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EDITORIAL
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                                                     FWA Service



                                                     and Device



                                                     Landscape



                 Bocar A. BA
                 Chief Executive Officer
                 & Board Member
                 SAMENA Telecommunications
                 Council


                Across all geographies, including the SA-ME-NA   connectivity and digital-economic growth, as well
                and Central Asia regions, and based on the      as digital inclusion, should be a top priority.
                observations of the FWA Elite Club members,
                scheduled to meet again by end-October 2024 in   It can be estimated that the number of FWA users
                Istanbul, Turkey, 5G FWA will continue to grow. This   could reach 400 million by the end of 2029, among
                is so not only because of the much higher speeds   which the number of 5G FWA users would exceed
                afforded by 5G FWA, but due to improvements     300 million.
                in customer premises equipment (CPE) design,
                among other factors, which we account for in this   The Middle East region is leading on the 5G and
                edition of SAMENA ELITE.                        5G FWA fronts, with operators leveraging their
                                                                accumulated experience in household telecom
                FWA adoption rate is over 50%, which means,     technologies, such as 4G WTTx, to make FWA
                since the commercial use of 5G in 2019, more than   as one of the key innovations to support 5G
                half of the world's 5G operators have put 5G FWA   expansion. All GCC operators have put 5G FWA
                into commercial use. This is a developing success   into commercial use and subscriptions have risen
                story within the ICT industry. For 5G, already   to 3 million users. Operators are actively exploring
                about two billion 5G connections are in existence,   high-bandwidth services, e.g., FWA 2B private
                presenting a solid case for FWA deployment.     lines, intelligent home broadband solutions,
                Leveraging this fixed high-speed broadband      and 5G CCTV applications, attracting a large
                technology to meet requirements for both        number of home and enterprise users. Moreover,




















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