Telenor Pakistan has become the Pakistan first telco to have done a Universal Service Fund launch and that too before time. To celebrate the achievement, Chief Technical Officer Telenor Pakistan Khalid Shehzad and CEO Universal Service Fund Company Parvez Iftikhar jointly inaugurated a BTS (Base Transceiver Station) booth position in locality Bahawalpur’s Cholistan desert last week. This cubicle sited is one of the entire 39 sites of USF Bahawalpur envisage that have been set up for this communication deprived vicinity. USF promotes the development of telecom military in un-served and under-served areas throughout the span and size of the country. The account consists of contributions (1.5% of adjusted revenues) by the Telecom Operators with no government funding difficult.
The Bahawalpur Cholistan District BTS cell sites set up by Telenor Pakistan will give coverage to the farthest areas of Cholistan desert and a previously un-served population of 242,000, over a zone of 20,000 sq kms. The Bahawalpur Lot covers 22% of the region and 11% of the full estimated population of Punjab Province and includes Bahawalnagar, Bahawalpur and Rahim Yar Khan Districts.
Commenting on the opportune completion of the USF propel, Chief Technical Officer Khalid Shehzad said, “It is our pleasure to impart bass and extensive achieve to un-served and under-served areas such as the Cholistan desert. We are thrilled with our develop and hope to realize all our coming projects with the same levels of effectiveness. We judge that such projects are significant in provisos of increasing advantage penetration in the rural areas.”
Universal Services Fund’s CEO, Parvez Iftikhar, while congratulating Telenor Pakistan on the successful completion of the scheme, said, “USF is free to maintain bringing significant advances towards enhancement of telecom navy, both in rural as well as city areas of the country. The completion of the Bahawalpur plan is an important stage towards the flaxen and efficient utilization of the account. We are also encouraging our contractors to go for Alternative Energy Solutions and are contented to know that Telenor Pakistan is taking the initiative in this concern.”
This is the first time a cellular worker has delivered a USF project even before the assigned spot of twelve months. Universal Service Fund and Telenor Pakistan entered the contract to afford main telephony and data services in un-served areas of Bahawalpur on September 22, 2008. Telenor auxiliary diplomacy to uplift 19 sites in this Project with solar energy thus pioneering Green Energies in telecommunication sector on size degree.
