Batelco Enhances its Presence in Saudi Arabia

New PoPs Deployed to Ensure Diversity and Resilience for Customers

Mobilk - Batelco, as a major player in the telecommunications industry, continues to grow its global presence through its strategic global network expansion projects. As part of the ongoing efforts, Batelco recently completed an initiative aimed at enhancing its global presence in Saudi Arabia.

The enhancement project includes the deployment of four new Point of Presence (PoPs) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with each PoP connected through a different cable system to Batelco’s diverse global network, thus ensuring maximum diversity and resiliency for customers.

Batelco Bahrain CEO Eng. Muna Al Hashemi said that Batelco’s expansion projects are designed to support the growth of the Company’s global business while ensuring network diversity, avoiding single points of failure, providing better country resilience and efficient use of international capacities. 

“The Saudi Arabian market is among the fastest growing in the region and our new setup will ensure that enterprise customers in Saudi and international carriers will benefit from a reliable end-to-end service offering,” she said. 

Batelco Chief Global Business Officer, Adel Al Daylami explained that Batelco today has more than 26 PoPs deployed around the globe with a focus on the MENA region and with Saudi Arabia being the heart of the region it requires unique attention, as it is such a vital part of the overall network.

“Batelco’s PoPs are distributed around the globe and connected through different cable systems to the network to avoid a single point of failure. Additionally, our core PoPs are distributed over redundant geographical zones in the region, so even if a whole country is down, our network continues to provide the service to our clients,” Mr. Al Daylami said.

“Furthermore, with this enhancement, we are pleased to announce that our Global Ethernet services are positioned in a much better way considering the robust topology deployed in Saudi Arabia, hence passing the value of such initiatives to our end customers,” Mr. Al Daylami added.

“Our Global expansion projects allow us to offer a superior customer experience to more businesses in Saudi Arabia and around the world thanks to our high quality resilient global network. Our delivery is further enhanced through our strengths in project management, continuous service monitoring through our advanced tools and after-sales support,” Mr. Al Daylami concluded.