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Telephones - main lines in use: 3,317,500 (2002) For other uses, see Telephone (disambiguation). ...
Telephones - mobile cellular: 21,500,000 (2007)
note: In 2004, the Saudi Telecom Company (STC) monopolization was broken by authorizing Etihad Etisalat/Mobily to compete in mobile communication. Cellular redirects here. ...
Saudi Telecom Company, STC (Arabic: ) is a Saudi Arabia-based telecommunications company that offers landline, mobile and Internet services. ...
Mobily (Arabic: موبايلي) is the trade name of Saudi Arabias second Telecommunications company, Etihad-Etisalat consortium (Arabic: اتØاد اتصالات ). The company, as the winning bidder for Saudi Arabias second GSM licence, provides mobile telecom services nationwide, breaking Saudi Telecoms monopoly in the wireless business. ...
Telephone system: modern system
domestic: extensive microwave radio relay and coaxial and fiber-optic cable systems
international: microwave radio relay to Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Yemen, and Sudan; coaxial cable to Kuwait and Jordan; submarine cable to Djibouti, Egypt and Bahrain; satellite earth stations - 5 Intelsat (3 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean), 1 Arabsat, and 1 Inmarsat (Indian Ocean region) This article is about the United Arab Emirates. ...
Intelsat, Ltd. ...
Arabsat is a satellite built by Aerospatiale. ...
Inmarsat is an international telecommunications company founded in 1979, originally as an intergovernmental organization. ...
Radio broadcast stations: AM 43, FM 31, shortwave 2 (1998)
Radios: 6.25 million (1997)
Television broadcast stations: 117 (1997)
Televisions: 5.1 million (1997)
Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 22 (2005)
Country code (Top level domain): .sa .sa is the Internet country code top-level domain ( ccTLD) of Saudi Arabia. ...
Broadband Internet access ADSL service in Saudi Arabia has become available since 2001. As part of its monopoly on all methods of communication in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Telecom Company is the only complete provider, though several ISPs are available, with the permission of STC. Saudi Telecom Company, STC (Arabic: ) is a Saudi Arabia-based telecommunications company that offers landline, mobile and Internet services. ...
STC is the only provider for telephone lines in Saudi Arabia. For this reason customers have to pay two fees, one to STC for activation of the ADSL service across the telephone line, and a second to an ISP to provide Internet service across the ADSL line. STC has been highly criticized for their service in providing ADSL access as customers had to wait many months to receive ADSL service on their phone lines. In 2006, STC had invested in increasing the size of their ADSL infrastructure and since then the wait times had improved, but many customers are still on waiting lists.
ADSL services in Saudi Arabia has been criticized for being slow, unreliable, and unreasonably expensive. As of January 2007, STC started providing 1024 kbit/s ADSL connections, but there are currently few ISPs that provide 1024 kbit/s Internet access. Still, Saudi Arabia is lagging behind its neighbors in terms of DSL access, as broadband costs are nearly double that of neighboring countries and the maximum Internet speed available is currently 4096 kbit/s.
Available ADSL speeds with typical monthly prices:
- 128 & 256 kbit/s at a cost of SR180(US$48).
- 512 kbit/s at a cost of SR270 (~US$72).
- 1024 kbit/s at a cost of SR350 (~US$93).
- 2056 kbit/s at a cost of SR590 (~US$157).
- 4096 kbit/s at a cost of SR790 (~US$155) for ISP + SR210 (~US$56) for STC.
As of October 2006, the 20 Internet service providers in Saudi Arabia became connected through "Data service provider" -licensed companies, such as Saudi Telecom Company. The ISPs were previously connected through KACST (King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology), who was also responsible for DNS and filtering traffic. Since October 2006 the Communications and Information Technology Commission is responsible for DNS and filtering services.[1] Saudi Telecom Company, STC (Arabic: ) is a Saudi Arabia-based telecommunications company that offers landline, mobile and Internet services. ...
King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology (KACST) (Arabic: مدينة الملك عبدالعزيز للعلوم والتقنية), located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, is an organization established in 1977 under the name of Saudi Arabian National Center for Science & Technology (SANCST), and later in 1985 renamed to King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology. For more information visit http://www. ...
Communications and Information Technology Commission, CITC (Arabic هيئة الاتصالات و تقنية المعلومات) was established under the name of Saudi Communications Commission pursuant to the Council of Ministers Decision. ...
There are several reasons for the service being unpopular, in particular the unreasonably expensive prices and incompetent low-quality service. Perhaps this was proved when STC submitted a request to enter neighboring Egypt as a provider and was refused due to lack of experience, staff, equipments and such.
Saudi citizens are hoping for the quick introduction of another provider to end STC's monopoly and start competition in the Internet provider market. This is believed to be hindered by CITC.
In late 2005 it was announced that a company by the name of electronet would start providing broadband connections through electric lines by mid 2006. However as of early 2007 the service has not been implemented.
Dial-up connection is the predominant method of Internet connectivity and is billed (to the phone bill) at 3 Saudi Riyals per hour, which equates to about 80 US Cents per hour.
There are huge public complains about the Internet services in Saudi Arabia.
See also Saudi Telecom Company, STC (Arabic: ) is a Saudi Arabia-based telecommunications company that offers landline, mobile and Internet services. ...
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Mobily (Arabic: موبايلي) is the trade name of Saudi Arabias second Telecommunications company, Etihad-Etisalat consortium (Arabic: اتØاد اتصالات ). The company, as the winning bidder for Saudi Arabias second GSM licence, provides mobile telecom services nationwide, breaking Saudi Telecoms monopoly in the wireless business. ...
For more information, see these articles about Communications in Asia. ...
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This article is about Communications in mainland China. ...
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Communications services improved dramatically in the 1980s with the assistance of foreign partners and as a result of the development of the electronics industry. ...
Telephones - main lines in use: 1,094,809 Est(2003) Telephones - mobile cellular: 2,150,120 Est Telephone system: very inadequate domestic service, particularly in rural areas; some hope for improvement with privatization of national telephone company and encouragement to private investment; good international service (1999) domestic: national trunk network...
Following Indonesian withdrawal from East Timor in 1999, the telecommunications infrastructure was destroyed in the ensuing violence, and Telkom Indonesia ceased to provide services. ...
Telephones - main lines in use: 915,223 (1998) Telephones - mobile cellular: 1 million (1999) Telephone system: modern system consisting of microwave radio relay and coaxial cable; key centers are Abu Dhabi and Dubai domestic: microwave radio relay and coaxial cable international: satellite earth stations - 3 Intelsat (1 Atlantic Ocean and...
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