Pakistan's largest ICT provider $100 million dollar deal to Revolutionize Broadband Connectivity Acr

[alimohsan52]

Source of the News: http://www.financialpost.com/market...al+Revolutionize+Broadband/8087280/story.html

With the launch of the first four satellites in O3b Networks’ satellite fleet only 78 days away, O3b announced today a strategic agreement with Pakistan’s largest ICT company Interactive Esolutions. Using multiple O3b beams to provide coverage of the entire country, Interactive will be providing a full suite of services in Pakistan, including trunking services to underserved regions, cellular backhaul for mobile operators and enterprise and e-government services across the country.

O3b Networks will deliver fiber-like speed at sub 150 millisecond latency and affordable prices, opening the door to new applications and growth opportunities for customers in Pakistan.

Mr. Shahid Mahmud, Chairman/CEO Interactive Group said, “We are extremely excited about this agreement as we strongly believe that the Pakistani market offers immense appetite for bandwidth and data. Our customer base varies from Telecom operators to large and small enterprise across the country. We anticipate great demand in the Oil & Gas sector, Health, Education, Shipping and Government sectors. We are happy that Interactive will be contributing to the growth of broadband through this state of the art technology. We firmly believe that together we will usher in a new era of Internet usage proliferating the positive effects of connectivity amongst the people of Pakistan.”

“We are honored to support Interactive Group in continuing their history of technical innovation and service to Pakistan,” said Steve Collar, CEO of O3b Networks. “Pakistan, with its burgeoning population and growing economy is in desperate need for state of the art communications infrastructure. By overcoming the geographical hurdles presented by mountainous terrain, working together with Interactive we can ensure that broadband connectivity is available across the entire country.”

O3b’s unique eight satellite, Medium-Earth-Orbit fleet enables affordable, high-speed connectivity in places where traditional satellite and fiber offerings are unavailable or extremely costly.

About Interactive E Solutions, JLT (an Interactive Group Company)
Interactive Group is the leading ICT provider in Pakistan and provides a vast portfolio of products and services in the ICT domain to the public and corporate sector in Pakistan. Interactive has undertaken large telecommunications infrastructure project like establishing Paktel Limited with Cable & Wireless; now Zong a China Mobile a cellular company, first Nationwide VSAT networks for the Public sector, free to air TV channels over satellite; National Police ICT infrastructure; building tens of data centers; a public safety network that interconnects all the police stations in Pakistan amongst others. Interactive Group’s Ultimate purpose is “To solve pressing issues of society” by leveraging technology to address the challenges of the 21[SUP]st[/SUP] century.

About O3b Networks Limited
O3b Networks Limited is a global satellite service provider building a next-generation satellite network for telecommunications operators, Internet service providers, and enterprise and government customers in emerging markets. The O3b system will combine the global reach of satellite with the speed of a fiber‐optic network providing billions of consumers and businesses in nearly 180 countries with low‐cost, high‐speed, low latency Internet and mobile connectivity. O3b Networks’ investors include SES, Google, Liberty Global, HSBC Principal Investments, Northbridge Venture Partners, Allen & Company, Development Bank of Southern Africa, Sofina, Satya Capital and Luxempart. O3b Networks is headquartered in St. Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands.

 

[alimohsan52]

I think one of the top priorities for any new government should be to encourage competition within IT services sector, so there are less monopolies operating in the market structure. Further deregulation should be done with more contracts going to small and medium sized enterprises.

 

[Okara Bull]

More Internet more facebook more you tube. Every time one opens facebook or youtube account He/she add 0.0022$ in facebook/youtube account. It works as more viewership FB/youtube have more advertisement they get... FB/Youtube is 80 billion $ US company buy these companies thousand of Americans graduates get job but we are at consumer end. SO it is there business to spread the net in all young people to make there USA economy stronger... Pak need to put more in education not just internet.. what wil happpen more FB user more Youtube user and it direct goes benefits to US graduates.. Our priority should be more in education one can read in article about pak education standard.

http://tribune.com.pk/story/519700/english-language-and-higher-education/
For over 30 years, I have been engaging with graduate historians from Pakistan.
Some have been students, who have come to work with me for a PhD or DPhil, in the universities of London or Oxford. Some have been scholars already in post in Pakistan’s universities, who have been funded by the excellent Higher Education Commission (HEC) scheme, which enables university staff to develop their research skills.
A few already have PhDs, but many do not; they come for periods of three, six or 12 months. Others, I have encountered as the international external examiner of their PhD dissertation submitted to a Pakistan university.
I regret to say that with a few honourable exceptions, the English of this PhD work is poor, and on occasion, unacceptable.
There will be sentences without main verbs; with poor punctuation; sentences which contradict the meaning of what has gone before; words incorrectly used; a general failure to understand the use of the definite and indefinite article; and a general inability to carry an idea from sentence to sentence through a paragraph.
The outcome is language through which meaning can often only hazily be discerned. Sometimes it cannot be discerned at all.
The object of a PhD dissertation is for the candidate to be able to demonstrate that he/she commands a field or sub-field of knowledge and is able, by doing research in primary sources, to contribute to that field with new ideas and/or new facts.
These contributions will generally be made in the framework of an argument that creates an overall context in which these contributions can be understood. Command of English and its niceties is essential to be able to achieve this end.
If the student cannot use language to express meaning clearly, the exercise is meaningless.
When I have remonstrated with students about the quality of their English, one response has been of surprise. “But Sir,” they say, “how could this be? I was taught at school and at university in English and I teach in English myself.”
They do not even know that there is a problem. In this case, I really do wonder what their students actually understand.
It would appear that weakness in English has become a self-reinforcing process. If my history PhDs are representative of Pakistan’s intelligentsia, this weakness must surely undermine the quality of intellectual discourse and public debate carried out in that language.
What should be done to address this problem? First, the HEC might like to consider making a good standard in English, a requirement for obtaining a post in a university History department.
An overall score of seven in IELTS (International English Language Testing System), which is the standard which many English universities require for PhD entry, would be a starting point, although it is not a perfect standard as some of my experiences have revealed.
Second, English language support units might be established in all universities to enable staff and students to reach a real working standard in the language.
Thirdly, those administering postgraduate degrees must be willing to take examiners’ criticism of English standards seriously. When examining, I ask what standards I should apply. The response is usually “those of your university”.
When I do so, I find on occasion that on grounds of English alone, the student should fail. However, my voice is just one of several. I have a strong suspicion that I am ignored. While this is the case, standards will not improve.
I am full of sympathy for those who have to write a major piece of work in what may be their second language. If I had to do this in Urdu, I would not do well. On the other hand, colonialism has left Pakistan with the legacy of English, which presents both difficulties and opportunities.
As Pakistan has decided to adopt English in its higher education system, more needs to be done to make sure that teachers and students are fully equipped to make use of the opportunities English offers.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 13[SUP]th[/SUP], 2013.

 

[alimohsan52]

This is narrow minded thinking to say the least that broadband is only to do with facebook/ and youtube. How absurd can one get? :lol:

 

[jee_nee_us]

What about 3G ? Is it ever going to happen in pakistan?

 

[alimohsan52]

It appears to me some ill informed people have got the wrong message from this article that this is purely to do with FB and youtube etc. This is completely wrong, these services are going to be provided to Small medium sized enterprises and corporate sector. The end user who will benefit is the Pakistani consumer.

These people are so retarded they want to shut down websites in Pakistan because they are against americanism, why are you sitting using your laptop or computer get rid of these as well, because they contain software which is american.

We should encourage our firms to benchmark and work on joint ventures to use the most upto date communication infrastructure so we can progress and compete.

 

[alpha]

Interactive group has only few days left to further loot the country and a specific BIG organization..... they have already eaten up a lot and soon people of Pakistan will come to know the actual reality..People are just waiting for the BIG FISH to go home, who had been constantly supporting them directly or indirectly. and these INTERACTIVE guys will not find any place in Pakistan to hide themselves.

 

[gamechanger]

There is bliss in ignorance and reality is hard to digest. Past and present of one client are two faces of same coin in reality.


Brief List of Interactive Clients http://www.iacgrp.com/clients.php

 

[dumbterminal]

Interactive group has only few days left to further loot the country and a specific BIG organization..... they have already eaten up a lot and soon people of Pakistan will come to know the actual reality..People are just waiting for the BIG FISH to go home, who had been constantly supporting them directly or indirectly. and these INTERACTIVE guys will not find any place in Pakistan to hide themselves.

I stumbled upon this tread in a google search, had been reading it over and over many times among other posts, though I may be young and may not have all the info/details but to me as an audience from outside and a common person, I believe a person has a right to his views but convicting/pointing towards mall intentions without proof is not appropriate. Every man is innocent untill proven guilty and tarnishing someone's repute does not seem appropriate from a true muslim and a Pakistani. There are so many other issues that actually require fixing, why not channel our true intended energies in fixing them rather than steaming off on forums with just words. Pakistan really needs to be fixed from top to bottom and as in any policy/change enforcement, there is always resistance to the change but the change actually starts from the top.

just my 2 cents

Long Live Pakistan!!

 

[Pakistan hain Humara]

There is bliss in ignorance and reality is hard to digest. Past and present of one client are two faces of same coin in reality.


Brief List of Interactive Clients http://www.iacgrp.com/clients.php

Great to see a Pakistani company doing soo well in communications technology. O3b networks is backed by google, Hsbc and others big companies and this idea of broadband over the air is truly incredible.

Ease of communications and GDP are directly proportional so I don't think this can be bad for Pakistanis.

Go Interactive go! It is companies like yours that give me hope for the future of Pakistan:

http://www.iacgrp.com/community.php

 

[Jiyad]

Interactive is not such an organization which arose and became largest entity of the industry over night with the support of so called BIG FISH.

Since I have worked with Interactive as a client therefore i have an idea that currently they are working with both public and commercial sector and are now acquiring international projects as well. I think reason for success of Interactive is introduction of new IT technology in Pakistan.

 

[Ammar01]

Alpha, maybe we should appreciate if some Pakistani company is investing in Pakistan especially in IT sector. Fools like you who are negative and believe in negative propaganda will never let Pakistan progress.

 

[Boxer]

O3b in Pakistanwaooo. Do not know much about Interactive but I must say that they are doing a great job

 

[Numero]

May be Alpha didnt get job in the company hehehehehehehehehe. :lol::lol:

 

[Abdul Shakoor12]

"Interactives profile is impressive."

 

[Naima Akmal]

Serbia leads all countries surveyed with a 68% annual growth rate from Q1 2010 to Q1 2011. Thailand, Belarus, Pakistan, and Jordan follow Serbia. The US is in 78th place worldwide with a 5.7% annual growth rate.

 

[Yumna Hassan]

Indian Army Corps of Signals aims to make the Indian army a network-enabled force by 2012 and network centric force by 2017. The vision of the Corps is 'to achieve electronic and information superiority for effective functioning of the Indian Army'. The responsibilities include setting up a converged, robust, broadband and secure IT infrastructure, both at peace and operational locations of the Indian Army.

 

[Le Imran Kapadia]

Telecom secretary R chandrashekar, c-Dot said that India should keep Huawei and ZTE out of "sensitive government projects" in light of the US congressional report, which stated that both vendors posed a security threat to telecom networks worldwide due to alleged links with the Chinese military.

 

[Fazeel]

As per Naveed Siraj Country Manager Intel Pakistan "World Bank studies indicate that 10 percentage point increase in high-speed internet connections boosts annual GDP growth by 1.38 percentage point. As our broadband installed base is less than 2%, a focused approach towards investment in high-performance broadband access will dramatically transform the economy." Pakistan badly needs O3B type initiatives.

 

[ChaudhrayAlamdaar]

From Asiasat to Paktel, SPTV to Indus TV, from FM-100 to Buraq Radio,and from simple IT applications to enterprise IT System Integration over a span of 28 years Interactive Group has acquired the skill sets to bring benefits of Broadband to Pakistan