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Sultan Albalooshi

MANAGER SPECTRUM POLICY Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of the UAE

Sultan Albalooshi is currently Manager Spectrum Policy at the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) of the United Arab Emirates. He has more than ten years of professional work experience in ICT sector counting works on radio communication strategies and spectrum policies.

Sultan has been putting various efforts to develop and review regulations and policies related to spectrum management by setting the review plans, working on their implementation, and conducting public consultations and associated workshops with ICT sector stakeholders in the UAE. Additionally, he has been representing the UAE in International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Radiocommunications Sector Study groups’ meetings and in various GCC, Arab, International ICT and Spectrum related meetings.

Also, Sultan is chairing the UAE International Mobile Telecommunications 2020 (IMT-2020) Spectrum Committee within the UAE 5G Committee since 2017 in addition to chairing the Working Group on Technologies development and standards within Arab Spectrum Management Group (ASMG). Moreover, he is a member of different UAE national committees for: Telecoms Emergency, Enabling 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) in UAE, Civil UAS and Autonomous Vehicles.