Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), Maj. Gen. (R) Amir Azeem Bajwa, met with the Vice-President Commercial Starlink and CEO Starlink Pakistan at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2022 (MWC) in Barcelona.
Chairman PTA meeting with Starlink officials at the GSMA Mobile World Congress (#MWC22).
The delegations discussed the regulatory, technical and commercial aspects of Starlink’s application to offer its #broadband services in Pakistan. pic.twitter.com/GgVwy63oxe
— PTA (@PTAofficialpk) March 2, 2022
The delegations discussed the regulatory, technical, and commercial aspects of Starlink’s application to offer its broadband services in Pakistan. Both sides agreed to work out modalities through further engagement in the near future.
MWC Barcelona (formerly Mobile World Congress, but still widely known as MWC) is a GSMA-organized annual trade event focusing on the mobile communications industry.
The event is held in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain at the Fira de Barcelona Gran Via, usually in February or early March. It is attended primarily by device manufacturers, network equipment providers, representatives of wireless carriers, and the press, among others. It attracts roughly 100,000 people each year, and mobile phone makers frequently use the event to announce new products.
Telecom representatives and ministers from all over the world attended the conference.
if 5g in Pakistan Manages to cover 80% of Population with average Throughput of 500Mbps then I don’t think that Starlink have any chance in that case considering their Steep Price.
but then again the Qualifiers that I have mentioned above regarding 5g is also as they say in Urdu “A deewanay ka Khawab”, so you never know, starlink might carve out its Niche
Starlink should definitely reconsider their monthly subscription fee for asian countries or other countries that are poor otherwise it won’t serve it’s purpose of getting internet to every corner of the world. Regarding 5G I don’t think we will be any good than our current condition. The same internet will be getting shared through 5G antennas which we are using right now anyway where we see pings of 600+ ms in gaming very often & sometimes you won’t get any internet at all despite full bars 4G reception. With every generation we are going higher in frequency so the issue arises of coverage because higher frequency tends to travel very little and can’t possibly cover a large area due to which the solution would be to install as many more cell phone towers as possible which is hard for the telcos so it’s not looking good at all.