Batelco extends number flexibility service.Byline: Manama Manama Arabic Al-Manamah City (pop., 2001: 143,035), capital of Bahrain. Situated at the northeastern tip of Bahrain island, it is Bahrain's largest city, with about one-fifth of the emirate's population. Batelco This article is about the company in Bahrain. For the unrelated company in the Bahamas, see BaTelCo (Bahamas). Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco) was established in 1981 as a Bahraini shareholding company and has an authorized share capital of BD 100 million (US$ , Bahrain's leading telecommunications company See telecom company. , is extending its 'number flexibility service' for ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. lines. With this new service, ISDN Business or Residential subscribers can retain their phone numbers when they move to a new location within the same domain. The service was first introduced for fixed line customers last October October: see month. . Bahrain has been divided into two main domains within which customers can retain their numbers when they move. However, when moving from one domain to another they would be required to change their number. Moreover, customers can choose from a wider range of available numbers to change their existing number to a 'nice' number, said a statement. Customers who are considering moving locations are advised to contact Batelco's retail shops or their account managers to confirm that the move is within the same domain in order to retain the same number, it said. "Businesses with widely recognised numbers or households with distinguished numbers can relocate re·lo·cate v. re·lo·cat·ed, re·lo·cat·ing, re·lo·cates v.tr. To move to or establish in a new place: relocated the business. v.intr. within their expanded domain, and take their number with them," said Batelco group general manager media and government relations Ahmed Al Janahi. Additionally, current and new customers can visit any Batelco Retail Shop and select a new number from the range available, including any available 'nice' numbers which belong to their relevant domain area, he said. This flexibility has become a reality thanks to Batelco's NGN (Next Generation Networks) An umbrella term for mixed voice and data networks running over the IP protocol. See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (Next Generation Network), the company's BD22 million project to upgrade the kingdom's telecoms infrastructure, that was completed earlier this year. Batelco is now rolling out a number of enhancements with many more to come in the future, he said. -- TradeArabia News Service Copyright 2008 www.tradearabia.com Copyright 2009 Al Hilal Publishing & Marketing Group Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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