Huawei wins in Pakistan and Malaysia
Sunday, July 20th, 2008 – 2:59 pmHuawei Technologies of China announced a pair of mobile WiMAX wins this week. The equipment manufacturer will supply 802.16e-2005 network infrastructure to Mobilink of Pakistan and Asiaspace of Malaysia. As a result of the new customer projects, Huawei claims 19 overseas commercial WiMAX contracts.
Mobilink is the largest GSM operator in Pakistan and a subsidiary of Orascom Telecom. The network will be deployed to central business districts and hot spots including the cities of Faisalabad, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi, and Sialkot. Huawei will provide a solution consisting of base stations, Access Service Network (ASN) gateways, and network management system. Work began late last year on the backhaul build-out of 270 wireless links from Canada’s DragonWave Inc. Pakistan also has a significant nationwide network under development from Wateen. The Warid Telecom company announced that it had ordered 198,000 CPE based on the 802.16e-2005 standard from Motorola last year.
The balance of this Huawei article about WiMAX wins in Pakistan and Malaysia is available at WiMax.com
