Broadband milestone
MANAMA: Batelco's has completed the final migration from legacy network to the new next generation network (NGN). The completion of the $57 million project gives Bahrain the honour of being the first country in the world with complete countrywide broadband, Batelco said.
Batelco chief executive Peter Kaliaropoulos hailed all Batelco employees involved in the project saying it was a proud moment for Batelco and Bahrain.
He also praised Huawei, the next generation telecommunication network solution providers, who partnered Batelco in the project.
"Designing, developing and building Batelco's state-of-the-art next generation network was a major undertaking by Batelco and Huawei engineers," said Mr Kaliaropoulos.
"When we embarked on the road to migrate our existing network over to a new network using 21st century technology in 2005, we anticipated that it would take us more than five years to implement.
"However, through supreme efforts which involved training our engineers with the new skills necessary to understand and implement the new technologies, plus additional investment, we decreased the time frame considerably."
Batelco general manager networks & IT Ebrahim Zainal said that the NGN services would facilitate triple play (voice, data and video) on a single line which traditionally only carried voice telephone services.
"Significantly, the service will allow new customers to connect to Batelco broadband Internet on the same day, from a process that usually took up to one week prior to migration," he said.
"Batelco's NGN will deliver our promise to bring affordable broadband access to all of Bahrain's households making them among the best connected in the world," added Mr Zainal.
Batelco chief executive Peter Kaliaropoulos hailed all Batelco employees involved in the project saying it was a proud moment for Batelco and Bahrain.
He also praised Huawei, the next generation telecommunication network solution providers, who partnered Batelco in the project.
"Designing, developing and building Batelco's state-of-the-art next generation network was a major undertaking by Batelco and Huawei engineers," said Mr Kaliaropoulos.
"When we embarked on the road to migrate our existing network over to a new network using 21st century technology in 2005, we anticipated that it would take us more than five years to implement.
"However, through supreme efforts which involved training our engineers with the new skills necessary to understand and implement the new technologies, plus additional investment, we decreased the time frame considerably."
Batelco general manager networks & IT Ebrahim Zainal said that the NGN services would facilitate triple play (voice, data and video) on a single line which traditionally only carried voice telephone services.
"Significantly, the service will allow new customers to connect to Batelco broadband Internet on the same day, from a process that usually took up to one week prior to migration," he said.
"Batelco's NGN will deliver our promise to bring affordable broadband access to all of Bahrain's households making them among the best connected in the world," added Mr Zainal.
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