Bahrain's Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) will be developing a National Broadband Network (NBN). In its Third National Telecommunications Plan, which was released in July, the TRA said that the, “Government has concluded that Bahrain will be severely disadvantaged if [...] it is not provided with a secure ultra-fast broadband fiber optic infrastructure." The TRA will be consulting with Batelco and other stakeholders to create a plan that follows the government's guidelines and avoids inefficient and expensive duplication of network resources.
