The Pakistani subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Group announced Ericsson – a leading hardware provider for telecommunication services – as its technology partner in the roll-out of 4G LTE in Pakistan.
Warid, the only operator that refrained from participating in the mobile spectrum auction earlier this year, will now directly jump from 2G services to 4G technology.
“Warid is gearing up for the 4G LTE launch with the best available network solutions and Ericsson has been committed to provide us with the state-of-art technologies and services,” CEO Warid Telecom, Muneer Farooqui said on the occasion. “Our strong partnership and working relationship with Ericsson has given us complete trust in their technology and execution, making them the preferred partner for this landmark project as well.”
Warid Telecom has already started an internal trial to test the network capacity and service reliability after which public trials will be announced by the company along with a programme for 4G LTE enabled devices as well, the company said in a press release. The company has already started delivering free 4G LTE SIMs to its customers who have 4G LTE enabled handsets, it says.
“We are committed to bringing the Networked Society closer to Pakistan, and to play a role in the evolution of the country’s telecommunication services,” the statement quoted Rafiah Ibrahim, President of Ericsson Region Middle East as saying.
Pakistan is in the midst of an internet revolution, at the heart of which is the increasing uptake of smart devices and mobility. Connectivity via handsets already exceeds the number of connections through fixed line, and majority of first-time users experience the internet for the first time through their smartphones.
Correction: The earlier version of this story said Warid unveiled its LTE logo but the unveiling of Warid’s 4G/LTE logo, as mentioned in the pre-event press release, didn’t take place as planned. The error is regretted.
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its to late now
I need 4g sim
Goodye warid Can't wait anymore. For 4g
Just received Warid 4g LE Sim. Maybe they really are starting it now.
Warid user from years just carrying wait of EVO nitro 3g device for waiting of 3g lye but still waiting .just for the sake of warid stupid promises to there customers I just can't wait and can't let my business tool in waiting queue just switching to other network .God bless and help u warid
@Hassan: The regulator has to provide awarrness in terminal products. Ericsson sold off handset to Sony.
Most un cooperative staff is Warid Telecom staff they behave very roudly to the customers. I'm a priority customer but still they don't respect. One more thing please let us know about 4LTE and also about 4LTE compatible sets.
It will be interesting to see the packages and services of Warid, as there will be no monopoly but a healthy competition between Zong and Warid. Hope that ultimate beneficiary would be the customers.
sorry. do not allow them till they pay license fee or recover it from one who did contract on behalf of GoP
I am a warid user , bought a 4G set .. but now im told my 4g set bandwidth is different from what warid is offering :( warid is far from launching its 4g services , i think i am switching to zong
i feel pretty satisfied with warid service inspite of the fact that they have not lanch 4G the voice quality and customer care are just too Good!!!!
Complete nonsense ! Warid is just fooling their customers since a while. I have been calling them since August asking when is LTE releasing and they've been replying saying within 15 days, and it's October now and nothing has been done. Pathetic service, porting to some other network for sure ! Get lost warid !
Its the third time now. Warid has said this thing before but not done so far let's see if they'll launch 4g on 15th as they're promissing or not.
horrible service & charge heavily .. thts wat warid is all about .. n im sure with LTE they will be more pathetic .. im warid post paid user for past 3 yrs n now seriously plannin to switch !!
do something better than nothing Warid will be appears in this too late but hopefully. Good blessing to Warid family.
Will buy warid sim once they will launch their 4g.
lol what a joke ! i have inside sources at Ericsson and they tell me warid has just cut up existing bandwidth to make room for 4G! they haven't bought anything new at all
Too late .... P.S. .Who cares.
Was a loyal warid customer for the past 9 years but just ported to Zong and seem satisfied so far specially with the 4g services. Ever since the auction of 3g and 4g services they have a press release every month and claim that they will launch LTE services very soon but it's just a time gaining tactic to avoid masses to port to other operators.
The most cooperative customer service.
Whats the point, Warid is the worst provider of telecom services in country and their staff is very unfriendly and least cooperative.When there is no service son grounds what is the point of unveiling logos and promotions.