The satellite that was launched on April 23 this year by Quantam Global Communications (QGC) will be commercialized in March next year, that will ensure that the country will have a satellite-based broadband namely YahClick with higher frequency. Zulfiqar Ali Ursani, Group Chief Technical Officer of Redtone Telecommunication Pakistan Limited while talking to Profit said they are currently at the approval phase and will offer satellite-based broadband in coming March as the broadband trend is picking up in Pakistan.
He further said that satellite technology is enhancing day by day, and their satellite band is ‘Ku extended’, which offers the user better cost and availability options than conventional Ku-band. The brand name of the satellite-based broadband is YahClick and this would work in two scenarios that include urban and rural targets, while charges of Customer Premises (CP) would be around $700. In addition, the customer has to pay around $40 monthly for the service. He said that generally satellite solutions cost $2000, but they are offering a plausible package for satellite based network which is an ideal product for the Pakistani market. It will cater broadband services in areas where telecommunication infrastructure does not exist. The other option named Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN) is also quite expensive for Pakistan as its running cost for 512kb is $400 thousand, he added.
