Bahrain participates in GCC telecommunication meeting

Riyadh, June 1 (BNA): The Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications (MTT)'s Assistant Undersecretary for Bahrain Post, Shaikh Badr bin Khalifa Al Khalifa, headed Bahrain's delegation to the 27th Meeting of GCC Posts and Telecommunication Ministries in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. The meeting was opened by Saudi Arabia's Deputy Governor of Telecommunication and IT Affairs Authority, Dhaif-Allah bin Ahmed Al Zahrani. During their meeting, the officials discussed the meeting's business agenda items, including future work plan of Gulf posts, ways of boosting cooperation in this vital sector and various topics to develop the postal services that support government services and e-business before submission of their recommendations to the GCC Telecommunications Ministerial Committee. They also discussed several topics related to the telecommunications sector in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, and topics pertaining to reviewing the duties of the sector's relevant committees inside the Secretariat, the protection of telecommunication service beneficiaries in the GCC countries, the GCC indicators for the telecommunications sector as well as dialogue with regional and international blocs to enhance the sector's services and reap the benefit to users of the telecommunication services..