A strong telecommunications infrastructure is critical in running businesses which create a significant contribution toward an enabling economy. If the enablement isn't happening through the power grid, companies will be forced to look at other avenues. Over the long term, companies will be able to better understand the workings of solar power and use it as an effective means of generating environmentally-friendly power. Companies have also started to look at technologies that would play a vital role to cut costs and at the same time, aid to environment.

Voice and video are perhaps the two best examples that show the seriousness of companies towards green. The use of voice and video would mean lesser travel, thus lesser usage of fossil fuels.

“Operators in Pakistan are also looking into voice services to leverage new customer base where they do not have a presence. It is likely to benefit the future sales directly arising from the newly stimulated demand,” says Irfan Khan.

Though things are at a nascent stage in Pakistan , the new era of green technologies has come and a lot of deployment will be seen soon. The major problem with the entire Indian sub-continent continues to be polices and red tapes. Any new policy would go under such a long procedure that it would end its vigor by the time it gets executed. In Bangladesh the condition is such that the policies are yet to be even framed by regulators. Things are still better in Pakistan where mobile operators are working to introduce mobile commerce products and services, which will indirectly help achieve green telecom objectives. Various operators have signed tower sharing agreements on their own. The Government of Pakistan is in the process of formulating a policy with respect to making tower sharing mandatory for operators. And as the country is going through enormous energy crisis green becomes a must.

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