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 disagreement was over a service-level agreement 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.

The now-fired CEO of edotco Pakistan, Arif Hussain, responded by shutting down the towers in key cities, leaving customers without access to broadband.

[4] In November 2016, the management considered investing in 4G LTE home broadband to upgrade its services to meet customer expectations for speed and capacity.

This deployment represented the first such network in South Asia and the Middle East operating 4.5G LTE-A on the 3.5GHz spectrum (3500 MHz) band.

In late 2018 the HB Group acquired Qubee, a fellow broadband operator from US-based private equity fund New Silk Route.