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TRA UAE Publishes List of Approved Telecom Devices on Its Website

The Telecommunications Regulatory standards. The list will help customers approved by TRA. Saif Bin Ghelaita,
Authority, TRA, has announced the launch about the devices that have been approved Director of Technology Development
of a special page on its website that and tested with the networks of service Affairs, said, "TRA strives to ensure that the
includes all the approved telecom devices providers in the country. It also helps telecom devices in the UAE are compatible
in the UAE, allowing customers to check public and private entities to ensure that with the approved technical standards of
their compatibility with the technical the suppliers' offers contain devices TRA’s Type Approval System, with the aim
of ensuring access to the best services
and full compatibility with the networks
operating in the UAE. "Due to the large
number and diversity of these devices,
TRA launched a special page that includes
all TRA approved devices, which allows
consumers to ensure that the telecom
devices have been approved by TRA before
purchasing them, through checking on
TRA approved devices webpage, and
making sure that the devices they want to
buy are enlisted among approved devices."
The TRA page includes more than
15,000 devices, including mobile phones,
computers and their accessories, tablets,
transmitters and other devices that are
used in the field of ICT.

Bahrain Has Potential to Become Mideast ICT Hub

Bahrain has the adequate infrastructure, increasing demand locally and regionally ties to establish an incubator or business
advanced legislation and financial re- for these technologies and we anticipate accelerator in Bahrain dedicated to ad-
sources to become the region's leading high expectations for their revenues to vanced information technologies such as
ICT hub, according to an expert. There is grow significantly," he added. As Bahrain artificial intelligence and robotics, as these
increasing demand locally and regional- moves towards digital transformation and new technologies provide entrepreneurs
ly for these technologies and we antici- building a knowledge economy, advanced with innovative ways to add value to their
pate high expectations for their revenues information systems appear as one of the activities and open a new era for emerging
to grow significantly, stated Yaqoob Al most essential features of the 4th industri- companies. He also urged Bahraini youth
Awadhi, the CEO of NGN International, a al revolution, said the ICT expert. "We can to take up robotics as career. Downplaying
full-fledged systems integrator and IT reproduce advanced technologies in AI, the fear of linking the expansion of using
consultant based in Bahrain. He pointed robotics, big data, blockchain, biotechnol- robots and the high level of unemploy-
out that the kingdom had enough potential ogy, nanotechnology, three-dimensional ment, Al Awadhi said: "Robotics industry
to become an advanced center in the field printing, and the Internet of things and uti- will provide qualitative job opportunities
of industry, development, programming, lize them in diverse sectors," observed Al for Bahrainis in the fields of programming,
and application of information systems in Awadhi. He pointed out that the kingdom AI, and other systems." "Modern technolo-
the region, depending on its national cad- had at one point been able to embrace gies will impose themselves into our busi-
res that has the ability to learn and inno- the financial banking industry and devel- ness either we approve it or not, and it is
vate. "Bahrain have the adequate ICT in- op it until it became a pioneer in the field. more proper for us to be proactive in bene-
frastructure, advanced legislation, and the "Similarly, it can be the leader in the field fiting from them and integrating them into
presence of financial resources to ensure of robotics industry whose market size is our lives and encourage our youth to deal
its dominance in regional and even global estimated at billions of dollars around the with," he added.
competition," noted Al Awadhi. "There is world," he added. He called upon authori-

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