MOBILY has completed the coverage of more than one hundred residential quarters in more than 20 cities around the Kingdom with fiber optic network within the ambitious plan of the company that aims to cover more than one million residential units with this advanced network, which is considered the faster and more powerful fixed broadband technology. The company clarified that the most prominent cities that were covered by fiber optic network during the last period are Jazan, Onaizah and Al Hofuf where this coverage included a number of neighborhoods within these cities and provinces, as well as the cities and provinces that were covered in the previous years. Mobily continues to expand the fiber-optic network to reach most of the cities and provinces of the Kingdom during the next period, based on Mobily's belief of the necessity to provide this service, which will provide high-speed Internet with great reliability. Engineer Nasser Al Nasser, Chief Operation Officer, said: "Mobily is in race with time for the deployment of fiber-optic network in all regions of the Kingdom; and we work in accordance with a technical plan that took into account the speed of implementation and quality of provided service that confirms Mobily's leadership of the telecom sector, where Mobily continues to implement the important steps that lead to the implementation of its set objectives that preserves the sustainable development to achieve the maximum benefit from fiber optic services. Mobily has adopted the construction of a consistent strategy to expand its fiber optic network, in line with its ambitious plan towards the launch of a new era of the largest broadband network in the Gulf region. This can be realized through completing the implementation phase of the infrastructure technical equipment, and then to the next phase of actual operation of the fiber optic network This will reinforce the leadership of turning the telecom sector towards broadband services supported by the fiber network to connect about one million site in 2014. — SG
