Nayatel outperformed competition to win Higher Education Commission (HEC) Project

7th July, 2007

Nayatel has been awarded the prestigious Pakistan Educational Research Network (PERN-II) project by Higher Education Commission (HEC). The project awarded after open competitive bidding, involves installation and commissioning of a 10 Gbits optical fiber ring to connect 18 Universities in Islamabad and Rawalpindi. Nayatel would provide dark fiber of 207 km length for this connectivity to be put online within next 3-4 months for contract duration of 10 years.

The competitors in the run for the project were PTCL, Wateen Telecom and Multinet. Nayatel was ranked No. 1 in both technical as well as financial evaluations.

This landmark achievement coincides with the MBL completing its fifth year of leadership in broadband market since we rolled out country’s first ever DSL services on 09 July 2002.

BTRC Visits Nayatel

16th June, 2007

A 7 member delegation of Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) headed by its chairman Maj. Gen (Retd) Manzurul Alam visited Nayatel to discuss issues of mutual interest in regards to scope, potential and adaptability of Next Generation Networks and latest technologies, in context to Bangladesh Telecommunication sector. The delegation showed its keen interest to gain an enhanced understanding on Fiber-to-the-User (FTTU) network infrastructure, and adaptability of converged Triple Play services in meeting 21st century customer needs. The delegation was briefed by Wahaj us Siraj (CEO Nayatel) regarding Fiber optic deployment and BPON network infrastructure in Islamabad, which makes Nayatel first ever FTTU Triple play service provider in South Asian. BTRC delegation was on official visit to Pakistan to discuss potential cooperation issues with Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to deregulate Bangladesh Telecommunication sector, by considering massive growth in Pakistan’s Telecom sector as a benchmark.