wi-tribe Pakistan has announced its recognition by ACCA Pakistan, as an Approved Employer at the Platinum level entailing Professional and Trainee Development. Under this program wi-tribe will receive a tailored package of services designed to help attract, develop and retain high caliber accounting and finance professionals. ACCA will provide account...
Wi-Tribe has announced its network expansion plans for WiMAX broadband operations in Pakistan. For the purpose, company has awarded the services contract to Nokia Siemens Networks to provide a unique solution comprising of site delivery services and project management. “Our aim is simple – to make wireless broadband a way of life in Pakistan,”...
Wateen employees after tough time last year, when they had to wait for weeks for their salaries, are relieved with up to 6 bonuses and 25 percent increment in salaries, across the board. This is quite a news for industry in current situation. We know that Wateen has grabbed good funding through IPO and recovery from telecom operators from home and abroad. During...
Wi-Tribe Pakistan gets Sami Hinedi as acting CEO, after Mohammad Sadiq, Ex-CEO of Wi-Tribe Pakistan has moved back to the parent company QTel, revealed our sources. Sami’s appointment at Wi-Tribe Pakistan is told as routine management re-shuffle. Mohammad Sadiq is now part of management board at Qtel. Sami brings 23 years of experience spanning the...
Statistically, Broadband subscribers have reached 585,945 at the end of November, 2009 as compared to 564,352 subscribers in October. This shows a net addition of 21,593 subscribers with a growth rate of 4% as compared to 13% in November 2009. Broadband penetration level has hit 0.36%. WiMAX operators snatched another one percent market share from fixed...
First time in history of WiMAX industry, Wateen’s RAN team has on-aired four sites without involving its vendor, Motorola. Reportedly, due to delay in delivery from vendor’s side, one of Wateen’s RAN team took the initiative and deployed 4 sites, which are as of now on-air and live in southern region. Lead by Tehseen Ahmed, Syed Yasir Uddin is...
Wateen Telecom Limited has planned to offer 110 million ordinary shares to the general public at a price of Rs 10 per share with a greenshoe option of 90 million shares, reported business recorder today. In this regard, Wateen has applied for listing at Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE). Arif Habib Limited has been mandated to act as Financial Advisor and...
Wateen has been operating in Pakistan for couple of years now, with being the first WiMAX operator of the country. Despite the fact that Wateen was able to fetch pretty number of customers, spread wide its infrastructure, coverage, back haul, but unfortunately, somehow it could not leave the impression in the minds of customers. If you just Google around,...
When there is every map (digital & non-digital) available for you to guide you inward and outward of city, then there is a great need of coverage maps too. The maps from operators which tells us that where they have service coverage. The localities, the streets & the houses!!! We have four wimax operators in total. Some are aggressive and some...
Qubee has come up with an exciting offer for new customers in connection with New Year Celebrations. They have waived off all the connection charges on Non-Wifi Connections and also dropped the charges on Wi-fi connection. Here is the detail of the offer.. Connection Charges-Non Wifi: ZERO (Waived) Connection Charges-Wifi Service: PKR (3,000) 1,500 Modem...
Building on its global WiMAX leadership position, Motorola Inc.’s Home & Networks Mobility business announced today that Wateen Telecom has accelerated its rollout of WiMAX services and is on its way to doubling its existing customer premises equipment (CPE) volume from 100,000 to 200,000 by year end. Motorola remains Wateen’s exclusive WiMAX...
We reported earlier that Wateen was having trouble with cash in hand; however, the situation has changed during last month. We are now told by sources with-in the company that Wateen has recovered hefty amount from Warid and couple of other international vendors that includes Saudi Telecom. So the crisis is apparently over and company is back on track. By...
Ever you caught in a situation when you had got no landline (meaning that no DSL) while WiMAX antenna is offering you only the half of signals, maybe 2 bars out of 5? Here we got another Guru from Pakistan teaching us how to strengthen WiMAX Signals. It’s sort of new research that he carried and found very interesting results – let us share with...
Wi-Tribe came up with excellent advertisement to give the masses a feeling of their brand. Tag line they selected for this ad is “Connect To Change“. In telecom and broadband industry, we are only seeing ads of different packages that are being offered by the respective companies. The target of those ads is mostly to get more sales leads....
DU, the integrated telecom service provider in the UAE, in collaboration with Motorola successfully implemented Mobile Wimax operation for Dubai Metro. Here is what the press release said: With the implementation of Motorola’s WiMAX network, du offers its customers wireless internet access whilst travelling on the metro at speeds of up to 90km/hr...
