Bravo highlights importance of wireless telecoms to lower government's communications costs

Bentaieb also pointed out that wireless telecommunications represent an optimal solution to manage communications budget, as it decreases the communications cost in governmental organizations by 50%.

This announcement came at an informative forum that Bravo had held for the governmental officials in Assir, attended by Eng. Abdul Karim Ben Salim Al-Hanini, Secretary of Assir Principality, and senior directors from Bravo. The forum highlighted the wireless business solutions that Bravo provides to support the governmental sector and the role of wireless telecommunications in deploying secure and instant communications system that allows governmental organizations to lower its communications costs.

"In this meeting, we aim at stressing the role of wireless communications solutions in supporting the overall performance and raising productivity at governmental sector", said Bentaieb. "An integrated telecommunications platform allows the employees in governmental organizations to communicate during working hours guaranteeing security and efficiency at lowest costs".

Bentaieb said that Bravo's strategy, which aims at enhancing the governmental sector's performance, fulfills the top objectives of the Saudi five-year plan of developing the communications and information technology (CIT) sector. The plan that has been launched by the Saudi government targets increasing productivity and efficiency in all governmental organizations and activating the governmental, commercial, social, and health care services electronically as well as encouraging the telecommuting within the economical development that the Kingdom is experiencing now.

Malik Bentaieb also added: "Bravo's vision is to enable the governmental organizations to achieve business efficiency through telecommunications, by providing different organizations with customized wireless communication solutions and services that best fit the special needs of each ".

Bravo has succeeded in covering most of the business areas in the Kingdom, providing full network coverage in major cities, including Abha, Baha, Najran, and Jizan in the Southern Region, enabling individuals working at different organizations and groups to communicate with each other around the clock, guaranteeing security and efficiency at a monthly fixed cost.

Bravo's total communications solutions and services are all based on the iDEN technology which was developed by the world-renowned vendor of wireless technologies, Motorola. The network operates on a trucked radio signals and offers 5 unique services in All-in-One communication device; instant Push-To-Talk communication one-to-one or one-to-many, a mobile telephone and SMS, as well as GPS and Data Transfers services.