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Link: Bahrain: Batelco crosses major milestone

Batelco has celebrated a major milestone with the launch of its 400th roaming agreement with an international telecom provider. The company launched GPRS roaming on a bilateral basis with the second operator in Malaysia (DiGi).

The launch means that Batelco’s mobile postpaid customers with GRPS/MMS enabled handsets can exchange pictures and video clips with their colleagues, family and friends and access the Internet directly from their mobiles while roaming in Malaysia. Batelco also launched international roaming agreement with a new operator in Iran MTN. Chief executive officer Peter Kaliaropoulos joined staff to mark the occasion at Batelco’s Hamala headquarters.

“We can be very proud of this milestone,” he said, “as we exceed the achievement of many telecom companies that are larger than Batelco.” Media and Government Relations general manager Ahmed Al Janahi said Batelco is the first company in the world to provide free incoming calls from anywhere in the world in 21 countries.

“Our prepaid customers can receive calls and send and receive SMS from anywhere in the world while roaming with 278 International operators in 112 countries worldwide.” “We will continue to sign new agreements with more international operators to ensure that our customers have access to the best telecommunications connections while roaming throughout the world,” he said.