WiMax 802.16e successful launch and exponential growth in northern Iraq

1. Rapid WiMAX network roll out
helps boost Iraqi broadband
customer numbers ten-fold in
just three months
The fast and cost-effective roll out of a turnkey WiMAX network from
Nokia Siemens Networks is delivering
much-needed broadband to areas in northern Iraq that would not be
economically viable using other technologies
With no efficient 3G mobile network that could help it to meet profitably the
infrastructure in place, Sulaymaniyah coverage commitments imposed by its “The most important criteria for
in Northern Iraq was considered spectrum license. So Brusknet turned us, over and above a cost efficient
economically unviable for the to Hayat Communications to provide a deployment, were the flexibility
deployment of broadband using GSM, cost-effective and high quality solution. and speed that Nokia Siemens
DSL or fiber-optic technologies. It also needed a fast deployment to Networks and its partner Hayat
Grabbing the opportunity, local give it a competitive first-to-market Communications achieved for
communications service provider advantage over other local service BruskNet.”
(CSP) BruskNet and Hayat providers.
Communications have deployed a
Naeem Mirza,
modern network of 20 WiMAX base Technology plus expert support
Deputy General Manager,
station sites to provide a high quality
After evaluating the offers from several BruskNet
broadband experience for its
possible suppliers, Hayat
customers.
Communications chose Nokia
Siemens Networks WiMAX as the
Having obtained frequency from the
most cost-effective and highest quality
Iraq government in 2009, BruskNet
solution. Comprehensive network
wanted to exploit quickly the business
planning support was crucial to the
opportunity of providing broadband
deal because it enabled the rollout to
Internet access in northern Iraq. The
proceed quickly in spite of the difficult
CSP needed a network deployment
terrain around Sulaymaniyah. Not only

2. was the deployment cost-effective, but launch within three months,” Naeem The successful deployment was
ongoing network cost will be minimal Mirza, Deputy General Manager, completed and running by the end of
because of the system’s high reliability. BruskNet. “The key to the success of 2010. Within three months, BruskNet
this project was the close partnership was experiencing a growth of ten times
The ability to deploy a team locally to between Nokia Siemens Networks and the number of customers coming onto
manage the rollout was another key Hayat Communications and the time the network. The initial project has now
factor, as was the promised roll out and effort they took to understand fully been followed by an order for an
schedule of less than six months. the local conditions and project extension to provide mobile Internet
requirements and put resources on the access for 20% more customers.
Ten-fold growth ground. Other vendors simply did not
show this level of commitment.”
“Hayat Communications and Nokia
Siemens Networks more than lived up
to the task, preparing us for a soft
Challenges Solutions Benefits
• Provide Internet access to • Complete turnkey WiMAX • Six-month deployment
customers in an area where network solution enabled Brusknet to be first in
conventional broadband • Planning and support services the region with mobile
coverage is not economically • Local skilled support to ensure broadband services
viable high quality rollout • Within three months of the
• Achieve a smooth, fast rollout network’s launch, customer
in spite of challenging terrain subscriptions had risen ten-
and limited infrastructure fold
• • Cost-effective Internet access
extends reach and helps win
market share
• Points the way to future
expansion in equally
challenging regions
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