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The licensing of the three companies will increase the number of land phone service providers in the Kingdom to four and end the monopoly of state-owned Saudi Telecom Company. It will also improve the quality of service and Internet connections and reduce charges, market analysts said.
“The plan also envisages including computer and Internet studies in general and university education, providing Internet connections to all schools and setting up websites for each school and other educational institutions and a gateway for each level of education,hollister france,” the Saudi Press Agency quoted Mulla as saying.
Among the three qualified applicants only Al-Mutakamilah (PCCW-Hong Kong) and Atheeb consortia have applied for radio spectrum technology. According to Abdul Rahman Al-Fehaid, deputy governor of the Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC), the new companies will start commercial operations a year after receiving their licenses,abercrombie france. “The new fixed-line coverage should reach at least three regions in three years and the whole Kingdom in seven years,” he added.
CITC’s board of directors,air jordan pas cher, chaired by minister Mulla, picked the three from 10 consortia, which submitted their applications in March. Bids by Etihad Etisalat,moncler, which operates the Kingdom’s second mobile phone service,franklin and marshall, South Korea’s KT Corp. and China Telecom were among those who failed to qualify. Khaled Ahmed Al-Juffali Co. (WorldCall Telecom of Pakistan), Saudi Telecom Holding Co,hollister. (Qtel-Atco), Electronet (Autelia of Italy) and Al-Shola were other consortia vying for the much sought-after license.
JEDDAH, 14 June 2007 — Three consortia led by Bahrain Telecom Co. (Batelco), Hong Kong’s PCCW and US Verizon Communications will receive licenses next month to provide land phone services in the Kingdom, according to Muhammad Jameel Mulla, minister of telecommunications and information technology.
Prince Abdul Aziz ibn Ahmed, chairman of Atheeb Telecom Consortium,jordan pas cher, said his company would offer 25 percent shares to the public and 10 percent to the General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI) and the Pension Fund. Batelco’s CEO Peter Kaliaropoulos has revealed that his company will hold a 15 percent stake in the new firm to be set up by the consortium with a capital of $266.7 million.
| | A AThe arrival of the three new service providers augurs well for the national telecom and IT plan that aims to provide fixed-line service to 25 percent of the population, mobile service to 80 percent and spread personal computers and the Internet among 30 percent of the population,www.abercrombiemagasinsfrs.com.
Batelco-Atheeb plans to roll out broadband Internet and voice and data services using WiMAX technology. WiMAX, a wireless digital communications system, can provide broadband wireless access (BWA) up to 30 miles (50 km) for fixed stations, and 3-10 miles (5-15 km) for mobile stations,abercrombie. It is a second-generation protocol that allows for more efficient bandwidth use, interference avoidance, and is intended to allow higher data rates over longer distances,abercrombie france.
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