Broadband Pakistan - The Largest WiMax Network in the World
Wateen Telecom (part of the Abu Dhabi Group) has annouced plans with Motorola for creating the largest WiMax Network in the world, right here in Pakistan! Touting to covering almost 120 cities and having a capacity of almost 1 Million (yes, thats right! ONE MILLION) users, it certainly beats any other venture's i've heard of in the world.
Read more from the Telecom Magazine and Yahoo! Business News.
Excerpts from the above articles:
From Telecom Magazine:
In what is believed to be the largest WiMAX network of its kind, Motorola has been selected as primary supplier to Pakistan’s Wateen Telecom, part of Warid Telecom International, to plan, design and deploy a nationwide WiMAX network. The initial deployment is schedule to be completed by the second half of 2006From Telecom Magazine:
Integration with Motorola’s IMS solution will enable Wateen Telecom to offer consumers voice services using VoIP (Voice- over-IP) including enhanced residential voice features such as caller ID, voice mail and call forwarding. Differentiated services such as pre-paid and simple web-based subscriber account management are also included. For business customers, Wateen Telecom will offer a hosted VoIP solution with traditional business PBX and IP Centrex voice services such as conferencing, integrated with services that include find me/follow me and PC desktop integration.From Yahoo! Business News:
Tariq Malik, Wateen Telecom, commented, "We are committed to deploying Pakistan's first nationwide network -- the largest 802.16e WiMAX network in the world with over one million users -- and to enabling access to a range of voice, Internet, data and value-added services via the network. This is an important milestone in realizing our vision of 'Broadband Pakistan' and eliminating the digital divide by providing coverage to areas that are currently underserved."About the Companies:
About Wateen
Wateen Telecom is the Abu Dhabi Group's latest communication investment in Pakistan. After the successful launch of Warid Telecom in Pakistan which provides mobile GSM services to over 4.0 million customers, in under 1 year of launch, Wateen Telecom was set up to become the leading "Carrier's Carrier" in Pakistan providing quality, reliability and affordability in the communication sector bringing the next generation services at customer's doorstep ... today! By virtue of its 5000+ KM long haul optical fiber, metro optical fibre rings and FTTX, wireless broadband network, data centres and tele-housing facilities, Wateen offers total communication solutions including domestic and international voice services, video conferencing/video telephony, true broadband Internet and data connectivity, DVD quality TV viewing and VAS such as Video security and surveillance and Interactive gaming, for corporate, business and residential customers. Wateen also provides telecom infrastructure to cable, cellular, ISPs, calling card and payphone partner companies. For more information about the company, please visit http://www.wateen.com
About Motorola
Motorola is known around the world for innovation and leadership in wireless and broadband communications. Inspired by our vision of Seamless Mobility, the people of Motorola are committed to helping you get and stay connected simply and seamlessly to the people, information, and entertainment that you want and need. We do this by designing and delivering "must have" products, "must do" experiences and powerful networks -- along with a full complement of support services. A Fortune 100 company with global presence and impact, Motorola had sales of US $36.8 billion in 2005. For more information about our company, our people and our innovations, please visit http://www.motorola.com
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