Batelco in deal for Egypt GPRS Posted: Thursday, June 22, 2006
Manama
Batelco has announced a new bi-lateral commercial GPRS roaming service with MobileNil in Egypt, which is great news for the huge number of Bahrain’s residents who visit this important business and tourist destination annually.
The new service which was launched earlier this month gives Batelco Mobile users better than ever coverage whilst roaming in Egypt.
The bi-lateral agreement enables Batelco’s post-paid mobile customers who have GPRS/MMS enabled handsets to exchange pictures and video clips with colleagues, family and friends and also access the internet directly from their mobiles while roaming in Egypt.
“This convenient new service will allow tourists to share the excitement of their vacation with their family and friends at home and give business travellers greater access to their offices,” said Batelco corporate affairs general manager Ahmed Al Janahi.
“Batelco continually looks at ways to add extra benefits for their customers and this new bi-lateral agreement fits perfectly with this policy.”
Batelco (Bahrain Telecommunications Company) is Bahrain’s leading provider of national and international telecommunications services, internet and broadband products & services and networked IT services.
In Bahrain, Batelco serves more than 600,000 business and residential customers while the company’s Joint Ventures in Jordan, Kuwait and Egypt serve the needs of an increasing body of customers in the Mena region.
Batelco operates 16 Call Centres, located throughout Bahrain, featuring state-of-the-art product displays and a full range of retail services to give customers a one-stop-shop for all their communications needs.
In 2005, Batelco poured BD5 million into the community through a raft of charitable donations and sponsorships.
By acting as the digital backbone of Bahrain, Batelco contributes significantly to the local economy and is a major player in putting Bahrain on the world map. TradeArabia News Service