The Worldcall Group of Pakistan on Monday signed Rs 720 million agreement with Huawei Electronics of China to collaborate in setting up a Wireless Local Loop (WLL) system in South of Pakistan.
According to a spokesman of the company, the contract award marks a major milestone in Worldcall positioning as a premier WLL operator in Pakistan. The contract includes line capacity infrastructure deployment for Worldcall WLL operations. Worldcall contract with Huawei for South of Pakistan will focus Karachi and Hyderabad as principal target areas. Service launch under this turnkey contract is planned for first quarter 2007. Besides the basic telephony services, WLL brings more value to the network by offering high speed Internet access, multi media, bandwidth on demand and fast file transfer.
'Pakistan is witnessing an unprecedented growth in demand and the wired network alone is not enough to keep up with it. This is especially true in areas where existing cables would require costly or time-consuming upgrades to provide high-speed, high-quality Internet access', the spokesman pointed out.
According to him, WLL is ideally suited for expansion in an existing wire line network in the provisioning of local telephone service. However the deployment of WLL will depend upon the prevalent market and regional terrain.
Huawei Technologies is one of the world's foremost solution providers for WLL CDMA networks. Selection of Huawei for the turnkey contract was based on excellence of Huawei's technology offering, along with its ability to deliver turnkey solutions on a major scale. In CDMA solution offering, Huawei is already a world leader with matchless profile in 450 MHz solutions deployed for WLL service, the spokesman added.