ISLAMABAD, May 12: Pakistan mobile operator Warid Telecom has launched its commercial GSM/GPRS service covering 28 major cities with a total population of around 32 million. Addressing a joint press conference here on Thursday Chief Executive Officer of Warid Telecom Hamid Farooq said that Warid Telecom would offer post-paid and prepaid services, short messaging services (SMS) and multimedia messaging service (MMS) to its customers from Friday.
“We want to be the operator that Pakistani will choose to get best connected in Pakistan. We want our customers to get the best technology, the most reliable network and widespread coverage as well high quality service,” he said. Meanwhile, in a ceremony at a local hotel, Warid Telecom signed, what it called strategic alliance, with a number of companies namely Nokia, Huawei Technologies, Frontier Works Organization (FWO) and Ericsson.
His Highness Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, Chairman signed the agreement on behalf of the Warid Telecom. Nokia will supply mobile phones to Warid, to be bundled and sold to the operator’s subscriber identity module customers.
Huawei, a Chinese-based company signed two contracts worth $54 million with Warid Telecom to provide over one million GSM (global system of mobile phones) subscriber radio network capacity covering more than 50 cities in Pakistan and building transmission backbone covering 5000 kilometres. Chairperson Ms Sun Ya Fang, signed the agreement on behalf of Huawei.
