Mobilink, an Orascom Telecom Company, has selected Motorola (News - Alert) to deploy a WiMAX 802.16e-2005 access network in Pakistan. According to the agreement, Motorola will design, plan, deploy, and optimize a WiMAX (News - Alert) network for Mobilink. Motorola will also enable quicker adoption of the operator’s WiMAX offering by providing integration and support services as well as indoor and outdoor CPE (customer premises equipment).

 

Looking to build on its customer’s needs, Mobilink was looking for wireless broadband solutions provider, and chose Motorola largely due to a longstanding relationship between the two. Thanks to the history between them, Motorola has a strong understanding of Mobilink’s business strategy and has supported Mobilink in increasing its subscriber base to almost 30 million GSM subscribers.

 

“Today’s announcement with Mobilink and Orascom Telecom for WiMAX highlights both the long-term viability of this solution and the vibrancy of Pakistan’s communications sector. We are proud to be building on our long relationship with Mobilink in Pakistan with the deployment of WiMAX, a technology that is set to have a transformative effect for Mobilink and its customers, providing unprecedented wireless broadband speed and accessibility,” said Ali Amer, vice president sales, Middle East, Africa and Pakistan, Motorola Home & Networks Mobility.”

 

He continued: “This is another example of Motorola’s continued commitment to bringing the latest technology to Pakistan, from delivering the first GSM network in 1994 to the country’s first nationwide WIMAX 802.16e network in 2006. This second Motorola WiMAX 802.16e network in Pakistan, delivered to our long-standing customer Mobilink, further reinforces the confidence of our Pakistan-based customers in Motorola’s technology and services”

 

With this partnership, the customers of Mobilink in Pakistan are expected to get rapid broadband access, even in geographic areas where broadband coverage was not previously available. For unified pre-paid billing, WiMAX is expected to offer an easy end user solution. With the new Motorola-based 802.16e-2005 WiMAX network, Mobilink can extend its current service offering to high speed broadband and VoIP services for fixed-line residential and business subscribers, covering major metropolitan areas, such as Lahore and Islamabad.

 

Motorola was previously awarded a turnkey end-to-end nationwide WiMAX/IMS network in 2006. Motorola’s regional and global leadership is emphasized by the fact that this is the company’s fourth commercial WiMAX deployment in the Middle East and Africa region.