million from 3 million
preceding month. The latest statistics re- mobile phone subscriptions stood at 3.578 in July, with all subscriptions conducted
leased by the Telecommunications Regu- million at the end of the reference month. through broadband services.
latory Authority, TRA, indicated an increase Landline subscriptions likewise increased

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