14 DAY TRIAL // Vodafone will be the first telecommunications company to provide full nationwide wireless broadband internet. In only a month from now, the WiMAX services will be available, but the full commercial service will go nationwide from the beginning of the autumn.
MTC-Vodafone (Bahrain)'s Chief Operating Officer, Dr Ahmed Alshatti, considers that their WiMAX services will bring high developments when it comes to mobile internet access on this market. Thus, he commented that "We were the first in Bahrain to offer a 3G service to customers and our 3.5G service is already enabling even faster mobile connection to the web and corporate email services. Our WiMax service will offer a superior alternative to standard broadband connectivity. Now WiMAX's cutting-edge wireless broadband technology is gaining wide acceptance and acclaim internationally, with implementations already executed or in progress in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia."
The WiMAX technology which will be introduced in Bahrain will also come with additional services meant to provide reliable support when it comes to using it most efficiently by customers. Not even 10 percent of Vodafone revenues come from 3G services. With this in mind, the company has decided to introduce WiMAX technology on new markets in order to strengthen their position and reach higher profit rates. Vodafone currently provides high quality WiMAX services in other countries too, including France, Greece, Malta. Even more, they are testing the possibility of offering WiMAX even to Egypt, Saudi Arabia and New Zeeland in the near future.
WiMAX service is capable of providing wireless data over long distances at fast transfer speeds. In order to do that, it connects Wi-Fi hotspots with each other and then with other parts of the Internet. This makes this type of Internet services extremely efficient in the case of mobile phones and laptops which are most efficient with unwired connections.