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H.E. the governor of the communications and information technology commission, Dr. Mohammed Bin Saud Al-Tamimi, affirmed that the telecommunication sector in KSA is witnessing great stages of development and growth across various sectors with unlimited support from the government, as the sector has been receiving attention by H.R.H the Crown Prince, -May God Protect Him-. During his visit, H.E. praised stc Group’s pavilion participating at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, ​​for the efforts made by the group in provisioning the ICT sector, as well as the recent initiatives announced by stc of establishing a major digital center for the Middle East and North Africa, which enhances the Kingdom’s leadership in the ICT sector.

By Doug Suttles, CEO of Ookla

As CSPs deploy 5G, cloud and other technologies, they will need a digital-native BSS/OSS foundation to create new business value, support growth across the organization and deliver innovative monetization scenarios.

Atrebo is a European technology company with more than ten years of experience in the telecommunications infrastructure management sector. It has offices in Seville, Madrid, Oslo, São Paulo and soon, also in Asia.

As part of the Huawei Day 0 Forum: Lighting up the Future session on February 27, a day before the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2022 commences, Zain Saudi Arabia (Zain KSA) innovation and solutions executive general manager Alan Loh is among the esteemed speakers who graced the hybrid event. He spoke about the operator’s 5G journey and how they cater to their customers’ wish list to provide the best customer experience and continue innovating services.

A leading media and events player in the ICT industry, Telecom Review Group has proven to have a crucial role in today’s digital scene. Seventeen years ago, the first Telecom Review edition was published. Today, Telecom Review leading media platforms are covering 80% of the ICT global readership in English, French and Arabic, under the umbrella of Trace Media, with the Middle East and Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific, Arabia and North America editions.

The world’s largest and most influential connectivity event opened its doors at the Fira Gran Via in Barcelona. MWC22 Barcelona will build on the success of last year, reflecting on a new era of connectivity and collaboration across the mobile industry.

You walk into your office and look at your network PoR (Plan of Record) for the week. There are 40 software updates in your core network alone. Each of these must be installed and tested, then rolled into production- ensuring not a single dropped call as a result. Shudder to think what happens if the element goes down altogether! There are two net new network functions that need to be brought into operation – for which marketing has already created a campaign (that goes out this week of course!) with features that depend on these functions. Oh, and this happens to be the week that operator benchmarking is occurring in your region and you’ve been trying to chase down a recurring- but apparently mysterious- issue that is affecting jitter in video calls. Sound familiar!?

Operators have long been looking for ways to improve user experience and enhance utilization of expensive yet limited spectrum. More than ever, 5G poses big challenges to operators in delivering quality network and optimal user experiences, as it is more complex than previous generation technologies with more spectrum bands to leverage and more services to support. As a key infrastructure of the digital society, 5G network not only serves individual users, but also supports digital transformation across industries. Whereas, the evolution of radio resource management has been far behind that of radio access technologies due to much simpler service offering by previous technologies. Consequently, the increasingly diversified demands further deepened the contradiction between “one-fits-all” network policy and differentiated user experience requirements. It is therefore of great importance for operators to deliver user-centric experiences for industry applications and consumers within limited network resources.

By Bernard Najm, VP Telco MEA, AWS