Best Cellular Company for Customer Support – Survey Concluded

By Aamir Attaa · Wednesday, Dec 31, 2008 11 Comments

Best Cellular Company for Customer Support - Survey Concluded

We started a survey, asking our readers about which cellular company has the best customer care service, including Helpline, Customer Support Center and complaint resolution via Email. Survey was started on December 2nd, 2008. A reader could select only one company, while our system allowed a reader to participate in polls only once (with unique IP...

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Irtiza Haider is World's Youngest Cisco Certified Network Associate

By Aamir Attaa · Wednesday, Dec 31, 2008 0 Comments

Faisalabad based 12-year Irtiza Haider has become world’s youngest Cisco Certified Network Associate. He is a 8th class student. The CCNA, is a certification that emphasizes on the technology and skills needed to work with networks of 100 nodes or fewer, covering both IP and non-IP networks including IPX and AppleTalk. Moreover, you need to have...

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Handset Industry | 2008 Wrap-up, Potential and Challenges for 2009

By Aamir Attaa · Wednesday, Dec 31, 2008 0 Comments

Handset Industry | 2008 Wrap-up, Potential and Challenges for 2009

As the year 2008 is about to conclude, we can see not that good atmosphere for Mobile Phone manufacturers. Consequently, one can easily anticipate sales going down in year 2009 as customers will be looking for more value than of high priced gadgets. We also saw many markets, globally, maturing into saturated industries, mobile handsets may see a significant...

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Cellular Subscribers Drop to 90.41 Million in November 2008

By Aamir Attaa · Wednesday, Dec 31, 2008 0 Comments

Cellular Subscribers Drop to 90.41 Million in November 2008

Pakistan ended November 2008 with 90.41 million mobile phone users decreasing by 0.1 percent compared with 90.51 million in October 2008, according to figures from Pakistan Telecom Authority. Mobilink remains the market leader with 30.06 million customers, despite losing 827,000 customers during November, followed by Ufone with 19.1 million. Telenor...

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PTA Concludes QoS Survey for Dial-up ISPs

By Aamir Attaa · Tuesday, Dec 30, 2008 0 Comments

PTA Concludes QoS Survey for Dial-up ISPs

Pakistan Telecom Authority has released results for Quality of Service (QoS) Survey for Dial-up Internet Service Providers of Pakistan. As per PTA, this Quality of Service (QoS) Survey of ISPs was conducted in seventeen (17) major and small cities throughout the country in October –November 2008. Parameters checked were the availability of service,...

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Internet Pornography – What Parents, Regulator and ISPs Should do?

By Aamir Attaa · Tuesday, Dec 30, 2008 0 Comments

Internet Pornography - What Parents, Regulator and ISPs Should do?

Guest Post By Nazakat Hussain Internet equipped computers are now widely used in schools, and 100′s of millions of children and teenagers around the world use computers for educational and leisure purposes. Unfortunately there are many aspects of the use of home computers and their associated use can be of concern to parents. As our families become...

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Global and Local Economy Got Whacked in 2008

By Aamir Attaa · Tuesday, Dec 30, 2008 0 Comments

Global and Local Economy Got Whacked in 2008

2008 turned out to be the most devastating year for world’s economy and as per some analysts, 2008 remained as the worst year in terms of economy after “Great Depression” of 1931. Current year’s economic downfall was first sensed in United States when unemployment rate started growing enormously. In one year, unemployment rate broke previous...

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Some Facts about Pakistan Telecom Industry

By Aamir Attaa · Monday, Dec 29, 2008 0 Comments

Some Facts about Pakistan Telecom Industry

PTA successfully liberalized the telecom sector of Pakistan in an efficient, transparent and fastest deregulation of telecom in the region The Government of Pakistan gave the status of Industry to Pakistan Telecommunication Sector With de-regulation of telecom sector, PTA awarded 14 Long Distance and International licenses, 38 fixed local loop licenses...

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PTA Cautions Telenor and Mobilink for Increasing Helpline Charges without Notifying Customers

By Aamir Attaa · Monday, Dec 29, 2008 5 Comments

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has Cautioned Telenor Pakistan and Mobilink for increasing their helpline call charges without notifying their customers. Sources confirmed us that PTA has further advised both the companies to play prominent message on IVR to announce the increment of charges for helpline calls, as most of users are not informed...

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SMS Back in Occupied Kashmir After 5 Months Ban

By Aamir Attaa · Monday, Dec 29, 2008 0 Comments

In occupied Kashmir, the cellular company, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has announced restoration of short messaging services (SMS) in Kashmir valley from Saturday (December 27), after five months following lifting of the restrictions imposed by the occupation authorities in August this year. The ban had initially been lifted by the high court, but...

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Commentary for Readers – Response Requested!

By Aamir Attaa · Monday, Dec 29, 2008 0 Comments

We are almost finished with year 2008; we all would be evaluating ourselves with our achievements in this year – and would be planning for upcoming year with higher goals than of previous year. Similarly, we at ProPakistani.com learned a lot during 2008, from industry, media, fellow bloggers and of course from our readers (through their comments)....

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A Leading Pakistani Bank's Website Got Compromised

By Muhammad Ali Raza · Friday, Dec 26, 2008 7 Comments

A Leading Pakistani Bank's Website Got Compromised

Editor’s Note: We are deliberately not disclosing bank’s name to secure it from competitive disadvantage, also this hack incident is not related in any case with previous hacking posts published on ProPakistani.com A leading bank of Pakistan got hacked with complete compromise over its services and server, earlier this month. This compromise,...

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15 Most Popular Articles on ProPakistani – Year 2008

By Zeeshan Shafquat · Friday, Dec 26, 2008 0 Comments

It was just 7 months back when ProPakistani.Com was launched to highlight the achievements of Telecom Sector and to give reliable and authentic news to the people that are interested in this day by day flourishing industry in Pakistan. Every article, published on the ProPakistani.com, got tremendous response from the readers. At the end of 2008, our...

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Mobilink Brings BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 Smartphone

By Aamir Attaa · Thursday, Dec 25, 2008 0 Comments

Mobilink Brings BlackBerry Pearl Flip 8220 Smartphone

Mobilink has introduced first BlackBerry® flip smartphone that comes with style and functionality bundled in an elegant package. BlackBerry® Pearl™ 8220, the new handset that has all the features that you expect from a BlackBerry smartphone bundled into a compact new device. The Pearl 8220 is also the first BlackBerry that comes equipped with two...

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Dying Cellular Services and Promotions

By Reality Bites · Thursday, Dec 25, 2008 0 Comments

It is not new to everyone that Pakistani cellular market is saturated and is waiting for some innovative offers for customers to bring major prompt. However, as per my analytical belief Telco’s are only investing to make things happen from just voice and SMS traffic and to remain in the customers’ mind but nothing else. It is learned that more than...

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