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More than 100 people attended an executive reception at the Ritz-Carlton Bahrain Hotel and Spa as part of Batelco’s silver jubilee celebrations.
It was attended by government ministers, diplomats, key business customers and guests. Among the highlights was a display of photographs depicting the changes that have taken place within the company and the telecom technology over the last 25 years. Chairman Shaikh Hamad bin Abdulla Al Khalifa, chief executive officer Peter Kaliaropoulos and corporate affairs general manager Ahmed Janahi were among those present. Above, Deputy Prime Minister and former chairman Shaikh Ali bin Khalifa Al Khalifa and Shaikh Hamad with guests.
Batelco is soon to offer state-of-the-art satellite services in Bahrain and throughout the Middle East and North Africa regions. The introduction of the new services follows the company signing a memorandum of understanding with SpeedCast.
Batelco chief executive officer Peter Kaliaropoulos signed the agreement with Hong Kong-based SpeedCast chief executive Pierre-Jean Beylier. “The MoU covers the mutual co-operation in jointly developing, marketing and distributing advanced satellite services, which will focus on applications such as corporate private networks, disaster recovery, two-way satellite Internet service, video conferencing and multicasting application over satellite,” said Batelco corporate affairs general manager Ahmed Al Janahi.
Above, Mr Kaliaropoulos, left, and Mr Beylier sign the MoU in the presence of Batelco staff, from left, senior
manager core networks Mahdi Yousef, manager strategy core networks Yaqoob Sabt, manager satellite services Hisham Mustafa and manager mobile operations (earth station) Mark Woodard. Right, Mr Kaliaropoulos shakes hands with Mr Beylier following the signing ceremony, watched by Batelco general manager Networks Ebrahim Zainal, second from left, and general manager business division Abdulwahid Zainal.
