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and the renegotiation of tower rentals due to the expiration of land-owner leases, with edotco negotiating in a way that would result in huge increases and premiums being demanded from wi-tribe. Here, edotco was trying to use the deliberate shutdown of wi-tribe base stations on edotco towers as a
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In 2020, due to a critical problem with the tower management business, edotco, the company ceased operations in Lahore. The situation arose because of a disagreement between the companies, which worsened after the departure of the highly regarded edotco group head, Suresh Sidhu; ostensibly, the
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The new 4.5G LTE-A network was installed at wi-tribe's Head Office in F-8 Islamabad, using equipment from Huawei, with whom wi-tribe signed a $ 15 million USD contract and a strategic partnership for upgrade of wi-tribes network to LTE-A covering a possibility of five cities, namely
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bargaining chip in a business dispute. As a kind of vengeance, wi-tribe stopped making payments. The now-fired CEO of edotco
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Rawalpindi, Karachi, Lahore, and
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