While us Yankees have to wait on Sprint to complete their [Only Registered and Activated Users Can See Links. Click Here To Register...], the super-advanced nation of Pakistan has just launched the largest WiMAX network we’ve ever seen. Now, we’re not exactly sure what a huge network looks like, but we’ve been told this one looks fairly big.
Motorola and Wateen Telecom have teamed up to bring the “first 802.16e commercial WiMAX network” to 22 Pakistani cities, with more cities presumably slated to get the WiMAX goods sometime in the near future. Wateen already has registered interest from 20,000 Pakistanis, so it’s pretty safe to say that the initial launch will do just fine. And, with a 2Mbps WiMAX option (on the downstream, of course), we’re going to bet that Wateen will do just fine in the longer-run.
Motorola has deals with Sprint and Clearwire to bring WiMAX to the States, but we’re more than a few months away from a full-scale commercial launch. And, if Sprint wants to turn their business around with their XOHM network (which is pretty much their only option at this point), then they had better be planning to offer more than 2Mbps of downlink throughput. We’ll take 10Mbps of wireless data, please.

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