Dispute Between Augere And Wi-Tribe On WiMAX Licensing
Augere, a European telecom company, had plans to offer WiMAX in Pakistan. It needed frequencies in the 3.5Ghz and struck a deal with Telecard in 2008 to get these licenses. Later on, it was discovered that there were disputes about these licenses between Telecard and Wi-Tribe. In a recent court decision, Telecard is said to have lost, causing a sever blow to Augere’s plans of WiMAX service. Wi-Tribe will continue with its WiMAX plans. The situation will become more clear when the details of court decision come forth.
This contention has lifted the value of 3.5 GHz licneses up significantly from the previously mentioned figures of US $22.5 million. After all, this is the basis on which WiMAX service can be offered. As mentioned at Telecom Grid Pakistan:
According to the agreement between Telecard and Wi-Tribe, Telecard was to have the licenses split in such a manner that 14 of the 28 newly issued licences would be assigned to Telecard the 3.5 GHZ band frequencies. These 14 licenses were then to be transferred to Telecard subsidiary Broadband Services (Pvt) Limited, 90 percent of which would have then been bought by Wi-Tribe.
According to Tariq Qureshi, an expert on licencing matters, resolution should be achieved as rules are in place already. Tariq makes the following points.
There is provision in WLL licenses of use-it-or-loose it. Stipulated period to go into operations was 2 years – later extended to 12/07. All who didn’t start operations and can be send cancellation notices to make spectrum available for the serious players (like Augere and Witribe).
Many license holders would like to get a refund in USD for the amount paid. The smart ones sold off their companies at 10X-20X. This is what Telecard is trying to do and what DVCom, Dancom and others did.
Augere & Witribe need 21+21MHz FDD or 42MHz TDD to have a commercially feasible network. The following companies are not utilizing the allocated spectrum: PTCL and Worldcall are amongst the few, and should surrender the spectrum and get refunded.
PTA will be able to recover the 2.5G spectrum from SunTV that was allocated for MMDS as the 15-year license should be expiring in 2010. The 190MHz license was issued can be used by 6 separate operation.
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wi-tribe will be successful in pakistan.
I can confirm from reliable source that Augere launching on 1st October 2009 , and it will be available only for Small Business or SME, and meanwhile they will expend their network and in 2010 they will start giving net for home users with approx 360 base stations.
Salam
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Dear all ,
augere will grab the Internet market because there main focus is customer support , I am working in ISP sector from last five years I have joined Brain Net and I have worked there for 4 years my last designation was assistant Manager corporate Sales & Marketing N.W.F.P and Now I have switched to HRI-PTCL Joint venture same designation as a assistant Manager corporate Sales & Marketing N.W.F.P , If Augere focus on customer satisfaction then they will grab market If they work only for the low packages with low quality services then hopefull they will be same like wateen. We have a great marketing and customer support team I know all the market and as well as what customer wants , corporate customers only want quality not quantity , so be focus on customer support , For Inter department we have to make a reliable and easy Information system will work like bridge between staff and customer , I have this complete Information system If any one Worked on this information flow system then he will lead the market My Ideas and My thoughts are only because of market knowledge and experience.
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Augere will surely swip wimex market soon…specially in karachi….
DUE TO BAD COVERAGE AUGERE FUT HAS BEEN FAILED IN KHI.
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From which Europian country AUREGE Belongs
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When I took the same thing up on a forum 3-4 months back everyone came after me that I’m going totally out of the line defining Infinity as failure, wrong facts were quoted by the Infinity team then on the same forum with illogical arguments. They even pressurized me from different aspects not to launch such facts as they were threatened to see correct figures and they created false myopia facts to display success, a success which was good as a sand castle. I have done nothing in nearly last 3 years but to understand the psyche of Mobilink brands, and they should have taken those tips then floated by me on the forum to overcome these problems but I guess ego came in between. I had envisioned these market problems before Infinity team even had a clue about it.
Mobilink infinity unable to deliver as its technical team is not strong at all and also due to some bad decisions they made in last few months, market is not saturated here in Pakistan for any other company to come and deliver, new companies has advantage that now people are much more educated to technology, wi-tribe will get advantage if they get spectrum from telecard but that does not mean at all that they wont be able to launch without that, they already started and soon be launching their services in market
Danish reports at TGP:
Former President and CEO of Ufone, Mr. Mubashir Naqvi has been selected as the CEO of Augere Pakistan.
Mobilink needs to utilize the strategy of ‘undercommit – over deliver’. banking only on fancy advertisement and cathcy but deceiving slogans that of ‘poora signal – poora Pakistan’ won’t work for long. implementation is the name of the game. Wateen introduced WiMAX in Pakistan as the market leader, Mobilink followed suit but infiniti is not stable like wateen wasn’t in the beginning. Wateen has realized its blunders and is now working on sound positive notes. Mobilink needs to dig deep for top notch success.
The news is being initally floated from http://www.apnatime.com.( later on however it is REMOVED from the site as it was not verified). The same apnatime.com article was COPIED on Telecom Grid Pakistan.
However, the FACT is NOTHING has been announced by till date by the International Court.
The more recent news,however, is that the Mobilink-Infinity has been sued by ALU for misuse of its Software and destroying of ALU reputation.
The feel of emptiness in Infinity team was felt last week. When the INFINITY ENGINEERING has to face questions from TOP managment for the loading in ALU WAC which interpted the services.
The current report are that the customer base in last 30 days of infinity has reduced to 18000 from CLAIMED 25000 which is a huge blow to ORASCOM as its CELLULAR base is also decreasing.
ORASCOM had decided, learnt from the Internal resources to Sale MOBILINK INFINITY to Wi-tribe ( which also at this time is struggle in Court to claim the License from Telecard).
We have to look for the old player in DATA Market to ensure continuation of Service like Cybernet, Multinet and Supernet.
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