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Traditional telcos have paid and continue
to pay billions of dollars annually for the
roll out and maintenance of the ‘broadband
highways’ over which digital services are
transported. Thus believe they should also
participate in the value is creation

We also entered into a strategic collaboration with NeXgen
Group, a leading smart city advisory and consulting services
provider based in the UAE
types of companies have had on the
telecom sector?
One must give credit to innovation from
wherever it comes from. It is true that many
of the data applications that are responsible
for the growth in non-voice traffic being
sent across fixed and mobile broadband
networks were initially devised by Internet-centric developers and companies. As
the telecom industry we have no problem
with that, but given that we have paid and
continue to pay billions of dollars every
year for the roll out and maintenance of
infrastructure, IT equipment, and spectrum
we believe we should also participate in the
value is creation.

In a word, partnership is the way I see our
converged sector growing and prospering. I
believe the various st