Adnan Farooqui

Wateen holds the distinction of setting up a country wide WiMax network in Pakistan.Currently this service is operation in 22 major cities of Pakistan.

In 2007, when Wateen launched its service to private consumers in Pakistan, the rates that the company was charging was well above any normal man's approach, and second, the data download limits were too less as compared to the speed, if one might have considered switching to Wateen for their ISP, the data limits would have surely held them back.

In recent times, we have seen great packages being offered by different ISPs across Pakistan and the hype that Wateen generated during the first year of its launch, seemed to fade away.

Until recently, a new advertisment aired on different channels, which depicted several guys boasting about their internet connections and what they paid for it and believe me, those rates have long been obsolete. One can say it is utterly preposterous for someone paying 5k for a 512k connection, many ISPs start offering their services from 1 mb.

On the advertisment, its told that Wateen now offers 1mb link for just Rs.699 with unlimited download. Here is where the deception is, The 1mb Rs.699 package has a 5 GB download limit, which i guess is the weekly download of a normal internet user.

The Virtually Unlimited Package which is offered for Rs. 1399 has a download limit of just 20 GB, it is evident that Wateen has fabricated its packages in such a way that many people may get decived and the company still would not face any harm.

What i would like to suggest is that Wateen should follow suit of the many ISPs that really provide their customers what they boast about in their advertisments rather than keeping so many things hidden.