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Phase 1 Complete: Evolution of 2.5G RAN towards HSDPA

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3 years ago
by Ammar in , , ,

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.

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More of this later… =)

Looks like 3G is on the Edge..

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3 years ago
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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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WiMAX continues to evolve in Pakistan

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3 years ago
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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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