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Nortel Pakistan is a recognized leader in delivering communications capabilities that enhance the human experience, ignite and power global commerce, and secure and protect the nation's most critical information.

Nortel's active participation in the evolution of Pakistan's telecommunications infrastructure began in 2000 when the company was awarded a major turnkey project to supply a GSM 900 digital cellular network to Pak Telecom Mobile Limited (PTML), a newly formed subsidiary of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL). The following year, Nortel was selected to build a GSM 900 infrastructure for Ufone, the country's first Pakistani-owned wireless network and another PTCL subsidiary. Prior to this, Nortel had been operating in Pakistan's enterprise market since 1990 through a local distributor.

Today, Nortel operates from dedicated offices in Islamabad, Lahore and Karachi building on its growing presence to help a wide range of carrier, service provider and enterprise customers leverage advanced communications technologies to drive economic growth.

In Pakistan and around the world, Nortel's business units are aligned into two main categories: Carrier Networks (incorporating Wireless Networks, Wireline Networks and Optical Networks) and Enterprise Networks.

Carrier Networks

Nortel Pakistan has developed strong relationships with the country's leading carriers and service providers:

• Pak Telecom Mobile Limited (PTML) - nationwide Ufone* GSM 900 network; major network expansions; GPRS solution to enable wireless Internet and wireless multimedia services.
• Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL*) - Long haul optical backbone to enhance bandwidth capacity for voice and data customers.
• dvcom - Next generation network (NGN) for delivery of high quality national and international long distance voice and data services.
• Warid Telecom - Voice over IP (Internet Protocol) NGN for delivery of national and international telephony and data services.
• Millicom International Cellular* - ATM backbone to support its wireless network.
• Telenor Pakistan* - Multiservice core backbone for wireless network.

Enterprise Networks

Nortel Pakistan's enterprise customers comprise companies of all descriptions and sizes, from small and medium-sized businesses to some of the country's largest corporations and multinationals, as well as government agencies.

Examples of Nortel's enterprise customer deployments include national data backbones for UBL, Pakistan's largest public sector bank, and for the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA). Nortel is also a leading provider of call centers in Pakistan, serving customers such as NADRA and, with a multiple-site networked call center facility, Pakistan International Airlines.

In Pakistan, Nortel's enterprise solutions are sold and supported by a network of distributors and resellers as part of the Nortel nPower Channel Partner Program - a strategic Asia Pacific initiative designed to arm regional channel partners with in-depth knowledge of Nortel's comprehensive voice and data products as well as the technology and support skills required to help them make enterprise customers successful. Pakistan nPower channel partners can be sourced on the Web at http://www.nortel.com/locator.