Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has announced that Pakistan has registered 98 million mobile phone users as of May 2010, with addition of 697,073 cellular users in reported month with growth rate of 0.72 percent.
Broadband users in Pakistan have reached 816,807 mark, as of April 2010. Internet Service Providers of Pakistan added a total of 44,370 broadband subscribers in April 2010 compared to addition of 55,932 broadband subscribers in March 2010.
As per Inter-Ministerial committee’s decision, PTA has banned all those URLs containing blasphemous content, however, search engines will be monitored for availability of any offensive content on them.
In a bid to be more open and transparent, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority is in the process of formulating regulations to clearly define the process of websites having objectionable content.
Nokia is apparently unable to combat the challenge given by touch-screen smart-phones – its performance has plunged over the years and in sales specifically. Still they are standing at 40 percent market share, but all those are low-end, in-expensive cell phones with little margins.
Rehman Malik has denied his ties with Rodcom and said he had founded the company when he was in exile in Britain, but left it before joining the present government.
'The News' claims that PTCL has projected over Rs 9 billion profits for the next financial year without a single penny of investment for facilitating its over 4.5 million subscribers, citing the budget document - that has all the details of PTCL’s plans during 2010-2011, including the revenues, expenses, lay-off details, taxation and much more..
Syed Imtiaz Ahmed has reached into the finals of Cisco’s ‘I-Prize’, a global innovation contest, for his mobile commerce idea dubbed as Pay 2.0. Cisco I-Prize is a global competition in which entrepreneurs submit proposals and collaborate to create the fundamental idea for Cisco’s next billion-dollar business.
Government of Pakistan has asked Etisalat to pay at least US 500 million dollars for buying 26 percent shares in PTCL in 2005 - to avoid a breach in the current year’s fiscal deficit target..
Government of Pakistan has projected $350 million exports of Information Technology (IT) for upcoming financial year 2010-11, which would require considerable investment and government support.
Pakistan ended with 97.3 million mobile phone subscribers in April 2010 up from 96.77 million subscribers in March 2010, according to recent stats released by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority.
A seminar to highlight various aspects of 3G mobile broadband services and 3G spectrum auctions in Pakistan, policy and regulation issues held in Islamabad. Network companies advocated the needs of 3G but cellular operators were not sure if 3G makes a good business case or not.
In a strange situation, Twitter and Facebook users, apparently in Pakistan only and those too on PTCL only, were able to log-in to random accounts with complete access and control over others’ Twitter and Facebook accounts.
We have reports, from sources inside Wateen Telecom that at least 80 managers, assistant managers from all departments were served termination letters, aimed at cutting cost and to revamp managerial hierarchy.
Mr. Salman Taseer has uploaded two videos on YouTube, apparently responding to the questions he had received on his email. In fact he had tweeted his email id on twitter and almost invited the public to ask him questions, his opinion and of course his help in certain matters
