Batelco slashes broadband prices by 40pc.Byline: Manama Batelco, Bahrain's leading Internet service provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. , has reduced prices by up to 40 per cent on its business and educational inet broadband broadband Term describing the radiation from a source that produces a broad, continuous spectrum of frequencies (contrasted with a laser, which produces a single frequency or very narrow range of frequencies). packages. The telecom major has also extended its fastest internet broadband access See broadband and wireless broadband. up to 10Mbps. With effect from today (September 1) business and education customers can pay up to 40 per cent less on the rental charges of the existing four package speeds ranging from 256Kbps to 2Mbps plus have the choice to subscribe to Verb 1. subscribe to - receive or obtain regularly; "We take the Times every day" subscribe, take buy, purchase - obtain by purchase; acquire by means of a financial transaction; "The family purchased a new car"; "The conglomerate acquired a new company"; four new package speeds ranging from 4Mbps to 10Mbps, making Batelco the provider of the fastest internet in the kingdom. "Batelco's business and education customers on existing Broadband packages will be delighted to know that they will be automatically upgraded to the next higher package to benefit from double speed and more or unlimited usage at lower or the same monthly rental. The upgrades will take place within the first week of September 2009," said Batelco Media & Government Relations general manager Ahmed Al Janahi. Keeping the needs of small and medium businesses in mind, Batelco was keen to offer threshold based packages at affordable prices starting from BD20 per month. The charge for the extra threshold usage has been slashed slash v. slashed, slash·ing, slash·es v.tr. 1. To cut or form by cutting with forceful sweeping strokes: slash a path through the underbrush. 2. by 66 per cent, meaning that now 1GB of extra download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. above threshold is charged BD5 instead of BD15, he added.- 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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