Digital Era in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: Novel Strategies of the Telecom Service Providers Companies
Journal Title: Webology - Year 2020, Vol 17, Issue 1
Abstract
A revolution in wireless communication began in the first decade of the 20th century with the pioneering developments in radio communications by Guglielmo Marconi, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909. Other highly notable pioneering inventors and developers in the field of electrical and electronic telecommunications include Charles Wheatstone and Samuel Morse (telegraph), Alexander Graham Bell (telephone), Edwin Armstrong, and Lee de Forest(radio), as well as Vladimir K. Zworykin, John Logie Baird and Philo Farnsworth (television). In this paper we have discuss about the services and the quality with basic comparison between the different telecom companies. Numbers of telecom companies providing telecom services in Saudi Arabia which includes fixed and cellular phones as well as internet and issues relating to the provision of other services. Main telecom companies in Saudi Arabia are: STC, Mobily, Zain, ITC, GO Telecom (Etihad Atheeb Telecom), Bayanat and Arab Satellite Communications Organization. Saudi Telecom Company (STC) is the first company in Saudi Arabia, and then allowed Communications Commission to compete with other companies in Saudi Arabia and then it becomes a number one of telecom companies. In Saudi Arabia five companies are in competition: STC Mobile: STC includes landlines, mobile, mobile (phone) and Sawa; ITC (Integrated Telecom Company): second operator after STC and offers internet, broadband, connectivity and satellite services for businesses, consumers and wholesale; Mobily: It provide mobile and internet Fabraupetk (Fiber Optic).
Authors and Affiliations
Arun Kumar Singh and Samidha Dwivedi Sharma
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- DOI 10.14704/WEB/V17I1/a219
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