Zain’s One Network

With traffic and activity in the Bahrain-Saudi Arabia corridor getting busier, Zain Bahrain has seen a significant rise in usage of its revolutionary One Network borderless mobile network service. The service allows Zain customers in Bahrain as well as in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Jordan, Sudan and other African countries to make calls and send messages at local rates, top up with local recharge vouchers and access home network services for free (customers care and voicemail) adding to that receiving calls for free with exceptions for Saudi Arabia where the regulator stipulates a fee.

These are major features, not provided by any other operator in the region, and available to Zain Bahrain and other 65 million Zain customers.

In addition, Zain’s corporate customers, businessmen and leisure travelers have been making good use of the Data access service built into the One Network platform which allows data access at local rates (cross-border GRX- based data access), saving themselves up to a 97% on telecoms bills compared to the current data access roaming charges in the market. By this, traveling customers can access high-speed internet, emails, BlackBerry, MMS, Zain Create and other data services at the local rate of the country they are in.

The service is not only for Zain Bahrain customers, but also for all Zain customers from and traveling to Bahrain, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan and Sudan.

Zain’s One Network proposition is by far superior than any other concept in the market. It’s a true One Network where customers are charged at the local rates available in the visited Zain network. Hence, the traveling customers not only receive all calls for free but also can call, send messages and access data services at local rates. This is in addition to being able to top up their prepaid lines using local Zain vouchers in the country they are in.

 Added Mr. Ayman Al Alawi, Zain Bahrain’s International Roaming Manager, said, ‘We are delighted that our customers have already reaped the benefits from cross-border data services across the Middle East on the award winning ‘One Network’ platform.’