XPress Telecom was a wireless telecommunication operator in

Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

. It has been shut down because of financial problems. It holds a digital trunking radio system license from the country's telecommunication regulatory body, the TRC; the technology used is Motorola's proprietary

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technology operated on the SMR-800 frequency band. Its offering mostly targeted the corporate market with an array of services needed in such sector including; professional radio service (also known as Push-To-Talk or PTT), regular mobile telephony and messaging services along with A-GPS based tracking services and wireless-data services. They do also offer prepaid service for the individual customers. XPress Jordan ceased trading in 2010. XPress's sister company Bravo Telecom operates the same system in neighboring

Saudi Arabia Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in Western Asia. It covers the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula, and has a land area of about , making it the fifth-largest country in Asia, the second-largest in the A ...

, one advantage of that is that customers of either network can place international push-to-talk calls, similar service is available between

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iDEN network subscribers and their counterparts in other countries such as

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in Mexico and

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iDEN subscribers in Canada.Sprint international Direct-Connect service website

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External links

XPress's official website

Bravo's official website
Telecommunications companies of Jordan Defunct companies of Jordan

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