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Thursday, 20 March 2008 |
ZTE has won a tender from Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited ("PTCL"), the biggest state-owned operator in
Pakistan and an affiliate company of multinational carrier Etislat, to build part of the country's largest WDM backbone transmission network. The project, an expansion of the PTCL 400G WDM backbone network also exclusively won by ZTE last year, will involve the deployment of a WDM ring in
Quetta and a WDM chain from
Rawalpindi to Mensehra. Upon completion of the two new projects, PTCL will have the most comprehensive WDM backbone network capable of providing the widest range of telecom services in the country. The network coverage will span up to 6000km running through most of the major cities and regions, carrying more than 60% of long haul data, voice, Internet and other services in
Pakistan.
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