Established in 1981, BATELCO has evolved from a local telephone company to become a regionally diversified, integrated telecommunications operator with Mobile, fixed and wireless broadband, Datacom and fixed line services.

Batelco Group, listed on the Bahrain Stock Exchange, is the leading integrated communication provider in the Kingdom of Bahrain and a company of reference among the region’s key telecommunications players for innovation and customer experience.

Batelco serves both the corporate and consumer markets in the most liberalised and competitive environment in the Middle East Africa region. It delivers cutting-edge fixed and wireless telecommunications services to its customers in Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Yemen, Egypt and India.

The Batelco Group of companies offers end-to-end telecommunications solutions for its residential, business and government customers in Bahrain on Next Generation, all IP fixed and 3.5G wireless networks, MPLS based regional data solutions and, GSM mobile and WiMax broadband services across the countries in which it operates.

IT’S A RARE BREED THAT KNOWS WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS.

Foresight is a gift. And when you combine it with skill and commercial acumen, the result is often breathtaking. That in a nutshell is the story of the Siva Group, a future spotter, early entrant, market maker…a story of vision, speed, consolidation and operational excellence. Started in 1986 by Mr. C Sivasankaran, the Group today is a US$ 3 billion conglomerate, with operations in Realty, Telecom, Project Engineering, Shipping, Energy, Agri exports and e-education / software.

As early as 1988, Mr Sivasankaran recognized the enormous potential of personal computers. Way back then, Siva PCs went on to become the benchmark value definers and trend setters for the nascent industry. In the following years, the group’s reputation as a pioneer and ‘Nextpert’ grew rapidly as it went on to build leading brands in broadband connectivity, mobile telephony and food & beverages, proving with each venture, the core competencies of the group in terms of entrepreneurial spirit, operational capability and unmatched skill in scaling.

The mobile brand Aircel created by the Siva Group was one of the major players in the mobile market then, changing the rules of the game from the word go. Post its divesture in March 2006, the Group has been making its presence felt in the fields of Realty, Project Engineering, Shipping, Energy, Agri exports and e-education / software initiatives, both in India and abroad.

While the Siva Group has grown to become one of the most successful business houses in the country, it has stayed rooted to the guiding business principles and beliefs of its founder promoter Mr. C. Sivasankaran, viz.