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Leading global mobile operator, Zain has announced the commencement of commercial service in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the expansion of its innovative world's first borderless network or One Network.
With the launch of its Saudi Arabia network, the Kingdom has now joined Zain's globally acclaimed ground-breaking 'One Network', a borderless mobile service offering with access to favourable rates, convenience and freedom from high roaming charges for cross-border communications and available to over 45 million Zain customers in 16 countries. According to Zain Group Chief Executive Officer, Dr Saad Al Barrak, the company is launching the service with a coverage area of 95 percent of the Kingdom's population. Its state-of-the-art mobile network will initially cover 53 percent of the population in 36 major cities and 14 highways spanning over 4,000 kilometres. The remaining coverage area will be attained initially through a complimentary countrywide roaming service. Zain will introduce high-speed 3.5G broadband technology to approximately half of the Saudi population offering the latest 3.5G services that include television, video-calling, rich multimedia content and even faster internet access.
Zain's network will be further expanded in stages to eventually cover the entire Kingdom. "We believe that being connected to such a valuable service will be one of many factors that will attract Saudi customers to Zain," he declared. "The attractiveness of and continual expansion of the 'One Network' will play a key role in Zain attaining its year 2011 targets of attaining 150 million customers and being a top-ten global mobile operator," Barrak said. He said One Network enables cross-border communications at favourable rates free of high roaming charges, 'One Network' provides loved ones the opportunity to stay connected as well as stimulating trade and enriching livelihoods, both economically and socially. Zain in Saudi Arabia has committed investments of over US$1.5 billion in the development of the network. Recently the operation undertook a long testing phase with 9,000 mobile users that proved invaluable. "It gave our technical staff and customer care personnel the sufficient understanding and experience to improve and finesse many of the services that makeup our world-class network. We have invested heavily and we are now ready for the challenges ahead, confident of success. We are targeting equal market share along with the two existing operators in the years ahead", commented Dr Alahmadi.

Zain launches commercial service in Saudi Arabia

MWEB Nigeria, an indigenous Internet service provider, ISP, has introduced an innovative high-performance broadband satellite router with several advanced features.
The new Hughes HN7740S modem which comes with Voice over Internet Protocol, VoIP, also supports broadband over satellite data capabilities and advanced compression techniques to ensure optimal data transmission.

Dotun Faseru, MWEB Nigeria VSAT Manager, said: "Another key feature of the HN 774OS modem is that it is highly resilient to changing weather conditions automatically adapting to conditions to ensure optimal performance regardless of weather conditions."

He noted that MWEB Nigeria's Network Operations Centre, NOC, has an inbuilt Adaptive Coding Modulation, ACM, on the outbound channel which allows it gain significant bandwidth efficiencies and provide high availability services as well, especially during unfavourable weather conditions.
"Once MWEB's NOC senses a signal degradation on the modem, it sends more power to the modem automatically so as not to lose the connection and as such, MWEB's clients' would still be working optimally during rainstorms; thus providing customers with unsurpassed network connectivity throughout the day", he added

Multi-Links Telkom unveils internet recharge product

Multi-Links Telkom has introduced an electronic recharge option for customers. With the latest recharge option, subscribers on the Multi-Links Telkom can now enjoy a more flexible way of sustained and stable availability of recharge.

The virtual recharge solution enables customers to recharge their mobile handset credit account through the Internet without the need of having to purchase physical recharge cards. Justin Ramayia, the company's chief executive officer assured that the Internet recharge solution is one of the different valued added products being introduced to make the services of the company more dynamic and user friendly. Ramayia expressed delight at the new offering, which empowers the customers of Multi-Links Telkom to take ownership of the recharge process even right in the comfort of their domains.

He assured that the customer-centric focus of Multi-Links Telkom has made it compelling for the company to proactively develop products that will always delight its customers. Noting that this is the first phase of its electronic recharge rollout, the Multi-Links Telkom boss said all holders of Interswitch branded ATM bank card have been linked to the Internet recharge solution. And to access this recharge option, he said that Multi-Links Telkom subscribers can visit www.PrePaidNigeria.com site. At the site, customers are expected to follow easy steps to purchase electronic recharge PINs in any denomination from the comfort of their home, office or cybercafÈ with the use of their bank's ATM card.

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