1. These HANs (or people, as traditionalists may prefer to call them) are capable of communicating information at a rate of 100 megabytes per second.

2. Staff Report Dubai ÷ Batelco has upgraded its internet peering link with the UAE to six mbps (megabytes per second). This will give customers a faster and more cost–effective internet connection between Bahrain and the UAE, Batelco said.

3. Initially, the fiber–optic network will only be available in certain districts of Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam. «We have already started providing bandwidths ranging between 8–10 megabytes per second,» Saudi Telecom Vice President Saad Dhafer Al–Qahtani told Arab News. «Within a few months we intend to provide bandwidths up to 30 megabytes per second.» He said the fiber–optic network heralds a big change. «The Internet bandwidth available in the Kingdom is the highest in the region,» Al–Qahtani said. «I am sure that the spread of high–speed Internet will promote distance education in the Kingdom.» Computer experts agree. «Increased bandwidth will create a new world of communication for the common man in terms of videoconferencing, Internet use and television watching,» said Jamal Muhiyuddin, database administrator at the General Authority of Civil Aviation. «It will also improve communication between people in general and expatriates in particular.

4. The company announced it would provide this access at speeds up to of 2 Mbps (megabytes per second), about four times more bandwidth than Saudi Telecom Company’s fastest household DSL line (Internet access through traditional phone lines that is faster than a dial–up connection), which clocks in at 512 Kbps (kilobytes per second). Higher bandwidths allow users to employ bandwidth–heavy functions, such as watching streaming video and using the Internet to make telephone calls.