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INTRODUCTION OF SMART
METERS IN PAKISTAN AND ROLE
OF MOBILIK

CONTENTS

Executive summary................................................................................................................. 4
1 INTRODUCTION.................................................................................................................... 5
2. Chart................................................................................................................................... 5

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The report relates to the research conducted in the current situation of utility industry
in Pakistan and how Mobilink can take advantage and diversify its role. This report provides
overview on increasing awareness in government sector to introduce smart meters in
Pakistan
Revenue of utility companies in Pakistan is above 10 billion USD. Mobilink can provide
it already installed infrastructure (Networks, CRM, and Billing) to utilities companies. It will
help in soaring Mobilink profits and also will open ne streams of businesses. Further to that it
will also strengthen Mobilink relations not only with government sector but also with
companies performing in utilities sector. Various telecom operators in the Europe and North
America have already taken this advantage of this new business stream. They are already
providing such services to utilities companies, Verizon , O2, Telefonica to name a few.
For broadband and telecommunications service providers, the smart grid represents
a compelling opportunity to differentiate their service packages and create new revenue
streams with home automation and energy management services. With the smart grid,
broadband providers can further extend their reach inside the home with innovative,
practical applications that improve everyday life by enabling homeowners to monitor and
control their home appliances. This whitepaper educates telecommunications and
broadband service providers on the concepts and latest developments in the smart grid,
with particular focus on the Home Area Network (HAN), and the technologies used to
communicate among the utility, smart meter, smart appliances, and homeowner. This is a
critical time to keep an eye on developments in the smart grid, and service providers should
be well prepared to take advantage of smart grid applications in the near future

Revenue in Billions

3.9; 41%
5.55; 59%

Gas Utility

Electricity

For broadband and

telecommunications service providers, the smart grid represents a compelling opportunity to
differentiate their service packages and create new revenue streams with home automation
and energy management services. With the smart grid, broadband providers can further

extend their reach inside the home with innovative, practical applications that improve
everyday life by enabling homeowners to monitor and control their home appliances. This
whitepaper educates telecommunications and broadband service providers on the concepts
and latest developments in the smart grid, with particular focus on the Home Area Network
(HAN), and the technologies used to communicate among the utility, smart meter, smart
appliances, and homeowner. This is a critical time to keep an eye on developments in the
smart grid, and service providers should be well prepared to take advantage of smart grid
applications in the near future

1 INTRODUCTION
REVENUES OF BIG FIVE
2. CHART

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ADVATAGES OF CHOOSING FOR OPERATOR OR WHAT MOBILINK CAN PROVIDE

Cellular WAN solutions offer a number of advantages for Smart Metering deployments. First,
when a utility chooses cellular communications, they can rely on the mobile operator to
provide the network instea d of having to bear the cost of deploying, operating, and
maintaining the entire communications infrastructure themselves. By outsourcing the
communications network to a mobile operator, energy suppliers can radically reduce both
installation costs and implementation times for their Smart Metering projects. In addition,
mobile operators increasingly view machine - to - machine (M2M) communications as an
important and growing subscriber market and are implementing new service offerings and
billing approaches to compete for this business. As a result, data rates for WAN - based
Smart Metering communications are now extremely competitive. Todays cellular coverage
also extends literally everywhere, covering approximately 99 percent of the addressable
population for Smart Metering infrastructures. Indeed, most areas are covered by multiple
cellular networks, allowing utilities to deploy Smart Meters using the best cellular network
available depending on location, and maintain backup network capabilities. Finally, cellular
WAN is now a proven technology that is more than capable of supporting Smart Metering
infrastructures. Cellular technology has existed for more than 20 years, and the security and
flexibility of wireless communications is no longer debated. In fact, 1 billion machines
already use cellular networks today, and data communication (typically IP - based) now
makes up 20 percent of all cellular communications worldwide.

INFRASTRUCTURE

In developing a mobile network, operators have core competences that are essential to their
business that are easily transferred into supporting utilities services: Network security
High availability and resilience in disaster situations
User Authentication
Billing, customer care and CRM
Subscription and Device management
These are essential aspects of managing customers and their devices on