Warid SCO sign accord interconnect
By Saad Saud

RAWALPINDI—Special Cornrnunications Organization (SCO) a pioneer telecom operator providing telephone. WLL and cellular mobile services in most difficult territories of Northern Areas (NAs) and Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJ&K) signed interconnect agreement with WARID telecom (Private) Limited at its headquarters on December 27. 2006 here on Wednesday morning.
Director General SCO Major General Shahid Magbool attended the ceremony Chief Executive Officer of WARID Hamid Farooq and Deputy Director General. Brigadier Riaz Hussain Shah signed the interconnect agreement. Senior officers from either side were present at the occasion. CEO WARID and Deputy DC SCO hoped for further expansion of the relations. CEO agreed to provide all possible technical assistance to SCO in expanding its modern GSM network with brand name SCOM. The agreement will significantly extend the existing connectivity between SCOM arid WARID. This will also pave way in improving reliability and quality of cellular telecom in remotest areas of the country as well as exchanging and transportation of mutual two ways local and nationwide dialing less international traffic between their respective networks
Points of interconnectivity will be Jhelum. Abbottabad and Rawalpindi I he public of AJ&K districts and areas of Mirpur, Kot!i. 3himbcr, M’uzatfarabad, Rawalakot, Bagh and Plandri will be nenefited whereas natives of the NAs districts Gi!git and Skardu and its peripheral areas will draw advantage as a result of this agreement meeting their awaited demand.
It is to ponder upon here that SCO has already signed interconnect agreements with U-Fone, Telenor, Mobil ink, Insta Phone and now agreement has been signed with WARID These all agreements provide variety of choice of mobile telecom facilities to the people of NAs and AJ&K vis-à-vis as well as boost sense of competition amongst cellular phone companies.