Presentation at Afghanistan Summit

The Opportunity

May 23, 2011 Dubai Wateen’s Network

Wateen Optical Fiber Cable (OFC) Network providing inter and intra city connectivity across the country Mardan 10,000+ km covering all the four WiMAXMetro Fiber Cities Peshawar provinces of Pakistan and providing metro Nowshera Cities Abbotabad connectivity in 22 major cities of Pakistan Kohat Taxila Ahmedbanda Islamabad KarachiLahore Mandi Gujar Khan DWDM Deployment of 160 Lambda Bahauddin FaisalabadLahore Khushab scalability Bannu Kharian PeshawarQuetta Gujrat Mianwali Sialkot Sargodha Wagah IslamabadMultan 76 existing ADM Sites and increasing Karak Gujranwala Chiniot Jhang Faisalabad Raiwind HyderabadPindi International Connectivity with D I Khan Gojra Kasur Pattoki GujranwalaFaisalabad T T Singh Sahiwal Okara Neighboring Countries (Afganistan via Bhakkar Chichawatni Pakpattan IslamabadSialkot Quetta Layyah Torkham and Chaman, Khanewal Arifwala GujranwalaRawalpindi Kot Addu Burewala Iran via Taftan, SialkotGujrat Qureshi Chowk Vehari Taftan Dringer Mach Chaghi D G Khan SargodhaSahiwal India via Wagah, and Muzaffargarh Nokundi Nushki Mailsi Sibbi Fazilpur SargodhaQuetta China via Khunjerab) Ahmanwal Mastung Lodhran Kharan Dalbadin Rojhan Bahawalpur MultanGujrat Surab Dera Murad Jamali Khandkot MPLS Core for QoS Liaquatpur Salimabad Basima Jacobabad SahiwalJhelum Khanpur Dharki Rahim Yar Khan BahawalpurD. I. Khan 22 Cities WiMAX Network Sadiqabad Nag Shikarpur Mashkhel Washuk Nal Khuzdar Sukkur AbbottabadPeshawar Sobhodero Satellite connectivity (VSAT & DVB-RCS) Panjgoor Larkana Ranipur Johi Amirabad Sukkur 10 VSAT hub sites in country Hoshab Thano Bula Khan Daulatpur AbbotabadDI Khan Dadu Nawan Wali Muhammad Td.Adam HyderabadRY Khan Footprint on Pakistan and Nawabshah Berani Jam Nawaz Ali Jehlum Afghanistan Gawader Kalri Hyderabad Mirpur Khas Jamshoro Okara Nooriabad Umer Kot Judho Triple Play Services HFC & GPON Karachi Thatta Chachro Sheikhupura Sujawal JatiTando Bhago Gharo Data & Mirpur Sakro Badin Islamkot Chuhar Nagar Parkar Ghora Bari Shah Bandar Jamali Voice Kati Bandar Video AFPAK Optical Fiber Network

AFPAK OFC RING Connecting Afghanistan to the World TW1 SMWE4

SMWE3 AFPAK Optical Fiber Network

Connecting Afghanistan to the World Pakistan Broadband Experience Curve

Source: PTA Annual Report Opportunity for Afghanistan

Your OPPORTUNITY is LIMITLESS You are in a High Value – Low Every Fixed Line connection is your target Volume Market Internet subscriber New Services are crucial for survival of Every Broadband consumer is your target telecom companies Voice subscriber Telecom, Media, and IT (TMT) will Simply deploying fiber to customer sites eventually converge using high capacity VSAT bandwidth, will E-Government Services require (at least) more than 2 x STM16 of E-Business Entertainment IP Transit, this year Content will be the only common Your only possible loss is: denominator for convergence TIME IS NOT ON YOUR SIDE Remember illiteracy has negligible impact Deregulation is Mandatory by ITU on an internet that is, NOW, mostly Long Term planning and investment is the accessed for VIDEO based services key to successful infrastructure deployment Video based services are the market drivers Competition can take away the opportunity today in no time VoIP based services will drive the next Agility is your key to success Voice-Wave Customer Service will be the final Content will be the KING when convergence denominator of service takes place for TMT You have an opportunity to learn from It will happen faster than our your neighbour expectation Just as Video happened faster than our expectation Opportunity for Afghanistan

E-Government Services Entertainment Government services delivery via Internet IPTV Agriculture – Prices, Water Availability, Crop Regional and National language content – Protection, Farmer Education, etc. Music, Video, Movies, etc. Health – BHU & Doctors contacts, Gaming Vaccinations, Telemedicine, etc. Window shopping Education – School & College contacts, Social Networking Admissions, Courseware, Examination, Afghanistan ‘Youtube’ Results, Fee Payment, Distant Education, New Services etc. Audio Conferencing Judicial system Video Telephony E-Business Video Conferencing E-Commerce (B2C) Security & Surveillance Information, Maps, Travel, Tickets (Bus & Bill Payment Train), etc. Societal Benefit Tax payment and Refunds for Individual Eliminating the human interface reduces tax payers corruption Procurement (B2B) Creates self-employment opportunity SMB and Self Employed Individual Economic Benefit businesses Telecom contributes 5% of GDP Supplier registration, Products catalogue Only new services will enable telecom & pricing companies to survive Voice will shrink to ‘free’ service when ‘VoIP’ is legalized 

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