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petkow · *Last edited by petkow; 17-06-2009 at 10:43..*

On my recent trip to Bahrain, I noticed that Batelco offers free incoming in some random off-beat countries. Of course these are with a Bahrain +973 number, but which can be called very cheaply (or diverted to from SIP etc.). One of the Betamax offerings (Calleasy) is currently doing Bahrain Mobile at 0.5c/min, but it can also be easily called from others at a couple of cents.

Batelco have a cheap prepaid offering called SimSim which is easy to pick up and activate.

The list of countries that are included are often countries where mobile termination on their own national carriers is quite pricey (such as Iraq). The countries include quite a few that would be of interest to anyone working in the oil industry including Saudi, Algeria, Nigeria, Norway and also a whole bunch of random European baltic nations.

For the full list of countries and networks check: Batelco Free Roaming countries

Edit: Thet also have a flat data roaming rate across a few GCC countries. (Around €1.20/MB) http://www.batelco.com.bh/data_roaming.html

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petkow (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Pioneer Posts: 696 Join Date: 01 Aug 2006 Location: Madrid Country:	Batelco Bahrain free incoming in 21 countries - 17-06-2009, 10:13 On my recent trip to Bahrain, I noticed that Batelco offers free incoming in some random off-beat countries. Of course these are with a Bahrain +973 number, but which can be called very cheaply (or diverted to from SIP etc.). One of the Betamax offerings (Calleasy) is currently doing Bahrain Mobile at 0.5c/min, but it can also be easily called from others at a couple of cents. Batelco have a cheap prepaid offering called SimSim which is easy to pick up and activate. The list of countries that are included are often countries where mobile termination on their own national carriers is quite pricey (such as Iraq). The countries include quite a few that would be of interest to anyone working in the oil industry including Saudi, Algeria, Nigeria, Norway and also a whole bunch of random European baltic nations. For the full list of countries and networks check: Batelco Free Roaming countries Edit: Thet also have a flat data roaming rate across a few GCC countries. (Around €1.20/MB) http://www.batelco.com.bh/data_roaming.html Last edited by petkow; 17-06-2009 at 10:43..