Wateen Opens Sales Office in Islamabad

Wateen Telecom's Wimax has been delayed for almost two years now. Other than flashy ads, last mile services of Wateen Telecom are non-existent, zero, zilch! Add to that poor RF planning and the fact that the current Wimax APs cannot deliver the type of bandwidth that the Corporate customer is demanding. 100Mbps full duplex? On Wimax? Who are you kidding man!

So imagine my surprise when strolling down an Islamabad Road I actually was able to locate a new Wateen Office. A quick call to a Wateen insider revealed that this was the office of a Franchisee and not Wateen itself. Well, we'll find out in a couple of days.

Nota Bene My views of Wateen's Wimax service here are based on my own experience of Wimax installation at my house in Islamabad where signal strength was barely enough for a 256Kbps connection. So I never opted for it. However, some of my friends have Wimax and it is working fine. I'll be doing a major post on Wimax soon. The 8 Mbps per sector planning for RF in Islamabad is not enough IMHO. Posts herein represent my own ideas and thoughts and not necessarily those of my employer :-)