The Comm. Decisive Dozen 2024 list reflects resilience and blossoming imagination of the MEA telco market

The Comm. Decisive Dozen 2024 list reflects resilience and blossoming imagination of the MEA telco market

- The full-year 2023 saw bold strategic moves taken across the Middle East and Africa by services providers as they worked to maintain competitive positions in the face of the rise of disruptive emerging technologies

Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Johannesburg, South Africa – United Arab Emirates-based premier telecom, media, and technology (TMT) strategic information consultancy, Pursuit Mode Initiatives, publisher of the Comm. Decisive Dozen, has disclosed its latest ranking of the Middle East and Africa’s (MEA) most effective telco executive leaders in 2023.

The annual list seeks to identify the top 12 service provider leaders based on the subjective interpretation of strategic decisions taken during 2023, with the wider impact, repercussions, and context of such decisions on the organisations’ operating environment being taken into consideration in weighting the executives’ effectiveness over the period.

Comm. Decisive Dozen was first published in 2011, and has been considered a bellwether for the impact and context of major strategic developments in the MEA telecom market ever since. In the latest compilation of the ranking, 2023 reflects a year in which service providers from across the region exhibited immense maturity in opportunities they pursued and those they decided not to.

An assessment of market and geo-political factors, for