Digital conectivity holds the key to economic growth in Pakistan, after the country went into lockdown last year, residents used smartphones, tablet computers and laptops to work, study and stay connected. As new digital behaviors formed, the critical role of communications service providers to support a functioning society with flawless digital communication capabilities in times of crisis became obvious. For service providers, being able to handle mobile traffic in a huge country like Pakistan is a challenge. Combined with the increase in smartphones and data use, service providers know they need to act to meet subscribers’ requirements. Pegasus and world democracy technical overview LTE, the 4G technology, today brings unprecedented mobile broadband performance to millions of users across the country. From an end-user perspective, not only data rates are of interest. The latency, that is, the time it takes to send a small packet through the network, is also relevant for the overall service experience. In fact, several services, for example, gaming, are more interested in low latency than high data rates. The latency is one of the key performance numbers visible to the end-user, often expressed as round-trip-time or “ping time”, for example when conducting a speed test. LTE … Continue reading Digital connectivity holds the key to economic growth in Pakistan