Telecom

Phase 1 Complete: Evolution of 2.5G RAN towards HSDPA

3 years ago

by Ammar in Engineering, Final Year Project/Study, Technology, Telecom

We have been studying and planning the path towards deploying HSDPA, a UMTS/W-CDMA extension, in Pakistan. For those of you who are not aware of my Final Year Project, please Read this post first.

The first phase of our Final year Project ( for a Bachelor’s degree in Telecom Engineerng ) is complete, Alhamdulillah. Let me share the presentation with this post.

Click Here to Download the Presentation

More of this later… =)

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Looks like 3G is on the Edge..

3 years ago

by Ammar in By Other Writers, Engineering, Technology, Telecom

News was in from the beginning of the year that by the end of 2008 PTA will auction licenses for 3G. With the year coming to the end, we have not seen this happen. But now with a two-day workshop on 3G (UMTS/WCDMA) Network Planning, it looks like PTA has laid the foundation for licensing the 3G spectrum early next year.

The workshop was held in association with Qualcomm Inc, USA and Central Asian CDMA Forum at PTA headquarters, Islamabad from 4-5 December 2008.

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Three major undersea cables slashed

3 years ago

by Ammar in By Other Writers, Pakistan, Technology, Telecom

Reports have indicated that three major undersea cables, SEA-ME-WE 4 (SMW4), SEA-ME-WE 3 (SMW3) and FLAG EA went out around early morning on Friday. The cables were cut in the Mediterranean between Egypt and Italy. SMW4 and SMW3 are owned by a group of telephone companies from around the world; where as FLAG EA is owned by Reliance Globalcom. These cables carry a high percentage of voice and data traffic between Europe, Middle-East and Asia.

SMW4 and FLAG were also among the five cables that faced a similar damage earlier this year but at that time SMW3 was used to re-route traffic.

France telecom has reported that around 14 countries have been majorly hit by these cable slashes. An estimate shows a following impact on traffic: (more…)

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WiMAX continues to evolve in Pakistan

3 years ago

by Ammar in By Other Writers, Engineering, Technology, Telecom

Arsalan Tariq Mir

Thursday, 18th December 2008

WiMAX in Pakistan emerged commercially with the launch of Wateen in August 2007. Recently, Mobilink has come up with its WiMAX brand ‘Infinity” and now it looks like the competition will soon elevate with Wi-tribe and TeleCard entering the WiMAX service race in Pakistan, the only country in the world having a nationwide commercial deployment of WiMAX services.

Wi-tribe is a joint venture of Qatar Telecom (Qtel) and A.A. Turki Corporation for Trading and Contracting (ATCO) in partnership with Clearwire. Wi-tribe is already offering services in Jordan and in Pakistan it has emerged out of the acquisition of majority stake in Burraq Telecom that occurred more than a year ago. They plan to showcase the real world benefits of Wireless Broadband to Internet community in Pakistan. (more…)

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Final Year Project Proposal Approved!

3 years ago

by Ammar in Final Year Project/Study, Technology, Telecom

Here I am, sharing my Final year Project proposal with everyone. The project was approved on the 27th of September, 2008 by the FYP Committee at FAST-NU Karachi after much deliberations on how to treat study based projects.

Project Title:

Evolution of 2.5G Radio Access Networks towards the prospects of High Speed Packet Downlink Access (HSDPA)

Objective:

The objective of our project is to study and simulate the evolution of 2.5G/EDGE Radio Access Networks (RAN) towards High Speed Downlink Packet Access focusing on architecture update.

Click Here to Download the FYP Proposal