Augere Pakistan to invest $10mln in LTE

KARACHI: A Dutch telecom firm would roll out long-term evolution (LTE) technology in 11 cities across the country with an investment of $10 million, officials said on Tuesday. 

Augere Pakistan will become the first company in the country to deploy corporate LTE in 11 cities, they said at a seminar.

Currently, LTE service is available to mobile phone users alone, but with the introduction of LTE for corporate sector, businesses would get high-speed uninterrupted bandwidth and connectivity essential to run their business operations.

Newly planned premium corporate LTE by Augere will be capable of delivering speeds of up to 100 megabytes per second per customer. In the phase one, Augere is investing over $10 million for the network deployment.

Initially the LTE service is being launched in Sukkur, Hyderabad, Peshawar, Quetta, Sialkot, Sargodha, Faisalabad, Multan, Rahim Yar Khan, Gujranwala and Gujrat. The company planned to upgrade the WIMAX network in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Rawalpindi by the end of 2017.

Jamal Nasir Khan chief executive officer at Augere said the technology would offer reliable LTE connectivity with optimum latency over licensed frequency band that too at highly affordable pricing than fiber, a satellite communications system very small aperture terminal and radio links.

Augere Pakistan, an IT company with Dutch origin, has been providing wireless broadband services under the brand name of Qubee inside the country since 2010.