Bocar BA, CEO of SAMENA Telecommunications Council and Chair of the ITU’s IAGDI-CRO, moderated a high-level session at GSMA M360 Eurasia 2025, held at the Intercontinental Tashkent. The session, titled “Igniting Mobile Investment: Strategies for Energizing the Digital Economy,” convened regional telecom leaders and regulators to explore investment strategies essential to driving inclusive digital transformation across the CIS region.
In his opening remarks, BA emphasized the urgency of resilient, inclusive infrastructure investment to unlock the region’s digital potential. “Digital infrastructure may be technical in nature, but the real outcome we’re pursuing is human: inclusion, dignity, and opportunity,” he noted.
The session spotlighted Uzbekistan’s accelerating digital progress and the broader CIS region’s $26 billion mobile investment trajectory through 2025. With mobile data traffic expected to triple by 2030, BA steered a timely discussion on aligning policy, public-private collaboration, and digital skills development to meet rising connectivity demands.
Featuring senior executives from Kazakhtelecom, Beeline Kazakhstan, Noctelecom, and Georgia’s ComCom, the dialogue explored:
In his closing remarks, BA reinforced a call to action: “We are not just building faster networks; we are building future-proof nations. Investment must follow purpose, and that purpose is equity, resilience, and shared digital prosperity.”
The session echoed GSMA M360 Eurasia’s broader mission: fostering collaboration between mobile operators, governments, and innovators to unlock the region’s digital future.