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THE difficult times of the Covid-19 pandemic have demonstrated the critical importance that telecommunications infrastructure plays in keeping businesses, governments and societies connected and running. Despite all the global challenges, the industry showed resilience in recent years, as reflected by the sector's increasing gross value-added contribution to the economy.
With a focus on the mobile market, the government is pushing for improvements in the industry's performance, including plans to create a Common Tower Policy that will delist the telecom sector as a public utility. A 5G network was introduced at the beginning of 2020, and mobile network operators have started offering this technology to their customers.
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