Communications and mail

During the past two decades, communications in Asir have made a significant leap, exceeding their results over what was achieved in the region during the previous fifty years. There is no doubt that the development of communications technologies in the world as a whole has had a clear impact on these successes.

The Asir Region has entered the world of modern communications forcefully, using the latest devices in the world, and with a network that enables people to communicate with any spot in the Kingdom or around the world with complete ease and ease.

It includes telephone services, mobile phones, fixed telephones, Internet services, etc., and uses the latest international systems and technology.. Through its network, the Saudi Telecom Company covers the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and provides the latest systems used in the field of telephone communications. The visitor and resident can make all their local and international telephone calls directly, without the use of main telephone centers.

Mobile phone services are also available using third generation technology and high-speed Internet services.

In recent years, several companies have entered into competition with the Saudi Telecom Company, such as Mobily, Zain, and GO, providing their services to citizens and residents of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The development of the telephone was accompanied by a parallel development in postal services, which reached every place in the Asir Region.

The latest devices are used in collecting and distributing mail, especially those that sort messages according to postal code numbers, which has greatly facilitated the work of postal services, which have reached the remotest places in distributing and receiving postal materials, placing in their work a motto based on the fact that time is an important element that must be used well.

The postal service includes premium mail, mailboxes, and postal parcels, in addition to regular mail.

Of course, telegraphic services did not differ from the pace of comprehensive development, and modernization included the use of the latest devices in sending and receiving telegrams, so that the first goal of them was achieved, which is the speed of delivering the telegraphic message to the people of Abha.