Batelco has succeeded in further cutting the cost on international calls made to India and Pakistan. The new reductions will come into effect from November 1 and will apply to two major countries where the IDD call rate to India will be reduced by 19 percent or 60 fils per minute from 320 fils to 260 fils, and, to Pakistan by 32 percent as much as 120 fils per minute from 380 fils to 260 fils.
More than 330,000 people in Bahrain now use Batelco mobile services--a 50 percent market penetration. The Bahraini government has a 39 percent stake in the monopoly company, with Britain's Cable and Wireless holding 20 percent and the remaining 41 percent publicly traded. — (menareport.com)
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