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05-12-2006, 03:42 AM
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Pak to get 3rd submarine cable
http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=143469
Turns out that when the solitary cable went bust, it was a blessing in disguise.
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ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information Technology Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari Thursday said the government was committed to promoting a healthy competition in the domestic and international connectivity infrastructure so that the users can benefit from enhanced choice and better services.
He was talking to the senior management of Saif group, who are major partners in the consortium laying down Pakistan’s first private sector undersea cable from Karachi to the UAE, in his office here.
The submarine cable system called the TWA 1, expected to come into service in June 2006, will be the third such cable landing into the country and will supplement the SMW3 and the recently inaugurated SMW4 cable systems of PTCL.
He said that reliable and robust infrastructure for cost effective international and domestic connectivity plays a major role in strengthening the base of the market for software export, IT enabled services and business process outsourcing as well as the contemporary telecom services.
He said the commissioning of the new cable will not only improve the redundancy and reliability of international connectivity, it will also introduce competition in the market segment which was hitherto served only by PTCL, hence bringing down prices for high quality international bandwidth services.
The minister further said that the government was working on formulation of policy whereby all the submarine cables landing into the country will complement each other and provide restoration capabilities, through mutual interconnection, in case of failure of anyone cable.
Awais said that another key market segment which will directly benefit from improved international connectivity is the broadband industry. "The government is working on all the fronts to facilitate proliferation of broadband internet in the country and coordinating with PTA to remove further bring down bandwidth rates and improve quality of service and to remove barriers to market entry," he said.
He added that a process was also under way whereby PTA will work with incumbents to improve the quality of the last mile copper and formulate a roadmap for improving Quality of Service (QOS). PTA is also being asked to get the incumbent interconnect offer and have the co-location provisions revisited to facilitate Fiber based access to broadband services, he said.
Emerging wireless broadband technologies like WIMAX, he said, will play a major role in the proliferation of broadband in the country due to ease of deployment. In this regard work is underway and PTA and FAB are being asked to make the appropriate frequencies available, he added.
He clarified that the frequencies that have already been auctioned for the WLL/broadband services and have not been used until now for provision of any service even after passing of initial rollout deadline will be reclaimed after due process and made available for the purpose of broadband provisioning through a transparent mechanism.
Government is striving through a dynamic policy process to make improvements in all the segments of the Telecom and ICT value chain to ensure proportionate growth for consumer benefit as well as ensuring profitable business and increased opportunities for the players involved in provision of all ICT related services, he added.
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