Bahrain, one of the first countries to deregulate its telecom sector, will also be the first country in the Middle East to be covered 100 per cent by the state-of-the-art wireless network WiMax to be deployed in the Kingdom by the US giant Motorola for Mena Telecom.

Mena Telecom, a subsidiary of Kuwait Finance House (KFH), signed a major agreement with Motorola Inc to plan, deploy and manage a nationwide 802.16e-based mobile WiMax and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) network in the Bahrain.

Abdulhakeem Al Khayyat, chairman of Mena Telecom and general manager of KFH, who signed the agreement with Motorola’s vice-president Middle East & Africa Networks and Enterprise Ali Amer, told a Press conference that the Kingdom’s attractive telecom sector would help to elevate the standard of services and also to attract foreign investments.
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