Over the next month many readers will be traveling for the mid-winter holidays. Will your Saudi Telecom (STC) mobile phone roam at your vacation destination?
Roaming is defined as the ability for a cellular customer to automatically make and receive voice calls, send and receive data or access other services when traveling outside the geographical coverage area of the home network, by means of using a visited network.
Establishing roaming between network operators is based on — and the commercial terms are contained in - Roaming Agreements.
Over 205 countries now offer GSM service. The website for GSM World shows lists of all the networks in the world with which STC has established Roaming Agreements. For specifics scroll through gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/cou_sa.shtml.
While you’re at the GSM World site, click to the latest news and see all the wonderful progress that’s being made in the field of mobile communications. Wireless technology is evolving at a rapid pace. It’s incumbent on us all to try to keep up with the latest developments so at least we know what’s passing us by on Al-Jawwal. If it’s difficult to understand all the terms and acronyms common in the wireless industry check out the glossary at gsmworld.com/technology/glossary.shtml.