A new revelation has been made by Mr. Rehman Malik, the Minister Interior, also notorious for issuing useless and senseless statements, when he was found saying that PTA would be directed to dispatch every new SIM card to the subscriber’s home/office addresses from May 1st.
Going to next level, Telenor Pakistan is sending text messages to its customers to win as much as half kilogram of gold for FREE in its “Sonay ki Jeet” contest, which could potentially mislead customers by not communicating the actual terms.
Western Media has gone crazy with heroic news stories portraying superlative character of security companies, such as Cisco, Mcafee, Websense, Verizon and Sandvine – who have decided not to submit proposals for upcoming centralized URL filtering system of Pakistan.
Omar Manzur, the official spokesperson of Mobilink for last 8 years, has moved on to take up charge of a newly formed division at HR department in Mobilink, we have confirmed with sources and company itself.
Chief Minister Punjab Mian Mohammad Shahbaz Sharif has claimed of implementing better government through E-governance in the province, which has benefited the masses.
Number of mobile phone subscribers reached 114.61 million by the end of January 2011, taking mobile phone teledensity to 66.5 percent. According to latest figures released by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), Mobilink led the market with 34.70 million subscribers followed by Telenor with 28.47 million customers.
Total number of branchless banking transactions processed during the quarter remained 20.6 million, valuing Rs. 79.4 billion. Bills payment & top-up remained the dominating activity with 53% share in total numbers, followed by fund transfer and deposits with share of 39% and 8% respectively.
According to latest stats issued by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, number of broadband subscribers in Pakistan reached 1.79 million till December 2011, adding some 65,000 subscribers in the month of December 2011.
Mobilink has posted a YoY revenue growth of 4 percent in fourth quarter 2011 to reach Rs. 25 billion, up from Rs. 23.9 billion during same period last year. Mobilink posted revenues of Rs. 135.6 billion during the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011, that is 5 percent up from 129.2 billion in year 2010..
Over 4.5 million citizens have so far verified their records of vote through SMS service which was launched from March 1 to facilitate citizens to verify their vote registration and particulars in the voters lists.
It is now officially recognized that 3G auction isn’t possible before May 2012 that too if government relaxes Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) rules to treat this auction as a special case, i.e. to get Rs. 75 billion revenue as soon as possible.
Recently there has been a lot of talk about the apparent GREAT FIREWALL OF PAKISTAN. A specific group of people have been making noise over this issue and spreading a propaganda which is based on half truths and public misinformation.
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) inaugurated its fastest supercomputing facility. The supercomputer installed is the fastest GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) based parallel computing system operating in any organization in Pakistan till date.
Pakistan’s IT industry has been showing a tremendous performance in terms of fastest business expansion, revenues growth and employment generation, evident as number of companies offering software services and products, computer networking and development solutions are leading the #Pakistan100 business index.
Finally, the anticipation is over, Apple recently unveiled its latest iPad version - the new Apple iPad. Plain and simple, the new iPad. Apple decided to do away with the numbers while everybody is gearing towards an iPad 3.
