This year, the theme of the Arab Regional Telecommunications Economic and Financial Forum will be « Affordability of Infrastructure, infrastructure sharing and connectivity »
The aim of The Forum was to foster affordable access to the digital world by providing concerned stakeholders with a platform to identify the appropriate policy, regulatory, technical and commercial measures to achieve affordable access to broadband access and services.
The forum discussed the following topics:
1. Affordable access to Broadband services
- Minimizing barriers to Broadband adoption
- Innovative investment models
- Infrastructure Sharing to promote Market Competition
- Economic and financial issues in a converged Broadband environment
- Costing methodologies, tariff policies for Broadband Services, and Significant Market Power (SMP) in the region - Experience from countries
- Challenges in the Digital Ecosystem
- Machine-to-machine, Internet of Things, Big Data, Cloud Computing and new business opportunities
