Monday, November 19, 2012

TWO WAY SATELLITE VSAT INTERNET PROVIDER FOR SAUDI ARABIA

Telecommunication in Saudi Arabia

From Wikipedia

Telephones


Telephones - main lines in use: 4,633,158 (2011 - source: ITU)

Telephones - mobile cellular: 53,705,808 (2011 - source: ITU)


note: In 2004, the Saudi Telecom Company (STC) monopolization was broken by authorizing Etihad Etisalat/Mobily to compete in mobile communication, in June 2009 GO Telecom (Etihad Atheeb Telecom) or "جو" also entered the market.


Digital Radio Trunking- 100,000 (Unofficial):

            In late 2005, bravO! Telecom was launched as the country's digital radio trunking operator under a B.O.T agreement with the incumbent operator STC, with an estimated 100,000 subscribers as of Nov'07.



Telephone system:

            domestic: extensive microwave radio relay and coaxial and fiber-optic cable systems

            international: International undersea cables: EIG, I-ME-WE, FEA, MENA, SEA-ME-WE 3, SEA-ME-WE 4, FALCON, SAS-1, SAS-2, Gulf Bridge International, TATA TGN-Gulf


Microwave radio relay to Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Yemen, and Sudan;
 
Coaxial cable to Kuwait and Jordan;


Satellite earth stations - 5 Intelsat (3 Atlantic Ocean and 2 Indian Ocean), 1 Arabsat, and 1 Inmarsat (Indian Ocean region)




Radio

Radio broadcast stations: AM 43, FM 31, shortwave 2 (1998)

Radios: 6.25 million (1997)



Television

Television broadcast stations: 117 (1997)

Televisions: 5.1 million (1997)


ISPs

Internet Service Providers (ISPs): 22 (2005)

Internet Users: 4,800,000 (December 2006)

Country code (Top level domain): .sa

Saudi Post



Broadband Internet access


An ADSL service in Saudi Arabia has become available since 2001. As part of its monopoly on all methods of communication in Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Telecom Company is the only complete provider, though several ISPs are available, with the permission of STC.

STC is the only provider for telephone lines in Saudi Arabia. For this reason customers have to pay two fees, one to STC for activation of the ADSL service across the telephone line, and a second to an ISP to provide Internet service across the ADSL line. STC has been highly criticized for their service in providing ADSL access as customers had to wait many months to receive ADSL service on their phone lines. In 2006, STC had invested in increasing the size of their ADSL infrastructure and since then the wait times had improved, but many customers are still on waiting lists.

As of 2011, the maximum Internet speed available is currently 200 Mbit/s.


Speed
Rate
128 kbit/s
99 S.A.R (26.39$)
256 kbit/s
149 S.A.R (39.73$)
512 kbit/s
199 S.A.R (53.06$)
1 Mbit/s
211 S.A.R (56.26$)
2 Mbit/s
222 S.A.R (59.19$)
4 Mbit/s
244 S.A.R (65.06$)
8 Mbit/s to 40 Mbit/s
296 S.A.R (78.93$) - 346 S.A.R (92.3$)
100 Mbit/s
499 S.A.R (133.06$)
200 Mbit/s
799 S.A.R (213.06$)
           

As of October 2006, the 20 Internet service providers in Saudi Arabia became connected through "Data service provider" -licensed companies, such as Saudi Telecom Company. The ISPs were previously connected through KACST (King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology), who was also responsible for DNS and filtering traffic. Since October 2006 the Communications and Information Technology Commission is responsible for DNS and filtering services.

There are several reasons for the service being unpopular, in particular the unreasonably expensive prices and incompetent low-quality service. Perhaps this was proved when STC submitted a request to enter neighboring Egypt as a provider and was refused due to lack of experience, staff, equipments and such.

In late 2005 it was announced that a company by the name of Electronet would start providing broadband connections through electric lines by mid 2006. However as of early 2009 the service has not been implemented and the company's website has been idle for years. Some of the developed countries are having trouble implementing internet connections via power lines so it is highly unlikely this technology will ever appear in Saudi Arabia. Electronet is dissolved

There are huge public complaints about the Internet services in Saudi Arabia all of which falls on deaf ears since there is no reason or force pressuring the monopoly.




VSAT INTERNET FOR SAUDI ARABIA







Saudi Arabia is within our satellite KU band service coverage via SES-4, AM44 and ARABSAT. See footprints below.

See above the Middle East Map and trace Saudi Arabia to the satellite coverage below. This means Saudi Arabia people can avail of a two way data, voice, video and internet communications to the rest of the globe via any of these covering communication satellites.

What will be required are an ODU (Out Door Unit) composed of satellite dish antenna (VSAT), penetrating or non penetrating mount which can be aligned to the serving satellite by qualified engineer in no time; and an IDU (In Door Unit) composed of satellite modem or receiver/transmitter and a connection to the end user LAN (Local Area Network). 


The following lists of Governorates by province include (in brackets).


Al Bahah Province: Al Aqiq , Al Bahah , Al Mandag , Al Mukhwah , Al Qara , Biljurashi , Qilwah. Northern Borders Province (Al Hudud ash Shamaliyah):    Ar'ar ,    Rafha ,    Turayf .Al Jawf Province:    Al Quryyat,    Dawmat Al Jandeal,    Sakaka  Al Madinah Al Monawarah    Al Madinah Al Monawarah (Medina) ,    Al Hinakiyah ,    Al Mahd ,    Al Ula,    Badr,    Khaybar ,    Yanbu Al Bahar .Al Qassim Province:    Al Asyah,    Al Badai ,    Al Bukayriyah,    Al Midhnab ,    An. Nabhaniyah ,    Ar Rass ,   Ash Shimasiyah ,    Buraydah ,    Riadh Al Khabra ,    Unayzah ,    Uyun Al Jiwa .Al Riyadh Province:    Al Riyadh ,    Ad Diriyah ,    Al Kharj ,    Ad Duwadimi ,    Al Majmaah,    Al Quwayiyah,    Wadi Ad Dawasir ,    Al Aflaj ,    Azulfi ,    Shagra ,    Hawtat Bani Tamim ,    Afif ,    As Sulayyil ,    Duruma ,    Al Muzahimiya,    Rumah ,    Thadiq ,    Huraymila ,    Al Hariq ,    Al Ghat .'Asir Province:    Abha ,    Ahad Rufaydah ,    Al Majardah ,    An Nammas ,    Balqam ,    Bishah ,    Dalvan Al Janub ,    Khamis Mushayt,    Muhayil ,    Rijal Alma ,    Sarat Abidah ,    Tathlith .Eastern Province (Ash Sharqiyah):    Ad Dammam ,    Al Ahsa ,    Al Jubayl ,    Al Khafji ,    Al Khubar ,    Al Qatif ,   An Nuayriyah ,    Buqayq ,    Haft Al Babin,   Qaryah Al Ulya ,    Ras Tannurah .Ha'il Province:   Al Qhazaiah ,    Ash Shinan ,    Baqa ,    Ha'il .Jizan Province:    Abu Arish ,    Ad Dair ,    Ad Darb ,    Ahad Al Masarihah ,    Al Aridah ,    Al Aydabi ,    Al Harth,    Ar Rayth ,    Baysh m    Damad ,    Farasan ,    Jizan ,    Sabya ,    Samtah .Mecca Province (Al Makkah Al Mokarramah):    Al Imumum ,    Al Kamil ,    Al Khurmah ,    Al Lith ,    Al Qunfidhah,    Al Ta'if ,    Jiddah,    Khulays ,    Mecca (Al Makkah Al Mokarramah) ,    Rabigh ,    Ranyah ,    Turubah .Najran Province:    Al Khirkhir ,    Badr Al Janub ,    Hubuna,    Khubash,    Najran ,    Sharurah ,    Thar ,    Yadamah .Tabuk Province:    Al Wajh ,    Dhuba ,    Haqil ,    Tabuk ,    Tayma ,    Umluj .





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