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Volume 09, July, 2018 A SAMENA Telecommunications Council Newsletter www.samenacouncil.org SAMENA TRENDS EXCLUSIVELY FOR SAMENA TELECOMMUNICATIONS COUNCIL'S MEMBERS BUILDING DIGITAL ECONOMIES VIVA’s Analytics Transformation 35 Nokia: Building Critical Communications Netw- orks for Aviation... 46 Interview Eng. Ahmed El Beheiry Managing Director and CEO Telecom Egypt THIS MONTH DATA ANALYTICS & MONETIZATION Durban 10-13 September BETTER SOONER Accelerating ICT innovation to improve lives faster. The global event for governments, corporates and tech SMEs. 10-13 September 2018, Durban, South Africa ITU Telecom World 2018 is the global platform to accelerate ICT innovations for social and economic development. It’s where policy makers and regulators meet industry experts, investors, SMEs, entrepreneurs and innovators to exhibit solutions, share knowledge and speed change. Our aim is to help ideas go further, faster to make the world better, sooner. 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CBASAT Print Ad A4.indd 1 4/24/18 7:09 PM EDITORIAL SAMENA TRENDS Data Analytics & Monetization As Industry, we have fully realized the value of As we work aggressively toward mastering use data and analytics, and the changes the use cases for 5G, it is essential to realize that data of data has brought forth in how Operators analytics will be fundamental to 5G proliferation, introduce and improve upon existing business and especially in view of what network slicing functions - including but not limited to sales and will make possible for us. Interestingly also is customer care functions. Thus transformation the fact that data analytics would be integral due to the use of data is now an established to resolving network congestions, telecom reality. equipment faults, network traffic issues, among However, making measurable, beneficial many other challenges. Notably, 5G’s potential impact on businesses as well as on the to create a sustainable digital society, speed human, in general, using data effectively and up connections, allowing implementation and efficiently does remain a challenge. Not many easier use of virtual reality and augmented organizations have so far achieved major reality, providing improved connectivity and Bocar A. BA financial impact or can claim to have realized low-latency based communications, and to Chief Executive Officer & Board significant progress. Why is that so? The answer accelerate deployment of enterprise-centric Member lies in seeking and being able to achieve the right technologies, including of IoT products, to SAMENA Telecommunications balance between the organizational priorities name a few, will only be made possible with Council toward adapting to change, willingness for and strong data analytics capabilities and will be speed of digital transformation, policy support, complemented by effective data monetization overall organizational and market culture, and strategies. Such monetization from data, an effective data strategy, which should be which can happen either through direct human-centric while exploiting a myriad of data monetization strategies, which majorly revolve analytics and data motif analysis technologies around sharing data that already exists in one that exist out there. form or another, or by transforming data into While the current focus (and visible impact) useful insights and predictable patterns, may of data analytics appears to be centered on help dramatically improve not only service distribution, services, financial services, and provisioning but may altogether transform how other such areas where it is relatively simpler communication needs of the human user are to conduct data analyses, the scope of data catered for. analytics has to expand to more advanced and more meaningful real-time analysis Granted that the the focus for Operators now is and predictions. The scale of competition not only on optimizing costs of service delivery and necessity of growth and larger impact, but also on delivering elevated, new digital especially with respect to sector-wide customer experience through new products endeavors toward harnessing ICTs to achieve an digital services, while also revamping their global sustainability agenda, require that focus central role toward societal transformation on data and use of analytics technologies be and creating new possibilities in public- accelerated. Starting with revenue prospects, private initiatives, it is essential that efforts to the ultimate goal is to capitalize on data, which strategize data use and monetization be sped has already become clichéd as the “new oil”. up. The long-term sustainability of our Industry So it is becoming evident how the new digital will have effective and meaningful use of data global economy will be functioning in the and its protection at its foundation. emerging future, most optimistically so, in the 5G era. 5 JULY 2018 INTERVIEW SAMENA TRENDS Q. How is Telecom Egypt contributing to the development of fiber networks infrastructure in the country? A. For the past several years, Telecom Egypt has directed its investments to fiber networks rather than traditional copper networks. Telecom Egypt has also deployed an extensive multi- service access network rollout plan to transform its legacy access copper network to a modern access network fully backhauled with fiber. As the fiber footprint is extended, multiple services and applications are being delivered over this access network including residential and enterprise services as well as emerging opportunities such as Wi-Fi backhauling and small cell front haul. The virtually unlimited bandwidth and capacity of fiber provides the platform for convergence. Fiber backhauling guarantees excellent service quality to meet the data revolution and growth in customers’ demand. Telecom Egypt has 18,000 km of fiber deployed on the access network that connect 52% of the total households as of end of 2017 and we plan to reach 72% by end of 2018. In addition to deploying FTTH in green field areas and new closed compounds side-by-side to massive rollout of fiber transmission paths that serve core networks & business extensions all over Egypt, Telecom Egypt had deployed around 35k FTTH links in 59 urban community projects till end of 2017 and plans to reach to 85K FTTH link by end of 2018. Q. What will 5G enable in the hands of people, businesses, and society as a whole, and