Mobilink (News - Alert), a major GSM operator in Pakistan, has chosen Huawei to deploy a commercial WiMAX 16e network that will cover central business districts and hot spots in the country’s six major cities.

 

Mobilink will use Huawei’s (News - Alert) complete WiMAX solution, including distributed base stations, an access service network Gateway (News - Alert), and a network management system, and expects the solution will help it meet the country’s increasing broadband needs.

 

By combining the most advanced 4G technologies with multimodal platforms, Huawei’ s mobile WiMAX (News - Alert) solutions provide Mobilink with high quality network coverage. The solutions have the ability to integrate Mobilink’ s existing 2G networks with high-bandwidth capacity networks in the shortest possible time.

 

Huawei officials pointed out that the land is privately owned in Pakistan and there are few copper-line connections. By adopting WiMAX technologies, Mobilink is providing its subscribers with high-speed Internet access services and will be able to save both cost and time.

 

Mobilink is a Pakistan’s subsidiary of Orascom Telecom (News - Alert). The company began its operations in 1994 and up to June, 2005, it has served over seven million subscribers, representing a market share of approximately 61 percent of total mobile subscribers in Pakistan.

 

Huawei has landed a total of 19 commercial WiMAX contracts in Europe, Asia, North America, CIS, Middle East and Africa, and has conducted 35 trials worldwide. The company has been IEEE 802.16 and researching key technologies since 2001 and has reportedly contributed five percent of WiMAX related patents in the world.

 

Huawei recently unveiled its most-advanced WiMAX distributed BTS at the WiMAX Forum Global Congress 2008 in Amsterdam. The BTS is able to help operators build better future-oriented mobile WiMAX networks and reduce resources like equipment room and energy, which are the key to green communications.