Freelancer.com, one of the largest freelancing / jobs marketplace in the world, is planning to start its operations in Pakistan, we have confirmed with sources. Pakistan holds one of the largest freelancing community in the world and the trend is on the rise. More and more individuals and professionals from Pakistan are turning towards self-employment and entrepreneurship by offering services to off-shore clients through free-lancing [...]

Telenor Pakistan is airing a new TVC for its unlimited call offer, that is available to all djuice customers. Before we go into further details, let’s have a look at the TVC that we are talking about: And here is the art work that Telenor is using to promote the offer. We have copied this creative from Facebook page of djuice and pasted below for [...]

As per directions from Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and advise of Prime Minister of Pakistan, Biometric Verification System for issuance of new SIMs was to be installed before February 28th, 2013, however it appears that deadline will not be met. Deployment of biometric verification system was meant to curb illegal and unregistered SIMs from the market. Directive from PTA, issued on December 7th, 2012, had explicitly [...]

YouTube is likely to remain blocked in Pakistan for more time as recent talks between Pakistan Telecommunication Authority and Google for blockade of anti-Islamic content in Pakistan have failed, told us sources familiar with the matter. Google, the parent company of YouTube, is reportedly not agreeing to block the access of anti-Islamic content in Pakistan and hence the government of Pakistan is going to maintain [...]

Mobilink has made Pakistan proud by winning GSMA Global Mobile Award at Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona. Mobilink’s SMS Based Literacy program won in the category of “Best Mobile Education or Learning Product or Service”, beating four other services – contesting in the same category. Rashid Khan, CEO of Mobilink, collected the award at an Award Distribution ceremony that was held yesterday in Barcelona. [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority is usually responsible for keeping an eye on quality of service that cellular and other telecom operators provide. Because regulator is almost dysfunctional (for last many months now) the falling service quality of cellular operators has reached to a point that it has started causing serious annoyance for mobile phone users in the country. This is true for almost every operator in [...]

Mr. Nasrul Karim Ghaznavi, Member (Finance) of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority is retiring today after serving eight years and completing his two service terms. Mr. Ghaznavi was appointed as Member Finance in 2005, after which he was granted second service term in 2009 on recommendations Dr. Yasin,then Chairman of PTA, as per PTA act. Mr. Ghaznavi’s stay at PTA remained smooth and seamless for first six [...]

Supreme Court of Pakistan has nullified Lahore High Court’s interim decision through which ICH or International Clearing House was suspended, reported Geo TV. Supreme court’s Lahore registry has now remanded back the ICH case to CPP (Competition Commission of Pakistan) by saying that Lahore High Court is not mandated to suspend ICH. SC said that ICH case should be heard in accordance with law and [...]

Warid Telecom today announced it has signed on Lahore-based Latitude Corporate Relationship Solutions for the provision of public relations services. Latitude is a boutique public relations and relationship management consultancy that offers a range of services in the fields of public and corporate relations and media management. The agency was selected following a competitive pitch process, during which the Latitude team demonstrated its ability to [...]

The federal government is taking all possible measures to make sure the induction of its favourites as members and chairman in the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), reports “The News”, while saying that it is evident from the series of advertisements published recently for hiring of the members of the authority. As we reported recently, the advertisements were published after the issuance of an SRO, which [...]

Pakistanis living abroad are paying high rates for calling their friends and family in Pakistan Since October 2012 as the call rates to Pakistan increased by 400% (on average) after ICH or International Clearing House was implemented. Later on, as you all may know, a petition was filed in Lahore High Court and eventually the ICH was suspended through court orders on October 30th, 2012. [...]

The consultants hired by the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) to auction the 3G mobile phone licenses have engaged lawyers to take legal action over the non-payment of their fees, said a joint statement issued by the consultants. Dr. Rob Nicholls from the Australian law firm Webb Henderson; Dennis Ward, the former spectrum auctioneer for the Canadian Spectrum Management Program; and Martin Sims from the spectrum [...]

It is not the first time that Mobilink has adopted humour in its TVCs (they have done it a few times before), however, the operator has come back with such kind of funny TVC after a long time with 3 pey 6 offer, which allows six minutes of calling at the against 3 minutes’ charges. With Funny ads —  usually the known attribute of Ufone [...]

Government of Pakistan has devised new regulations for the appointment of Chairman and members of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, we have confirmed with sources. An SRO was issued in this regard, according to which new regulations are in place now for the appointment of Chairman of PTA and the members of the body. Recent job advertisements of PTA members were published under the same new regulations. [...]

ProPakistani recently got this opportunity of meeting Mr. Shahid Ali from Lahore, who had won a Toyota Corolla car in Ufone’s first Shahcar offer back in 2012. Shahid, an ECG technician at Sheikh Zaid Hospital in Lahore, is father of three kids and lives a simple life. He – along with his family – lives in a rented house at Multan Road, Lahore. While speaking [...]