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Move Your Business Online with “eSuite” from

Batelco

There’s no doubt that owning a physical fully customizable solution, with localized Commenting on the launch, Hoodly's
retail shop is not enough to grow your payment methods,” commented Abdulla co-founder Sebastian Wussler said, “We
business and reach all your potential Danish, Batelco’s A/General Manager are pleased to announce our strategic
customers. Breaking the physical Enterprise. Merchants can manage their partnership with Batelco. Hoodly will be
barriers and establishing an online store account through a user-friendly dashboard fully integrated in Batelco’s digital business
is essential for today’s businesses. To with bi-lingual store administration. Other services and be distributed exclusively
help merchants create online stores, interesting features include managing through Batelco in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
Batelco launched an eCommerce platform inventory for each product, setting up your Together we enable entrepreneurs and
“Batelco eSuite” powered by Hoodly, a own domain name, a built-in tax tool to SME’s to get their business online easily
multi-channel commerce ecosystem make compliance simple, and much more. and in less than five minutes." The good
designed to help sellers start, run, and Shoppers browsing products on the online news is that Batelco is offering a full-
grow their business. “Batelco eSuite” store will find local payment methods featured, three-month free trial period.
enables merchants to create online stores from Bahrain based providers, such as Following that, should customers decide
within minutes through few easy steps; Tap payments, allowing a seamless to continue using the service, they will only
signing up, listing items with photos, payment and delivery experience for users. be charged BD9.900 per month.
prices, and quantities, and their ready to
sell, without any paperwork or set-up fees.
Merchants don’t need to hire developers
to set-up the store, the platform is user-
friendly and provides clear instructions.
The online store is mobile optimized,
meaning customers will have a consistent
shopping experience whether they’re using
a browser on their laptop or their mobiles.
“We at Batelco pay great attention to the
SME segment as it is an important pillar
in Bahrain’s economy. We proactively
deliver solutions that support SME growth,
helping them to operate more efficiently.
Earlier this year, we launched “Business
in a Box”, a package that offers a full set
of technology tools for SMEs, and now to
complement our growing portfolio, we’re
offering a solution that allows merchants
to sell online. “Batelco eSuite” provides a

DISH and Cisco Partner to Drive Wireless

Disruption and Innovation for Enterprises

DISH Wireless and Cisco have announced the United States’ first smart 5G network. and DISH are disrupting the mobile and
a multi-layered agreement to accelerate This open and secure network allows enterprise markets by launching cloud-
5G services in the United States. The DISH to customize solutions and enable powered 5G services in record time through
partnership is designed to enable enterprise-driven slices of its network innovative technologies, fostering new
businesses to capitalize on DISH’s 5G to meet the needs of specific industry application development and improving
network and application infrastructure to verticals. Unique to DISH’s network, the overall customer experience,” said
support new hybrid work models. Together this customized approach will grant Chuck Robbins, Chairman and CEO, Cisco.
with Cisco, DISH will unlock the value and enterprises across industries the access to “Together, we look forward to helping
benefit of 5G for businesses by building rapidly reap the full benefits of 5G. “Cisco businesses across industries transform

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