Pakistan

28 January, 2008 - Telenor Pakistan has launched another environmentally-friendly initiative by using solar energy to power one of its repeater sites.

Telenor Pakistan is the country's first mobile communications services provider to have started using solar energy to power a commercial site.

"We are first in the industry to have started using solar energy to power a commercial site. We aim to help reduce the load on the national power grid through innovative solutions and in longer term we mean to upscale this pilot project to other parts of the country after assessing its success", said Chief Technical Officer Telenor Pakistan Peter Anthony Dindial.

Telenor Pakistan Solar Repeating Station

A repeater, as the name suggests, is a tool that picks up, amplifies and transmits the cell phone signals to and fro the nearest base station. Repeaters are used by mobile operators to increase network coverage in a confined area, either indoor or outdoor.

Solar-electricity hybrid system

January 16, 2008 -- Telenor Pakistan now has passed 15 million customers - a landmark it has achieved in less than three years of operations.

In 2007, the company grew nearly 200 per cent in terms of customers, experiencing the highest growth in the industry in Pakistan by a wide margin compared to its competitors.

Telenor Pakistan different from the competitors
"Telenor Pakistan is obviously different from the competition. Our culture is different, our values are different, and our focus on business fundamentals is a little different as well. We are building core strengths and utilizing them better than anyone else at this point I believe."

Today we have the second largest network with the highest GPRS and EDGE capability, the most diverse products and services, the quickest growing distribution and one of the strongest organisations in the industry. Telenor Pakistan is fully involved with its key stakeholders and trusted as a friend of the community, "said a proud Tore Johnsen, CEO, Telenor Pakistan.

Valued operator

Sees 2008 as the year for WiMAX customer premises equipment, devices, applications and experiences as more customers launch networks

ARLINGTON HTS., Ill., 17 December 2007 -- Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT), a leading provider of wireless broadband solutions, today issued a year-end update on its wi4 WiMAX solutions and customer engagements. During 2007 Motorola increased to15 its number of contracts for commercial WiMAX networks and demonstrated the historic first live mobile WiMAX 802.16e handoffs between continuous WiMAX cells supporting voice, data and multimedia applications during WiMAX World USA in Chicago.

The company also:

* Increased to more than 57 the number of WiMAX engagements in 38 countries worldwide, including 44 active trials.
* Is on track to support Sprint/Xohm™ soft launch in Chicago by year end 2007 and is on schedule with deployment for the planned commercial launch in Q2 2008
* Delivered thousands of access points to customers worldwide and delivered tens of thousands of CPE units or PC cards for customer engagements including trials and commercial deployments currently underway