Batelco has signed a bilateral commercial GPRS and MMS roaming agreement with Etihad Etisalat, giving customers — who are traveling to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia — the ability to stay in touch with family, friends and colleagues via a host of extra mobile services including pictures messaging, video clips, e-mail and access to the Internet.
By virtue of this agreement, which takes effect today, Batelco’s Freetime and Valuetime (postpaid) mobile customers — who have MMS enabled handsets with MMS/GPRS settings — will be able to use the full service while traveling to Saudi Arabia. Similarly, visitors from Saudi Arabia will also be able to make use of MMS and GPRS links to stay in touch with their families, friends and business colleagues while visiting Bahrain.
“GPRS/MMS service enables customers to send and receive MMS messages and browse the Internet through GPRS directly from their mobile phones whilst traveling,” explained Hamza Ali, Senior Manager — Mobile Services at Batelco.
