ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Anusha Rahman Khan, addressing the Nokia Networks conference, has said that the government is utilising all resources for the best coverage of mobile broadband services for the benefit of greater socio-economic development.
The minister said that Nokia Networks’ commitments and advanced 2G, 3G and 4G mobile broadband technologies will significantly contribute to provide high-quality mobile broadband services in the country at par with leading services around the world.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Chairman Dr Syed Ismail Shah has said that the conference had brought out excellent insights on how to achieve further mobile broadband penetration, and gave the opportunity to reiterate our ambitions to covert technology innovation into benefits for the Pakistan population. Nokia Networks is demonstrating its latest innovations announced at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2015 in the areas of 5G, security, liquid applications, big data and analytics, and small cells.
Nokia Networks Country General Manager Saeed Qadri said: “Pakistan is an important market, and we are committed to helping the country build a reliable, secure, next-generation mobile broadband infrastructure for data traffic that, compared to 2010, will grow 1000 times by 2020, as per Nokia prediction. Accordingly, we are showcasing to all operators here how our latest innovations can help them improve network capacity, speed and coverage for better mobile broadband experience and penetration across the country.”