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Bahrain Telecommunications - (Batelco) - is the principal telecommunications company of Bahrain. The company is headquartered in Bahrain and is listed on the Bahrain Stock Exchange. In 2008, it posted profits of US$269.2 million (BD101.5m) on a revenue of US$777.4m (BD293.1m)[1]. [--168. ...
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Ownership
Batelco was established in 1981 as a Bahraini shareholding company and has an authorized share capital of BD100 million (US$265 million). Batelco's major shareholders include the Government of Bahrain, Quasi-government institutions, financial and commercial organizations, and private Bahraini and GCC investors. These parties together hold 80% of Batelco, while Cable and Wireless holds the remaining 20%. Cable and Wireless is a British telecommunications company. ...
Operations Despite the full liberalization of Bahrain’s telecommunications market by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA), Batelco is still the monopoly operator for fixed, Internet and data services in the country.
Batelco, through its holding company (Batelco Middle East EC (BMEC)) in Bahrain, has set up a number of communications partner companies acting as a spearhead for Cable and Wireless's global data communications strategy. These communications partner companies are found in several key areas of the region including Kuwait, Jordan, and Egypt. However, such expansion is not unifrom, with Batelco selling its 50% share of the datacomm provider Batelco Al-Jeraisy (Atheer) in Saudi Arabia during the last quarter of 2004.
Batelco allocated an amount of BD 42 million (US$ 111.3 million) for capital expenditure on network development and enhancement during the year 2002 to prepare for the migration to packet switching and ATM technologies to support multimedia services. In June 2004, Batelco announced a further investment of BD 9 million (US$ 23.85 million) in the mobile network to expand its capacity to 550,000 lines. In computer networking and telecommunications, packet switching is a communications paradigm in which packets (messages or fragments of messages) are individually routed between nodes, with no previously established communication path. ...
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Employees Batelco employs around 1,500 people, of which 95% are Bahraini nationals. The operator spent nearly BD1.5 million (US$3.98 million) during 2003 in training its staff.
Subsidiary companies As well as being Bahrain's principal telecom operator, the company serves customers in Jordan, Kuwait, Yemen,Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
Subsidiaries
- Jordan - Umniah Mobile Communications and Batelco Jordan
- Kuwait - Qualitynet
- Egypt - Batelco Egypt Communications SAE
- Pan-Arabian - Arabian Network Information Services - (anis) - is a pan-Arabian internet service provider.
- Yemen - Sabafone ( Batelco owns 20% of Yemen Leading Telecoms Company)
- K.S.A - Atheeb/Batelco (Batelco owns 15% of the New Landline & WiMAX Company in Saudi Arabia)
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Controversy
Batelco Trade Union Sackings Batelco has been condemned by the Bahrain Minister of Labour, Dr Majeed Al Alawi, and human rights activists when it sacked two trade union officials. Acting (Batelco) trade union chairman Majed Suhrab and union research and development committee head member Faisal Ghazwan were dismissed in July 2007, after organising wildcat rallies to demand a 25 per cent pay rise for staff. The two were sacked after they issued an ultimatum to Batelco giving it a week to respond to their demands. Suhrab’s termination letter said he had been warned several times not to stage rallies inside or outside the company and his actions were considered an attempt to “paralyse” its facilities. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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During a parliamentary question and answer session in January 2007, Al Alawi told MPs that companies that fire trade unionists are breaking the law and highlighted the case of Batelco's treatment of Suhrab and Ghazwan. Al Alawi said "Batelco has broken the law when it sacked the unionists, who were not on strike but were protesting outside working hours. It should reinstate these unionists, instead of replacing them with the expatriates it brings."[2]
Al Alawi said that companies were "throwing the law against the wall" by sacking people for union activities, but that the ministry would refer all such cases to the courts - in previous judgements, when the Ministry has referred companies to court for sacking trade unionists, Al Alawi said "Three unionists have won in court, six have been reinstated and nine are waiting for verdicts."[3]
MPs have voted in favour of a proposal demanding that all trade unionists who have been sacked by various companies be reinstated. MPs have promised to pressure the government to have the unionists reinstated, after they demonstrated in front of the National Assembly Complex in Gudaibiya.
Bahrain Human Rights Society assistant general secretary Dr Abdulla Al Derazi in July 2007 criticised the sackings of Suhrab and Ghazwan, saying that their case highlights a contradiction between Trade Union Law Number 48 for 2006 forbidding strikes in ’sensitive places’ and the UN International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights approved by parliament and ratified in July 2007 by Deputy King Shaikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa. “What is sensitive,” asked Dr Al Derazi. “Workers strike at Heathrow (airport) in the UK - that’s a very sensitive place. But they still have the right to strike.” Mr Al Derazi said that according to the covenant, workers have “the right to strike, provided that it is exercised in conformity with the laws of the particular country”. This deliberately compromising language is a feature of all international treaties, he said, but additional protocols and amendments are often added to ensure the treaties are effective. Bahrain has unfortunately opted out of ratifying the additional protocols of the covenant, he said[4]. The Bahrain Human Rights Society was set up in 2002 following wide ranging political reforms by the Bahraini government to allow the functioning of independent human rights groups. ...
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(Batelco) Trade Union (BTU) officials have complained that 100 Batelco staff were being paid only BD250 per month with no benefits and that more than 30 workers had been on contracts for more than three years. They said their demands were reasonable given the fact that the company this week announced net profits of BD52 million for the first half of the year.
References
External links Principal site Subsidiaries - (English), Arabic Arabian Network Information Services
- (English), Arabic Umniah Mobile Communications
- (English), Arabic Batelco Jordan
- (English), Arabic Qualitynet
- (English), Arabic Batelco in Egypt
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