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Welcome to the first issue of CTU Newsletter. Connecting the Unconnected (CTU) or under-connected is the holy grail of transforming the lives of over 2.9 billion people around the globe with wireless Internet who are yet to experience its value in multiple ways. B5G leading to 6G is being discussed for societal impact to benefit all. IEEE Future Networks CTU Working Group (WG) endeavours to highlight the need to consider the CTU requirements in 5G and B5G networks in the standardization process, in the development of the use cases, and affordable solutions. In its Vision 2030 SDG, the United Nations has proclaimed access to the Internet as a basic human right and has said that these goals cannot be achieved without affordable access to the Internet by everyone on this planet. While there are numerous projects and initiatives ongoing around the world, these are fragmented and lack the critical mass and coordination to be able to impact the future standards, product development, and cost of deployment otherwise achievable by volume. This newsletter presents the scope of the CTU WG, provides a brief overview of the relevant stakeholders and linkages between them, and then goes into the current status of the CTU landscape and where we want to reach to accomplish the vision of connecting everybody, and ongoing global CTU competition and Summit launched by the Future Networks Technical Community (FNTC or FN) to motivate and commercialize the best concepts and solutions for potential deployment that will also be commercially sustainable. CTU WG has extended its activity through "Connect A Community" event that addresses the applicability of IEEE technologies for humanity.