Zong plans an investment of US$500Mn (Pakistan)

www.WirelessFederation.com/news: CMPak (Zong), mobile operator of Pakistan, is reportedly planning to spend approximately USD500 million on increasing the number of base stations it has in operation to approximately 9,000 by the end of 2009.

According to the report, Zong plans to double the number of cell sites it has in certain areas of the country, and claims that the project is one of the largest undertaken in Pakistan. China Mobile, the parent company of Zong has already made an investment around USD1.66 billion in its Pakistan unit to date, USD600 billion of which was spent in the second half of the 2008-2009 fiscal year alone.