Motorola to deploy WiMAX in Pakistan

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Under the terms of the agreement, Motorola will design, plan, deploy and optimise a WiMAX network for Mobilink, and deliver integration and support services, as well as indoor and outdoor customer premises equipment (CPE) units to enable faster adoption of the operator’s WiMAX offering.

Covering major metropolitan areas such as Lahore and Islamabad, the network is intended to enable Mobilink to extend its current service offering beyond cellular and data offerings to high speed broadband and VoIP services for fixed-line residential and business subscribers.

This is Motorola’s second WiMAX 802.16e network in Pakistan, with the first being a turnkey end-to-end nationwide WiMAX/IMS network awarded in 2006. This is also Motorola’s fourth commercial WiMAX deployment in the Middle East and Africa region.

"Over the last 14 years of our collaboration, Motorola has developed a solid understanding of Mobilink’s business strategy and has effectively supported us in growing our subscriber base to almost 30m subscribers with reliable GSM technology solutions," says Zouhair Khaliq, president and CEO, Mobilink.