Oct to Nov 2010 - Teletimes

tive bandwidth market was
created. This promise of a new
competitive marketplace was
a driving force behind Transworld’s
formation. Granted a
2nd landing license in 2003,
Transworld is the cornerstone
of Pakistan’s broadband revolution
and the key service enabler
behind market makers
like Wateen, Mobilink, Worldcall,
Wi-tribe, Augere etc that
are largely responsible for
Pakistan’s broadband growth
and providing the consumer
market with alternatives to
PTCL. “TWA embarked on this
project
Diagram
of key strategic
showing
nation-
TWA cable
Pakistan,”
system and
states
connectivity
Kamran
to
Ma-
all major regions of the world
al importance with a vision of
bringing high-speed communications
technology to fuel the
growth of IT and Telecom in
lik, President and Chief Operating
Officer of Transworld Associates
(Pvt.), Ltd.
Transworld has built a state of
the art submarine cable system
that connects Pakistan
to two major communication
hubs in the Middle East and
onwards through connectivity
to the world’s major communication
infrastructures and
provides internet and international
communication connectivity
to Pakistan’s ISPs, telcos
and selected corporates. Transworld
Associates Private Limited
(TWA) is a joint venture
between Orascom Telecom of
Egypt and the Saif Group of
Pakistan. Transworld operates
and owns its own undersea
fiber optic cable system. According
to Zulfiqar Qazilbash,
TWA Director of Sales and
Marketing, “Transworld’s business
strategy is structured
around offering quality, tailor
made end-to-end international
bandwidth solutions to
customers in Pakistan. We are
successful because we bend
backwards to support our customers”.
Transworld is Pakistan’s first
Transworld has built a state of the art submarine
cable system that connects Pakistan to two major
communication hubs in the Middle East and onwards
through connectivity to the world’s major communication
infrastructures and provides internet and international
communication connectivity to Pakistan’s ISPs, telcos
and selected corporates.
and only private submarine
cable operator – the alternative
carrier does not have a
submarine cable system of its
own but has acquired capacity
in international cables passing
through the region. The system,
known as TW1, has a total capacity
of 1.28 Tbps, which easily
meets and far exceeds the
needs of Pakistan currently
and for the foreseeable future.
Transworld’s state of the art,
high quality network stretches
1,274 Km in the Arabian Sea.
As Syed Amiruddin TWA Director
of Engineering puts it,
“TW1 offers the much needed
high value international bandwidth
services to the recently
deregulated and rapidly developing
telecom and IT sectors
of Pakistan”
Through its submarine cable
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