Multan Telecom Region (MTR) consists of the following districts:
1. Bahawalnagar 2. Bahawalpur 3. D.G. Khan 4. Khanewal 5. Leyyah 6. Lodhran 7. Multan 8. Muzaffargarh 9. Rahim yar khan 10. Rajan pur 11. Vehari
MTR, as a whole, has a total area of about 100,000 Sq Kms, a total population (rural + urban) of around 24 M (i.e. 14% of Total Population of Pakistan) and a population density of 240 Persons/SqKms. This project targets an urban population of 4.4M in 38 Cities/Towns of MTR (excluding the city of Multan).
Apart from providing broadband services, the project includes establishment of Educational Broadband Centres in 327 high-schools and colleges and 85 Community Broadband Centres in MTR.
Narrow band (dial-up) Internet services are available through multiple operators in all the districts, either through Narrowband Pops or Virtual Pops, via fixed line dialup as well as narrowband wireless technologies.
Region ID:
Broadband MTR-1/2009
Advertised On:
2nd March 2009
Bidders Registered:
1. Multinet Pakistan Pvt. Ltd.
2. Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL)
3. Wateen Telecom Pvt. Ltd.
4. Wi-Tribe Pakistan Ltd.
5. Worldcall Telecom Ltd
Opening of Qualification & Services Proposals:
Following three registered bidders submitted their Qualification & Services Proposals on 4th May 2009;
1. Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL)
2. Wateen Telecom Pvt. Ltd.
3. Worldcall Telecom Ltd.
Financial Bid Opening of Technically Qualified Bidders
Following bidders were declared Technically Qualified and their Financial Bids were opened on 18th May 2009. Subsidy requested by each bidder, based on 100% target, is as follows;
S/No
Districts
PTCL
Wateen
Worldcall
1
Bahawalnagar
284,200,000
468,441,000
313,687,000
2
Bahawalpur
494,600,000
501,448,000
728,782,000
3
D.G.Khan
155,800,000
197,666,000
147,140,500
4
Khanewal
262,500,000
441,429,500
288,431,000
5
Leyyah
101,200,000
142,712,000
92,755,000
6
Lodhran
160,000,000
224,754,500
139,519,000
7
Multan
53,500,000
106,152,000
46,854,000
8
Muzaffargarh
264,500,000
427,026,000
301,130,500
9
RahimYarKhan
386,200,000
373,868,000
493,241,500
10
Rajanpur
123,100,000
174,893,000
107,969,500
11
Vehari
247,075,000
395,871,500
246,197,000
Result
After the process of matching lowest subsidy and selection of targets (as per USF Broadband Bidding documents – RFA clauses 47, 48, 50 and 51), the contracts that have been signed with the two bidders are summarized below.
EBC=Educational Broadband Center CBC=Community Broadband Center
For details regarding selection of Technical Auditor click here
PTCL has claimed the first and second milestones for MTR.
WORLDCALL
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