SAMENA Council

☀️ Jazz & @Huawei deploy solar power across 1,000 telecom sites in Pakistan — 13MW total capacity generating 11GWh of clean energy annually and cutting 15,000 tons of carbon emissions per year. #Jazz #Huawei

🤝 @Cisco appoints Pete Shimer to its Board of Directors — bringing 40 years of Deloitte leadership experience, including roles as COO, CFO & interim CEO, to support Cisco's AI infrastructure strategy. #Cisco #BoardNews

📶 UAE launches the world's first commercial Upper 6GHz network — announced at SAMENA Leaders' Summit 2026, with TDRA, e&, du, Huawei & Nokia committing to the ecosystem targeting 10Gbps 5G-A speeds nationwide. #UAE #U6GHz

Last week’s @SAMENAcouncil Leaders Summit 2026 - held in Dubai, UAE, the home of our headquarters - was a powerful reminder that connectivity, and the services we build on top of it, is not just infrastructure but a lifeline. The essential nature of our services get further underscored at times of uncertainty when millions of lives and livelihoods rely on communication services. At the SAMENA Leaders Summit, the ICT ecosystem convened in Dubai to discuss how we navigate transformative changes across networks, digital services and AI - and how we stay responsive to the evolving needs of the societies that we serve. We were honored to join the discussion on #SovereignAI and its meaning for the UAE and our broader region, sharing how VEON Group companies build a sovereign, relevant and authentically local solutions powered by Augmented Intelligence #AI1440

🌐 @ZTEPress helps Peru's MiFibra deploy 10G PON at scale — enabling 2Gbps & 5Gbps broadband packages for 20,000+ subscribers, earning Ookla's top awards for fastest, most consistent & top-rated fixed network in Peru & Latin America. #ZTE #Broadband

📶 @Cisco's inaugural State of Wireless Report reveals Wi-Fi has become a strategic growth engine — with organizations using AI-driven automation saving 3+ hours per person daily, but 98% reporting rising network complexity. #Cisco #WiFi

📊 @Huawei releases its 2025 Annual Report: CNY 880.9B in revenue & CNY 68B net profit, with CNY 192.3B invested in R&D — 21.8% of revenue — as the company accelerates AI, cloud & HarmonyOS ecosystem growth. #Huawei #AnnualReport

🤝 @stc_bhr CEO Eng. Khaled Al Osaimi leads post-Eid field visits across retail branches & operational teams — reinforcing frontline engagement and ensuring service continuity during peak periods. #stcBahrain #EidMubarak

📶 UAE launches a commercial Upper 6GHz ecosystem at SAMENA Leaders' Summit 2026 — uniting TDRA, e&, du, Huawei, Nokia & GSMA to enable 10Gbps 5G-A speeds, with 80% population coverage targeted by 2028. #SAMENA #U6GHz

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🌍🛰️ @GSOA_SAT joined @SAMENAcouncil Leaders Summit, sharing insights on TN/NTN convergence. 📡 #Satellite fills connectivity gaps, 🤝 #partnerships are key, 🚀 #WRC27 is critical for #D2D, and ⚖️ enabling #regulation is essential to scale global #connectivity. #satellite4life

📡 SAMENA Leaders' Summit 2026 convenes at Atlantis The Palm, Dubai — uniting telecom, tech & policy leaders on 5G-A, Sovereign AI, spectrum governance & satellite-terrestrial convergence for the region's digital future. #SAMENA #LS2026

Upper 6 GHz is one of the most consequential spectrum decisions of this decade. The UAE is leading — and providers like @Huawei are critical to the emerging U6GHz ecosystem. #6GHz #Spectrum #Huawei #Connectivity

📶 AT&T extends 5G coverage to NYC's subway 4/5 & G lines — connecting Brooklyn riders from Court Square to Hoyt-Schermerhorn & Borough Hall to Fulton Street, with more underground expansion ahead. #ATT #NYC

🎓 @Huawei & @UNESCO launch a nationwide Open Schools rollout across Thailand — building on successful pilots in Buriram & Sisaket that equipped 10 schools with smart classrooms, benefiting 4,000 students & 150 teachers. #Huawei #DigitalEducation

🤝 @Cisco appoints Shane Heraty as VP & GM for Middle East, Africa, Türkiye, Romania & CIS — effective May 1, succeeding David Meads after 30 years of service. Heraty brings 20+ years of Cisco leadership experience. #Cisco #MEA

🚆 @EutelsatGroup expands its OneWeb LEO connectivity in the global rail market — delivering low-latency broadband across rural & cross-border routes for passengers & critical OT systems, with Kymeta & Hughes developing dedicated rail terminals. #Eutelsat #Rail

🔬 @ZTEPress earns dual Top-Scored Paper honors at OFC 2026 — achieving a record 1.2Tbps S-band silicon photonics transceiver & validating distributed LLM training across 3 AI data centers over 600km optical networks. #ZTE #OFC2026

🔐 @Cisco unveils major AI security innovations at RSA 2026 — introducing Zero Trust Access for AI agents, AI Defense Explorer Edition & an Agentic SOC with specialized AI agents to secure & govern the emerging AI workforce. #Cisco #RSA2026