Archive for July 1st, 2008

Wateen’s WiMAX Featured At CIO Magazine

Published by Babar Bhatti on July 1, 2008 under Broadband Internet, Emerging Markets Telecom, Infrastructure, Wimax

CIO Magazine has covered Wateen’s WiMAX launch and its partnership with Motorola in Pakistan. The article is very brief and falls short of mentioning link dot net and WiTribe.

Wateen has placed an order with Motorola to provide more of 198,000 more CPE units for the accelerating markets. This order has been recognized as one of the largest orders for WiMax CPEs in the world.

The CPE, or Customer Premises Equipment, enable consumers, small businesses and Pakistan’s largest enterprises to access wireless services — a vast range from basic telephony and fast internet access to high-end data services such as virtual private networks.

Whether or not the solution is something that the Pakistani market is ready for, is yet to be seen. however the ‘proof of concept’ of the subscribers in Pakistan is right here, and has already opened the door to two other competitors launching services in the market in the past two months.