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Articles tagged with: Batelco
LogicaCMG has won a contract with Bahrain's batelco to upgrade its existing LogicaCMG mobile messaging platform to an IP-based Next Generation Messaging solution. In addition, batelco has selected LogicaCMG's Direct-delivery Message Router (DMR) to achieve flexible and cost-efficient SMS delivery on a single platform. batelco will be the first operator in the region to implement DMR within their SMS network. more
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Overview of the Jordanian Telecoms Market
Sailing into un-chartered regional telecom territory, Jordan leads the region in full telecom market liberalization. Jordan is now one of the regional pioneers in the full liberalization of the communications market. By end of 2004, the exclusivity of Jordan Telecom in the fixed market expired. The regulator liberalized the fixed PSTN and International Long Distance (ILD) services and started the licensing process of new operators. more
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The Oman telco, batelco has announed that the Sultanate of Oman has implemented a new numbering plan that changed the Fixed numbers from 6 to 8 digits and the Mobile numbers from 7 to 8 digits. The changes are illustrated in the following table:
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Calls to shut down Baghdad GSM network
The US lead authority in Iraq has apparently asked the Bahrain based batelco to shut down a small network it has set up in Baghdad. The company has reportedly invested around US$5 million building a network which has the capacity to handle 15,000 calls a day. It has set up five base stations, which handled 3,000 calls on the first day of operation. The network also has a roaming agreement with the company's home operation in Bahrain, making it much easier for GSM handset users to gain access to the network. more
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Kuwaiti network wins Bahrain license
Bahrain's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) has awarded the country's second GSM license to MTC Vodafone, in an action that breaks the monopoly currently enjoyed by batelco. more
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Bahrain not interested in 3G - jumps to WiFi
Bahrain's batelco is planning a trial of local WiFi service at Bahrain International Airport, a major shopping mall and a number of hotel lobbies, as an alternative to rolling out a 3G network. more
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Two phones - one number comes to Bahrain
The Bahrain GSM network, batelco has launched a new service that allows mobile users to operate two mobile phones with the same number. Such customers will no longer need to swap SIM cards between the two mobile sets or have two different numbers. more
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Bahrain users get free calls - due to billing fault
Bahrain's GSM network, batelco suffered a failure on its PrePay subscriber billing software on Friday last week. As a result some calls made on Friday night may not have been registered by the network - effectively giving the customers free phone calls. The fault was made worse as news spread about the billing problems and the network suffered congestion as people took advantage to made international phone calls. more
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Ericsson and Bahrain Telecommunication Company (batelco) have signed contracts for the further expansion of batelco's existing GSM network and its upgrade to GPRS. An agreement is also in place to begin EDGE trials in the second half of 2002. Under the contracts, Ericsson will provide the equipment, software and services for the expansion and upgrade. The contracts are together valued at more than US$26 million. Upon completion of the expansion project, batelco's network will accommodate more than 400,000 subscribers and offer GPRS capability. more
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