The news is that Mobilink is working on a formula to bring Mobilink Infinity and Link Dot Net under one banner. Inside sources at Link Dot Net confirmed us that arrangements are under way to merge Mobilink Infinity and Link Dot Net, as one combined internet unit of Mobilink. This development is specifically important when it would be seen in a scenario, where internet unit [...]

It is quite often in Pakistan that companies withdraw services or increase tariffs without notifying customers. Here this has happened again, PTCL’s Phone n Net services, which were previously free, is now charged at Rs. 2 per 20 minutes pulse from May 16th, 2008, meaning that internet will be of Rs. 6 per hour. Official link to new rates is here And all this happened [...]

Link Dot Net introduced a referral system through which you can get Rs. 500 discount by referring each customer – while your referral will get same discount (of Rs. 500) in his/her first bill. Meaning that, if you bring Link Dot Net a customer, can be your friend/ family friend, LDN will offer you Rs. 500 discount in your next bill, while your friend will [...]

To commemorate World Telecom and Information Society Day (WTIS) 2009, Ministry of Information Technology held an event in Islamabad which was attended by representatives of public sector, industry and academia. WTIS theme for this year is ‘Protecting children in cyberspace’. On this World Telecom day 2009, Universal Service Fund also signed contracts for two more projects for providing ‘Optic Fiber Connectivity to un-served Tehsils in [...]

Internet Service Providers will have the right to acquire lease IP bandwidth from any operator (other than PTCL) and PTCL will offer the proposed discounts on IP bandwidth to ISPs, starting from April 1st, 2009, this was concluded in a meeting arranged by PTCL, ISPAK and chaired by Chairman PTA, told us a source from the authority. Earlier, ISPak had approached PTA for resolution for various [...]

Wi- Tribe Pakistan Limited acquires IBM System X3550 Servers and IBM System X3650 Servers from Inbox Business Technologies. By setting up the IBM servers at their premises, Wi-Tribe aims at launching wireless broadband (WIMAX) Operations and will be able to monitor the data and voice traffic, improved storage area, and will avoid unnecessary noise in the network channels. Reported earlier that Wi-tribe has recently soft [...]

Chairman of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), Dr. Mohammed Yaseen has said that broadband services have potential to uplift the socio-economic condition of the country and these can be utilized to enhance the usage of information in different spheres of life. He told  this while attending the inauguration ceremony of Connect Conference 2009, held in concurrence with the 4th Information and Communications Technology Exhibition & Conference at [...]

Previously discussed Augere, a Netherland firm whose focus is on broadband delivery in emerging markets has apparently sorted its dispute with Wi-Tribe and is going for WiMAX deployment in Pakistan. Zebno.com spotted Augere’s job advertisements this weekend in ‘The News’, asking for workforce in various departments. By the way, Mr. Mubashir Naqvi is already in place as CEO of Augere in Pakistan. The future of [...]

First of its kind practice in Pakistan, Wateen has introduced Live Chat Button on its website. I didn’t call it service, as its only a Button as of now (apparently Live Chat service isn’t working at this point of time – but i believe webmaster would be working on it) As mentioned before, Live Chat is something new for Pakistani ISPs or telcos. However, it [...]

ISLAMABAD: Parvez Iftikhar, CEO-Universal Service Fund signing contracts of Broadband Project in Un-served Urban Areas of Faisalabad Telecom Region with Sikandar Naqi, SEVP-PTCL and Furqan Qureshi, GM-Wateen Telecom. Hifz-ur-Rehman, Secretary IT and Dr. Muhammad Yaseen, Chairman-PTA are also standing. Broadband is considered to be the electronic highway of today. Although, Pakistan has gone ahead in providing voice telephony services crossing 60% tele-density, but broadband proliferation [...]

Pakistan’s telecom industry continues to take positive steps towards the development of telecom infrastructure in the country. The massive boom for the mobile phone segment of telecom industry has provided the momentum for expansion and development in other segments of telecom as well, especially in the rural areas of Pakistan. The Universal Service Fund (USF) from Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) is providing the impetus for [...]

First discussed at TGP, and then confirmed by ApnaTime, the news is that Augere has got its new CEO, Mr. Mubashir Naqvi while his predecessor Mr. Nadeem Safdar left the post two weeks ago. Mudassar Jehangir, Editor-in-Chief, at ApnaTime and More Magazine, further notes that Mubashir Naqvi has been serving Augere as a consultant, thus the company is not new for him. Mr. Naqvi has [...]

DragonWave Inc. , a global supplier of high-capacity, wireless native Ethernet backhaul solutions for mobile and access networks, today announced that wi-tribe Pakistan Limited, a WiMAX service provider, is deploying its Internet Protocol (IP) backhaul network using DragonWave’s Horizon Compact radio system. Introduced in 2007, the Horizon Compact series has established a formidable track record for delivering carrier-class performance in mobile 4G networks. “DragonWave’s microwave [...]

After PTCL doubled Broadband speed for its customers, Link Dot Net immediately sent an email to all of its users and claimed that Link Dot Net will double its Broadband Speed for all of its subscribers (so that customers may not go away to PTCL). It’s been two weeks now but there is no word yet from LDN. Today I called their helpline and asked [...]

A fellow at WiredPakistan did some Googling and found that Pakistanis enjoy very in-expensive broadband internet when compared to other parts of world. Though there are instances in Pakistan, where customers are not happy with link or customer support at times, but guys this happens all over the world – whereever computer networks are involved, problems may come there. For reference sake $20=PK Rs. 1600, [...]