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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Friday, 26 May 2006 | |
  
At Broadband World Europe yesterday Motorola announced that it had been selected as primary supplier to Wateen Telecom, part of Warid Telecom International, to plan, design and deploy a nationwide wireless broadband voice and data network with initial deployment to be completed by the second half of 2006. Tariq Qureshim, general manager of Wateen Telecom, was reported saying that 193 base stations would be deployed by the end of 2006 and 600 by June 2007. The announcement co-incided with the launch of Motorola's WiMAX 802.16e technology, the MOTOwi4. Wateen Telecom will deploy a MOTOwi4 WiMAX access network and subscriber units backed up by a core IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) Network (itself a new and relatively untried technology, also to be supplied by Motorola) and will offer broadband data services covering residential and corporate voice, Internet access, corporate IP virtual private network (VPN) and public hotspots. According to Tariq Malik of Wateen Telecom, "We are committed to deploying Pakistan's first nationwide network - the largest 802.16e WiMAX network in the world with over one million users". Launching the MOTOwi4 at Broadband World Europe, Motorola said it would operate at both 2.5 GHz and 3.5GHz and used "advanced antenna techniques to provide greater coverage range and building penetration" It is designed to support fixed, nomadic, portable and mobile applications". |
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