Bravo is a digital radio trunking operator in

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. Now part of the incumbent operator

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, it was originally a separate company known as Public Telecom Company under a BOT agreement with STC. It was launched in 2005 using Motorola's proprietary

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technology operating on the SMR-800 frequency band. Bravo-Telecom's focus is professional radio service to the corporate and governmental sector, with no consumer-centric prepaid offering because the network is in partnership with the incumbent operator STC which runs its own GSM and 3G network under the commercial name of ''Aljawal'' which primarily addresses this sector. The other two cellular operators launch a PTT service similar in function to the one offered by Bravo through its digital trunking network, but the former companies used a technology called PoC for this service. In neighboring

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, Bravo-Telecom's sister company

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operates the same system, which enables customers in both sides to place international PTT calls, The company was owned by two shareholders, a local company called NASCO and the Dubai-based Wataniya Int'l which was later wholly acquired by Qatar-based

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in 2007. In 2013, Bravo was acquired by the

, Saudi Arabia's dominant telecommunications carrier, but continues operating a separate network in parallel to the "Unified Secure Communication Network of Saudi Arabia" (USeC) of the

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. In 2017, Bravo announced plans to acquire

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(PMR) infrastructure from

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XPress official website
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