Pak Datacom, O3b Sign Satellite Capacity Deal

Pak Datacom has signed a multi-year, multi-million dollar agreement as O3b’s exclusive supplier of services into the Pakistan market. The agreement will provide national and international satellite capacity to all borders of Pakistan.

This agreement is of great value for the Pakistani market as fiber quality, high speed internet and data connectivity would be provided through satellite to any location of Pakistan where no other connectivity is available.

“We are excited about the possibilities O3b’s technology will bring to our market. The Pakistan market will remain reliant on satellite technology, due to terrain limitations that prevent the deployment of reliable, cost effective fiber optic and backhaul networks. O3b’s Medium Earth Orbit satellites provide us with fiber like capacity and cutting edge backhaul solutions, to address the burgeoning needs of fixed and mobile operators in Pakistan. O3b’s technology puts Pak Datacom in a unique position to provide continuous capacity that will intercept the increasing demand we see for high bandwidth services.” Ali Akhtar Bajwa, CEO/MD, Pak Datacom Ltd.

“We are pleased to add Pak Datacom to our growing list of exclusive resellers in our key markets. Pak Datacom has reserved sufficient capacity to provide national coverage, totaling some 1728 Megahertz of raw capacity. Countries like Pakistan are well positioned to provide back office support to the global business community; provided they have the right connectivity solution. This is great news for mobile operators in the country in need of low cost, high quality capacity to relieve network congestion and address the increasing challenge of lower network ARPU’s (average revenue per user)” John Finney, EVP Sales and Marketing, O3b Networks.


  • Watch out PTCL Watch out Wimax Operators Watch out Satellite Internet Operators Watch out DSL players Watch out FTTH providers… this technology will disrupt you all.

    Way to go Pak Datacom!

  • Its good to know that we deploying this kind of Technology.

    There is a company in U.S.A also deploying this kind of network called Light Square to target a whole sale market for cellular and high speed Broadband and i guess Pakistan’s a second country to bring this whole kind of new idea.

    I am proud to be a Pakistani.

  • yes. They are also starting to give dsl connections via satellite in our village panjgur as optic fiber line hasn’t reached here yet. They are testing it so may be in a weak or in a month they will launch it.

  • yes it will work and bring the village living comunity to the main stream, it will be good that if they conect my village with the DSL like net if they did than it will be a gr8 achiement .


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