Menatelecom receives authority to migrate its fixed-wireless service to LTE

Bahrain’s telecom regulator, the TRA has announced that it has handed over LTE spectrum licences to the country’s three mobile network operators.

The TRA’s chairman handed the licences to Batelco, Zain and Viva at its headquarters.

The concession permits the use of LTE services over all three main frequency blocks currently used by the mobile networks, 900MHz; 1800MHz and 2.1GHz.

The regulator also confirmed that it has provided the necessary authorisations for Menatelecom to migrate its fixed-wireless service to LTE as well.