Warid Telecom’s sister company Wateen Telecom have officially launched Pakistan’s first and the world’s largest WiMAX deployment. The team is confident of the market’s growth and of the long term benefits these services and solutions will bring to Pakistan.
Wateen Telecom has been working on establishing a wireless network infrastructure since early 2006, and installed the network in early 2007. Their WiMAX service is a major breakthrough in the Pakistani broadband market as it will be a fast and cost-effective alternative to existing broadband services.
The development of the network has been carried out by Motorola, and is the largest WiMAX network ever installed. The project is a milestone for both the companies, as well as the nation, as it is expected to herald a broadband revolution in Pakistan, catering to more than one million users.
Tariq Malik, CEO, Wateen Telecom, “We are providing Pakistani consumers with complete communication solutions. Services such as high speed broadband internet and voice telephony will have a direct impact on the number of broadband users online. We are contributing to the growing market.”
They don't tell you which parts of the various cities this connection is available in. WiMax works over line of sight trancievers so for instance if there's an antenna in Clifton, Karachi then someone in Saddar won't get any connection.
The prices don't seem too bad but i just hate those download caps.
I think they’d have implemented backhaul towers all around town… no?
As it is, WiMax provides coverage to large areas – theoretically… as large as 8000 square KMs, and supports both non line of sight mode at lower frequencies and line of sight mode at higher frequencies.
Are they implementing this in stages? Installing towers in certain parts of town before moving on to others?
It’s a great step overall... it's one of the first full blown implementations at metropolitan levels around the world.
WiMax is going to do to wired broadband internet access what cell phones did to land line access… besides the GAN (802.20) standard is something I’m really really looking forward to (still about 7 to 8 years away I think…).
Well It seems pretty good nice, but doesn't this all have negative effects on human body. I heard about some radiances can even cause cancer.
Rumour or not is yet to prove.
wow, that is nice news. but Wifi is not so much popular worldwide, there are many issues, hardware prices, connectivity, I am afraid the project might fail,
dude how can u say it will fail? google has seen the potential and they already are trying to make san francisco wimax city! its just that they have issues with the other IP companies in that area who believe they will lose jobs. otherwise it woudlve been implemented by now.