Weekly News Updates from Pakistan Telecom Industry

Send Free SMS     Mobile Rates      Live TV Channels      Buy - Sell MTN May Buy Orascom MTN Group, Africa’s largest mobile-phone operator, is preparing to buy Orascom’s operations, at least in Egypt, Algeria, Zimbabwe and Tunisia, reported Financial Times and Business Week.   Click here to know complete details USF Stretches Broadband to another 21 Cities in Southern Punjab Thanks to Universal Service Fund, 21 cities in southern Punjab are now broadband equipped with 25,100 customers already on board since the roll-out started three months ago. Continue reading to know complete details PTCL Acquires Maxcom Maxcom has been acquired by PTCL. Maxcom is known for its customer support and better quality of service. It has more than 10,000 DSL subscribers in Karachi and Hyderabad. Continue Reading The Story Mustafa Paracha Resigns from Mobilink to Head wi-tribe As expected, Mustafa Paracha has resigned from his position at Mobilink as Vice-President, Broadband & Carrier Division. Reportedly, he would be heading wi-tribe, however Moblink didn’t comment over his future commitments. Continue Reading The Story IST Students Successfully Tested Pakistan’s 1st Circular Planform Airplane Students at Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics of Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad, successfully tested Pakistan’s first circular Unmanned Aerial Vehicle or UAV. Continue Reading The Story Sneak Peak Ufone Introduces Data Internet Packages Get Free Cinema Tickets with Mobilink PTCL Vfone Numbers, Operating Without Registrations Effective Steps Needed to Promote M-Commerce       » PTA Suspends Redtone's License » Senate Body Dismayed by PTA Failure to Block Unregistered SIMs » SEA-ME-WE-4 Outage to Affect Internet and Telcom Traffic » TeleCON-2010 Concludes in Lahore » LTE is the Future Technology for Broadband » ZONG Gives UET Students 4-Year Scholarship » MoMo Launches its Pakistan Chapter » HEC to Get 10 Gig Internet from PTCL » Teaching Thousands Through YouTube: Working Example     ProPakistani | About Us | Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Advertise

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Send Free SMS     Mobile Rates      Live TV Channels      Buy - Sell $100m Investment Withdrawn – Thanks to High MVNO Fee At least one out of three companies, which had applied to invest in industry, has withdrawn its decision to invest $ 100 million, due to increase in the license fee by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA).   Click here to know complete details PayPal in Pakistan – Looks Possible, but it May Take Time! Reportedly, an advance team from PayPal has visited Pakistan to study business viability and architecture in the country. With PayPal’s announcement to hike its strength in Asia, one must consider that Pakistan won’t be missed this time. Continue reading to know complete details Cellular Subscribers Surpasses 96m Mark, Again Cellular subscribers in the country reached 96.23 million in February 2010, with teledensity hitting 58.70 percent. All cellular companies showed positive growth in February 2010 with overall industry growth of 0.86 percent compared to negative growth of 2.22 percent in January 2010. Mobilink topped the subscriber base with 31.30 million. Continue Reading The Story Wateen and IPO: Insight Wateen’s IPO is showing good signs as of now. Company’s 19.8 million shares were sold with-in first two days, while company CEO said that strategic investors, banks and different investment houses have already under written the 110 million shares, therefore, there would be no question of under subscription of the company’s issue. Continue Reading The Story PTA Plans 3 More 668 Services in Phases After successful completion of Phase 1 of 668 service, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority is further planning another 3 phases for the purpose of completely eliminating un-registered SIMs from the country. Continue Reading The Story Sneak Peak Ufone Super Call Offer is Ending April 30th Mobile Internet at Rs. 5 per Day: Zong Mobi2Tweet Challenges Chopaal, Launches Group SMS Get Duplicate bill of PTCL Landline on Internet [Privacy Nightmare #Fail]       » Mustafa Paracha in Talks to join wi-tribe » USF to Subsidize Multipurpose Rural Community Centers » LinkDotNet Wraps Up DSL Operations in Smaller Cities » SBP Hosts Branchless Banking Conference » Sania Mirza Bhi Apni Hai » CPLC Lahore Has a Website Now – Asks 17 Digit IMEI Instead of 15 » PTA Pushes Celcos for Implementation of SPAM Protection Regulation » Celcos Have Never Used R&D Fund for Research Projects » Pakistan to Become Mobile Monday’s 100th Chapter     ProPakistani | About Us | Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Advertise

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Send Free SMS     Mobile Rates      Live TV Channels      Buy - Sell InstaPhone Delaying Salaries for 20 Months, Valuing Rs. 45 Million InstaPhone employees are waiting for their salaries, provident funds, and other benefits for almost twenty months now. CEO InstaPhone says that company is not operating any further and there are no funds to clear liabilities.   Click here to know complete details Court Puts Ministry and RnD Fund Officials on Notice The Lahore High Court has issued notices to secretary ministry of information and technology and the head of National ICT Research and Development Fund to submit their comments in a petition alleging initiation of different IT projects in violation of rules and regulations. Continue reading to know complete details 2 Mobile Companies Want an End to SMS Packages Two leading Mobile operators are favoring to impose 10 paisa charges on all text messages sent to other networks, while another two operators opposed the idea – fifth operator remained somewhat neutral, in a recent high level industry meeting. Continue Reading The Story Idea of SMS Based Electoral System (A Proposal) The idea is to combine the usage of Mobile Phone with NADRA and to enable the countrymen to vote through SMS. It may seem not a very serious or very quickly implementable option but it could be indeed a seriously time saving, secure, fast, corruption-less and most cost cutting national campaigning idea ever. Continue Reading The Story Nokia Announces 5 New Low End Models Expanding the portfolio of its Entry Solutions in Pakistan, Nokia Pakistan has announced the latest additions to its most affordable device range at their launch event: Nokia 2690, Nokia 2220, Nokia 1616, Nokia 1800 and Nokia 1280. Continue Reading The Story Sneak Peak Pakistan to celebrate ‘Sab Keh Do’ Day On-net Call of Any Duration: Rs. 2.99 – Ufone Super Call Indigo Talk Fiesta Can Win you World Cup Tour Twitter Usage May Hike with Official Blackberry App       » PTCL Gets Notice for Revising Tariff without Permission » MCB Mobile Money Service Nominated Best in World » Telenor Urges Lower Telecom Taxes » Walton Board is Stealing Passwords, Hosting a Yahoo Phishing Page » Warid Signs MoU with PIA » Police May Get GSM Caller Location Identification System » PTCL Smart TV Vs Local Cable Operators » 668 Has Served 16 Million SIM Verification Requests » Buying iPad in Pakistan     ProPakistani | About Us | Contact Us | Privacy Policy | Advertise

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