Wateen

Wateen Telecom was formed under the auspices of the Abu Dhabi Group which is one of the leading business conglomerates in the Middle East and one of the largest foreign investors in Pakistan. The Group has a diverse set of business interests that offer strong financial resources and extensive management expertise, resulting in the commercial success for numerous enterprises.

The Abu Dhabi Group’s major investments are in the following sectors:

• Oil and Gas Exploration
• Banking and Financial Services
• Automotive
• Hospitality Services
• Property Development
• Telecommunications & Technology

Other Abu Dhabi Group Companies in Pakistan

Bank Alfalah Ltd.

Bank Alfalah Limited was incorporated on June 21st, 1992 as a public limited company under the Companies Ordinance 1984. Its banking operations commenced from November 1st, 1997. The bank is engaged in commercial banking and related services as defined in the Banking Companies Ordinance, 1962. The Bank is currently operating through 392 branches in Pakistan. Bank Alfalah also has overseas presence in Bahrain, Bangladesh & Afghanistan, with the registered office at B.A. Building, I.I. Chundrigar Road, Karachi. During the past five years, the bank has emerged as one of the foremost financial institutions in the region endeavoring to meet the needs of tomorrow, today.

Warid Telecom

Warid Telecom is a joint venture between Abu Dhabi Group & SingTel Group. Abu Dhabi Group entered into a strategic alliance with Singapore Telecom in 2007. Subsequent to this, telecom giant SingTel acquired 30% percent equity stake in Warid Telecom, Pakistan, for US$ 758 million. This partnership is part of a strategy to support Warid Telecom’s continued
growth and to enhance its market position.

Al-Razi Healthcare

Al-Razi Healthcare (Pvt.) Ltd. is Abu Dhabi Group’s latest venture in Pakistan. The company intends to pioneer world-class private healthcare facilities in Pakistan and is focused on becoming the first leading ‘Preventive and Wellness Healthcare’ entity providing state-of-the-art medical technologies resulting in high quality and reliability with affordability.

Message from the Board of Directors

Mr. Zouhair A. Khaliq

Member Board of Directors, Wateen Telecom

We, as consumers of information also have the innate desire to communicate with others and to make all this possible, we rely on technology. Without this technology, true growth and measure in any economy would not be possible in today’s age of ever-evolving consumer needs.

The Abu Dhabi Group, with its staunch commitment to delivering the most innovative products across the globe and in Pakistan, it is also the single largest private foreign investor in the country. Through Warid and Wateen Telecom, the group is proud to be the first to offer the potential of quadruple-play (Internet, Telephony, TV & Mobile) services to the people of Pakistan and has a combined consumer base today of over 20 million individuals and households.

We have certainly made great progress in the past year, with a new and vibrant team, and a strategic vision to lead Pakistan into the telecoms revolution of the 21st Century. This vision encompasses Wateen’s ability to bring to the nation the real, tangible benefits of global interconnectivity by means of implementing nationwide telecommunications infrastructure development and leading the market in terms of converged communications products and services.

We at Wateen and the Abu Dhabi Group feel it is important to remain committed to our agenda of socio-economic and technological progress in Pakistan and to continue to develop our networks, services and to up-grade what we can do for our clients. All the while, we will continue to hold fast to our commitment to national development as a responsible corporate entity, and to play a significant role in Pakistan’s transformation into a world leader in telecommunications, development, research and trade.

Mr. Naeem Zamindar

CEO Wateen Telecom

At Wateen, we strongly believe in the power of technology as a means to connect and enable people’s lives and businesses. Over the last year, we have invested heavily in improving and expanding our network, right people, systems and processes that will ensure outstanding customer experience. We believe that our success will only happen if we enable you to succeed.

Wateen is the leading service provider that is servicing the telecommunications and banking industry of Pakistan. It has a reputation of providing reliable and responsive service on its state of the art network. Wateen is one of the largest fiber optic networks, the largest WiMAX network, the largest provider of satellite services, the 3rd largest long distance and international telephony services provider and is geared to become the largest distributor of Cable TV services in the country.

We believe that technology is going to change everything about how companies and societies operate. Wateen is the company that has the capabilities to realize this potential. Not only are we a leading broadband company, we are a top rated content creation, management and delivery company with six television channels under our management, and we are an end to end solution provider that can not only set up your network but also manage your complete IT infrastructure on the Wateen Cloud. Our “cloud” can enable anyone with the computing resources equivalent to Google and rent it by the hour. This will speed up everything – innovation, product cycles and competition, frog leaping Pakistan to prosperity.

At the heart of this progress lies a ‘Winning Team’, dedicated to enabling the digital lifestyle of the people of Pakistan. Our talented work-force is committed to rising to the challenge of connecting the unconnected and enabling their digital needs. To this end, Wateen is currently working with the USF on bridging the urban and rural divide in the country and has won 7 out of 9 optic fiber packages and 4 out of 6 broadband packages. These packages will help bring e-health, e-governance, e-commerce, e-education among others to the people in the under-served areas of the country.

I am also delighted to announce that Wateen has recently signed an agreement with the Higher Education Commission to provide broadband services to centers of higher learning in far-flung areas, bringing hope and enlightenment to a new generation of Pakistanis.

Our team could not have made this possible without the immense support of our sponsors, shareholders and the vision of our chairman H.H. Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahyan. The confidence he has shown in the government and the people of Pakistan has enabled Wateen in making history possible, today.