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Mobily extends its 3G coverage
Source: BI-ME , Author: BI-ME staff
Posted: Mon August 10, 2009 4:20 pm
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SAUDI ARABIA. Mobily, Etihad Etisalat, announced that it has added a number of Northern provinces cities and villages to its advanced 3G network (3.5G and 3.75G) coverage.

The new covered cities are villages included Ja'la, Al Ha't, Al Khraisha, Al Khota, Al Rawdha, Al Nakheel, Al Ola, Al Faqaly, Amlaj, Beer bin Hermas, Baqa, and Taima. Also Halat Ammar, Dahma, Shari, Wadi Al Fara, and Khasibeh were added to the network coverage, raising the number of cities and villages enjoying 3.5G and 3.75G coverage to 326 locations in the Kingdom.

Mobily has announced lately that its advanced 3G network coverage has also covered many areas or tourism activity, locations of large businesses, and roads with high traffic rate.

Mobily is currently completing the coverage in the rest of towns and villages in the Kingdom so that all Mobily customers connect the world from anywhere in the Kingdom through high speed wireless internet, provided either the enhanced CONNECT, or through mobile handsets, or iphone devices. 

Customers can also enjoy watching TV channels, and communicate through voice and video (video calling) while roaming as well.

Mobily operates the largest 3G network in the Middle East and its network is considered as one of the busiest networks in terms of data transfer which sometimes hit 40 Terabyte daily which made the company enhance its network to meet the increased demand on 3G services.

Mobily has completed coverage of over 80% of the inhabited areas in the Kingdom despite the short period since it was launched for the first time in 2005

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