When Mobilink acquired Warid but Mobilink started rolling warid 4G roaming to Mobilink last week.
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Doesn't look like they're roaming on each other's network. In Blue Area, I managed to connect to Warid on my Mobilink SIM (but haven't been able to do so anywhere else).
This is how roaming appears:
I should have tested out the signal strength comparison and performed a few more tests, but alas, I didn't.
I really don't know how they've configured the networks. What I think is happening is that Mobilink's signals are different from Warid's, and the traceroute showsthat I'm not going through Warid's network at all. However, as I'm not in their network planning department (nor do I work for a telco or a telco vendor), I don't know how they're doing it.
But I was connected to 410 01 and 410 07, both being mutually exclusive. And that too, in Blue Area only.
As for speed tests: I'm touching 2MB/s in places (depending on the obstructions in place). In Gulrez, it varies between 5-9Mbps near my house, but it's higher in the market (my house is in an area with construction and shrubs, and Zong performed alright-ish here as well).
I'm not TOO bothered about the speed per se as far as 4g is concerned - I'm more concerned about the latencies. And thus far, latencies on Mobilink 4g are similar to Zong's (I.e. good). Speeds may improve eventually (Zong didn't start off with 40Mbps speeds from day one - we need to remember that they, too, ramped up their network in stages, so to expect the same thing from Mobilink (or ANY operator starting up) is a little unfair).
To expect Zong-like speeds from Warid is, however, fair. But Zong doesn't perform well in all areas, so it's not that Messiah from the heavens that does everything perfectly.
Also, for what it's worth, I did a trace route on Mobilink to 8.8.8.8. Here you go (notice the routing and how they don't seem to be using TW1):
--- Nov 28, 2016 6:33:47 PM
--- IP (dummy0) fe80::88f9:16ff:fe27:f1e3%dummy0
--- IP (rmnet_data0) 10.208.147.175
--- IP (rmnet_data0) fe80::8b63:b9fa:14d3:cfca%rmnet_data0
--- Connection: LTE
Trace to 8.8.8.8
1 -
2 - 10.227.5.134
22 38 34 (ms)
Avg: 31 ms Loss: 0/3 (0 %)
3 - 10.232.40.161
24 35 40 (ms)
Avg: 33 ms Loss: 0/3 (0 %)
4 - 10.232.40.13
Loss: 3/3 (100 %)
5 - 10.232.40.6
19 36 33 (ms)
Avg: 29 ms Loss: 0/3 (0 %)
6 - 119.160.80.185
host-185-net-80-160-119.mobilinkinfinity.net.pk
17 34 33 (ms)
Avg: 28 ms Loss: 0/3 (0 %)
7 - 119.30.105.237
static-host119-30-105-237.link.net.pk
25 33 29 (ms)
Avg: 29 ms Loss: 0/3 (0 %)
8 - 119.30.105.201
static-host119-30-105-201.link.net.pk
31 32 28 (ms)
Avg: 30 ms Loss: 0/3 (0 %)
9 - 119.30.105.194
static-host119-30-105-194.link.net.pk
24 25 34 (ms)
Avg: 27 ms Loss: 0/3 (0 %)
10 - 221.120.253.249
29 42 31 (ms)
Avg: 34 ms Loss: 0/3 (0 %)
11 - 221.120.254.14
60 57 58 (ms)
Avg: 58 ms Loss: 0/3 (0 %)
12 - 202.125.128.135
59 60 61 (ms)
Avg: 60 ms Loss: 0/3 (0 %)
13 - 74.125.49.224
178 183 185 (ms)
Avg: 182 ms Loss: 0/3 (0 %)
14 - 216.239.59.22
177 184 176 (ms)
Avg: 179 ms Loss: 0/3 (0 %)
15 - 216.239.41.149
185 194 194 (ms)
Avg: 191 ms Loss: 0/3 (0 %)
16 - 66.249.95.39
Loss: 3/3 (100 %)
17 - 74.125.37.103
Loss: 3/3 (100 %)
18 - 209.85.248.71
Loss: 3/3 (100 %)
19 -
20 - 8.8.8.8
google-public-dns-a.google.com
186 191 192 (ms)
Avg: 189 ms Loss: 0/3 (0 %)
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