People don’t tend to think of Iraq as a place with a heaping helping of innovation. The events of the past seven years or so often bring to mind explosions, unrest, and other war-like circumstances that we imagine has left them in a state more reminiscent of the stone age than the modern one. Slowly but surely our perceptions of the fertile crescent nation have emerged from the gutter to see a place where civilization is no myth and progress is a reality, and not just on a socio-political level. Technologically, Iraq is doing their part to keep pace with other emerging nations and at the forefront of that effort is Fanoos Telecom.
The Kurdistan-based carrier boasting “Iraq’s most reliable wireless broadband service” and 250,000 subscribers is going 4G, or more accurately, they’re setting up a WiMax network to bring their customers what the International Telecommunications Union now considers not-quite-4G. Utilizing Tellabs® SmartCore™ 9160 platform as its chief tool of deployment, the service will offer high performance and interoperability with multiple radio access network vendors. CEO Hiwa Rauf believes this specific equipment set has the ability to help his company “develop a complete network and avoid single vendor lock-in…” The aim is to “create an interoperable wireless broadband system that’s ready for future expansion,” but for now they’re concentrating their efforts on focal points in the North, distributing the new network to the cities of Sulaimaniyah, Mosul and Kirkuk. Fanoos hopes to complete their WiMax rollout to those key cities by the end of this year.
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Telecom will use WiMAX complete solution from Huawei Technology. The $10 million project aims to provide broadband Internet services to 6 million Iraqi citizens in Kurdistan.
The Mobile wireless network offers several new Broadband internet services for the student, small and mid-sized enterprise (SME) sector and large enterprise organizations. The WiMAX service will allow provisions of up to about 18 Mbps per sector in the three sector base stations that 7netlayers uses.
7Netlayers was established in 2008 by a group of Iraq/Kurdish and Lebanese investors whose vision was to deliver cutting edge technology and state-of-the-art interconnectivity solutions to the corporate industry and to the growing needs of consumers in Iraq-Kurdistan. Even though 7Netlayers obtained its license in 2007, it was not until May 2009 that it started its operations and launched commercial services in January 2010 using the latest WiMAX 208.16e mobile technology to deliver the Mobile Broadband Wireless Access.
Feb. 20, 2010 – 7Netlayers Telecom, an Iraq national telecom operator, has launched the first Mobile wireless broadband WiMAX network in Iraq, Kurdistan-Erbil. 7Netlayers Telecom will use WiMAX complete solution from Huawei Technology. The $10 million project aims to provide broadband Internet services to 6 million Iraqi citizens in Kurdistan.
The Mobile wireless network offers several new Broadband internet services for the student, small and mid-sized enterprise (SME) sector and large enterprise organizations. The WiMAX service will allow provisions of up to about 18 Mbps per sector in the three sector base stations that 7netlayers uses.
7Netlayers was established in 2008 by a group of Iraq/Kurdish and Lebanese investors whose vision was to deliver cutting edge technology and state-of-the-art interconnectivity solutions to the corporate industry and to the growing needs of consumers in Iraq-Kurdistan. Even though 7Netlayers obtained its license in 2007, it was not until May 2009 that it started its operations and launched commercial services in January 2010 using the latest WiMAX 208.16e mobile technology to deliver the Mobile Broadband Wireless Access.
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