LinkdotNet: New Player in Pakistani Broadband Market
On Sunday, leading newspapers of Pakistan displayed full-page advertisement of LinkdotNet, another broadband service provider in town.
Orascom, with Mobilink under its belt, acquired two Pakistani ISPs WOL and Dancom and merged them to launch LinkdotNet in Pakistan.
Operating from Lahore, LinkdotNet Pakistan offers broadband Internet through DSL and WiMAX technologies for the Home and Corporate users along with the traditional Dialup Internet.
LinkdotNet is CMMI Level 3 accredited and ISO 9001:2000 certified. It has a technology solutions wing, Linkdev, that is Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in Business Process and Integration, Custom Development Solutions, Information Worker Solutions, Microsoft Business Solutions and Advanced Infrastructure Solutions.
While Orascom has penetrated Pakistani market through Mobilink, providing broadband services is another ball game. We have already seen Wateen, Warid’s sibling, fumbling with early-bird Wimax customers.
Also, LinkdotNet has selected an inappropriate launch date. Internet connectivity is at its low in Pakistan due to the under-sea cable snap. LinkdotNet, a FLAG provider, is badly effected in Egypt, its home-base, where people are already not too fond of it (here and here).
In any case, LinkdotNet is going to bring competition which will be good for us, the consumers.
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This is Usman Khawaja from Sialkot-Pakistan and I am using broadband DSL connection – 1Mbps of Link Dot Net. I had a very poor experience of Link Dot Net’s DSL connection. Currently they are suffering by “recurrent internet disconnection and speed issues”. Now one month has passed but the issues still persist. So I will recommend everyone not to buy pain of using LinkDotNet.
Anyways, I have written a blog post where I have shared my thoughts about poor services by Link Dot Net. You can read this blog at http://linkdotnet.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/link-dot-net-linknet-disconnection-problems/
Thanks for your attention.