CMPak in AJK
Tee Emm
This area was served by a semi-military, semi-government telecommunication organization that goes by the name of SCO - Special Communication Organization which used to had exclusive rights of telecommunication services in the region. Of late, SCO had collaborated with various companies for WLL, GSM and Internet (DSL & Dialup) to offer these services in the region.
Telekom blog is reporting on this further:
According to the CEO of CMPak, the new licences will allow the company to extend its coverage to the scenic northern parts of the country. In February 2007 Millicom International Cellular (MIC) sold its 88.86% stake in Paktel to China Mobile Communications Corp for USD284 million in cash. In May 2007 China Mobile acquired the outstanding shares from the Arfeen Group (10%) and others. CMPak has embarked on an aggressive network expansion plan since the acquisition, with China Mobile expected to spend USD400 million in 2007 in expanding the network.
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operators would be there as well.
AJK people will finally get connected truly with the rest of world by
virtue of Pta's decision.
On the technical side, while deployment might be a tough task on top
there, but service delivery wouldn't be of much problem. The whole of
AJK and northern areas will be covered by lesser sites as compared to
the cities. One more addition, specially recommended for Paktel, is to
introduce data services in their roll-out in NA/AJK. Since Paktel is
yet to introduce its GPRS service anywhere in Pakistan, which it has
been 'planning' for last 8 months, it would be a good test bench for
them on a live scenario. The added benefit they would have is the
hilly/mountain region which (i) provides better signal strength/
delivery by virtue of reflection and (ii) acts as a container for the
signals within. Thus, any wireless data service there would be far
better than in any of the metropolis full of (Rf/audio) pollution.
All in all, it would be very beneficial for the local people in
N.Areas and it would also be a good business case. AJK/N.Areas is
visited not only by a majority of pakistanis but foreign tourists are
regularly seen there for their hiking & camping obsessions. Visiting
those remote areas would no longer make you feel (esp businessmen)
disconnected from the rest of the world.
On Sep 1, 10:19 pm, "Tee Emm" <tariq.must...@gmail.com> wrote:
> AJK and Northern Areas of Pakistan is a lucrative telecoms market due to the
> historic absence of basic fixed telephone (wired) and a high remittance-rich
> local population with strong connection in the United Kingdom and other
> European countries.
>
> This area was served by a semi-military, semi-government telecommunication
> organization that goes by the name of SCO - Special Communication
> Organization which used to had exclusive rights of telecommunication
> services in the region. Of late, SCO had collaborated with various companies
> for WLL, GSM and Internet (DSL & Dialup) to offer these services in the
> region.
>
> Telekom blog is reporting
> <http://tipon.blogspot.com/2007/09/cmpak-extends-licence-area.html>on this