SAMENA Council’s Leadership & Excellence Awards in Digital Development Concluded with 34 Recognitions Given across 4 Regions
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 17 October 2024 – SAMENA Telecommunications Council successfully held its second edition of the SAMENA Leadership and Excellence Awards in Digital Development (“SAMENA LEADs”) on October 15that, the One&Only Royal Mirage, Dubai, UAE. SAMENA LEADs recognized telecom operators and regulators across South Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia in Innovation Excellence, Business Leadership, User Experience Delivery, Fixed Wireless Access Success, and Regulatory Enablement.
The 2024 edition of the SAMENA LEAD awards highlighted and recognized advanced ICT success in the region, including but not limited to 5G and 5G advanced development, optical fiber broadband, datacom, cloud-based transformation, and mobile finance. LEADs also recognized and promoted development and success in monetizing 5G and 5G-Advanced investments by adopting Fixed Wireless Access technology. Various technologies, including cloud transformation, IPv6-enhanced implementation, regulatory enablement about networks for industries and child online protection, and business milestones, such as business acquisition strategies and mobile finance solutions, were identified with accolades.
At the SAMENA LEAD Awards 2024, Richard Liu, President of ICT Marketing and Solution Sales at Huawei, honored telecom pioneers and highlighted the crucial role of regional governments in advancing 5G, AI, and digital transformation. He reaffirmed Huawei’s commitment to collaborating with operators to boost the Middle East’s global ICT standing. “The pioneering initiatives in 5G, AI, and digital transformation by the regional carriers are helping to boost the entire region’s economy and advancing the transformation goals,” said Liu.
SAMENA LEADs serve as a platform to recognize regulatory achievements, actions, and approaches that support the private sector and enable sustainable investment avenues. Moreover, SAMENA LEAD awards help foster and propagate new best practices and inspire similar successes in neighboring regions while allowing businesses and regulators to create new cross-border synergies and opportunities for growth. Commenting on the awards, Bocar BA, CEO & Board Member of SAMENA Council, said, “SAMENA Leadership & Excellence Awards in Digital Development are designed to identify key strengths and showcase how a company’s greatness can be harnessed to achieve equally great milestones at the ecosystem level.”
Since 2018, much progress has been made on fifth-generation mobile network deployment in the region. Operators have achieved significant milestones, and regulatory authorities have supported market and technology development as well as customer-centric service offerings through impressive new initiatives that support the market and the end-user.
