TRA discusses telecom tie-ups

Abu Dhabi /
Emirates Business

A high-level delegation from the UAE Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) held discussions during its participation at the recently concluded 27th meeting of the GCC Committee for Undersecretaries of Post and Telecommunications, in Riyadh. Topics covered partnerships in the telecommunications sector especially the recommendations issued by the Secretariat General regarding Post Office Agents Association and Telecommunication Regulation and Legislation Committee, Mobile Roaming Team, recommendations from the GCC Technical Committee for Telecommunications Bureau and the legislation and regulation teams of application services provided through the Internet. The delegates also presented key points in methods of developing joint collaboration initiatives between the GCC region and Jordan.
The delegation was led by HE Majed Al Mesmar, TRA Deputy Director General for the Telecommunications Sector, and accompanied by Engineer Tariq Al Awadhi, Executive Director Spectrum Management, Eng. Saleh Al Masabi, Director Spectrum Services and Sultan Al Madfaa from Emirates Post Group. Attendees during the meeting acknowledged the importance of having representatives from big companies in the region, pointing that representatives from social media companies and internet service providers in the UAE, clearly contributed in facilitating the smooth responses of requests coming from the GCC region.
HE Majed Sultan Al Mesmar, Deputy Director General for Telecommunications Sector in the TRA, said, “The UAE has placed great importance on key partnerships within the region’s telecommunications segment, mainly due to its shared goals, challenges and motivations. What the telecommunications segment needs is to further integrate the values of integrity and compatibility into its laws, legislations and regulations, in order to achieve the envisioned positive results, which includes the attainment of easy, sustainable and safe communications.”
H.E. Al Mesmar, stressed on the great importance of the meeting as an interactive GCC platform to discuss status and decisions of one of the most important sectors in country. He also noted that recommendations and suggestions made during the meeting should immediately be implemented in an ideal, safe and secure way, as well as aiming to achieve the set goals through the proper evaluation of proposed action plans, address challenges and facilitate a smooth exchange of knowledge and experience among countries.
“The meeting is a strategic way to monitor the status of decisions that have been recently implemented and review the various committees’ reports within all communication works, while also making unified decisions on timely issues depending on these reports. The continuous collaboration between UAE and GCC and the many achievements gained within the telecommunications and information technology sector, which has paved the way for healthy industry competition worldwide,” Al Mesmar added.
The participants proposed to develop postal services to support e-government services and e-commerce, also agreed on common procurement of supplies and equipment in the GCC, and decided to run a ‘ Gulf Express ‘ project through a trading company. Also agreed to include a number of innovative services project mainly Parcel and delivery Service at customers points, marketing to provide a basket of services and adopting price segments.