PTCL has announced this recent most activation offer for EVO customers. Under this promotion, any EVO subscriber who has not recharged his EVO account since 1st of August 2012 can simply recharge today and enjoy 100% FREE balance for the next respective period equal to the amount of first recharge or line rent paid. Post-Paid Customers: For Post-paid customers, Winback offer would be offering following [...]

By Naveed Siraj, Country Manager, Intel Pakistan In the last decade, despite IT investments in the government and enterprise segments, majority of consumers in Pakistan remains deprived of affordable computers and internet access. Pakistan has one of the lowest PC & broadband penetration rates in the world. Taking into account what we pay for computing & connectivity over a 3-year period of usage, recurring cost [...]

Cloudflare, a cloud based network security and acceleration solution, has recently claimed that PTCL DNS servers can be a source of large sized DNS Amplification DDoS attacks. In a blog post, cloudflare mentioned mitigating a DDoS attack, with 20Gbps twenty-four hours a day for over three weeks, and PTCL was found to be a major contributor for this DNS amplification DDoS attack. First, to understand [...]

PTCL is once again offering free upgrade of 1Mbps DSL broadband users to 2Mbps without any extra charge till January 1st, 2013. This offer is available to all new and existing customers, who can avail 2Mbps DSL speed at the charge of 1Mbps. Charges for 1 Mbps DSL is currently Rs. 1,250 per month. This is an opt-in offer and customers will have to call [...]

Wateen Telecom was recently invited to participate in the prestigious Forbes Global CEO conference, held recently in Dubai, from 21st-23rd October 2012. The Forbes Global CEO Summit takes place annually and aims at creating an opportunity for global leaders to meet, engage in business and discuss visions for a sustainable future. The summit, which concluded successfully in Dubai, gathered some 400 global CEOs, tycoons, entrepreneurs, [...]

PTCL today introduced this EVO Wingle, a WiFi Dongle running on 9.3 Mbps Rev B network to create a WiFi hotspot in circumference of 100 meters of Dongle. Unlike PTCL’s Tenda Routers and Nitro WiFi Cloud, EVO Wingle is a USB WiFi device which can get connected through any power source to create a WiFi hotspot for internet sharing on all WiFi enabled devices in [...]

wi-tribe yesterday announced its new ‘unlimited internet’ packages. With exciting and affordable new rates, customers can now stay connected, browse, download and do much more online for as low as Rs. 999 per month. Alongside lowered rates for 512 Kbps & 2 Mbps packages, wi-tribe has also introduced a new 1 Mbps package, providing customers with more options to select an experience that best suit [...]

Wateen Telecom CEO Naeem Zamindar and Zouhair Khaliq, Member Board of Directors Wateen, were recently honored at the Pakistan Power 100, a forum recognizing the most influential Pakistani men & women internationally, whose exceptional work makes an enormous and essential contribution to the wealth, health and intellectual well-being of their respective countries. Zouhair Khaliq and Naeem Zamindar are the only members from Pakistan’s telecoms community [...]

The 11th edition of the Asia Pacific HRM Congress (held in India) saw wi-tribe Pakistan’s Director Human Capital, Alia Zafar wining the ‘HR Professional of the Year’ award. The Congress was held on the 6th& 7th of September, 2012 at Vivanta by Taj, Bangalore, India. Asia Pacific HRM Congress Awards recognize individuals and organizations for bench marking HR practices. A council of board members and [...]

Wateen Telecom has been recognized with Cisco Customer Satisfaction Excellence award. Wateen won this award for the second time because of its exceptional level of customer service level during the last two quarters, said a statement issued by the company. Customer Satisfaction Excellence is the highest distinction a partner can achieve within the Cisco Channel Partner Program.   Mr. Naeem Zamindar, CEO Wateen Telecom, in [...]

Cybernet recently held events to introduce their infrastructure service to the IT market in Pakistan. The events, titled “Leveraging the Cloud to Build a Smart Organization” took place in Lahore and Karachi on the 18th and the 26th of September respectively. The service, branded as RapidCompute is claimed by company as Pakistan’s first cloud computing service and falls under the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IAAS) category of cloud [...]

By Naeem Zamindar The past twenty years have been an extraordinary time for the development of information and communication technologies (ICTs) – with the ‘mobile miracle’ we have brought the benefits of ICTs within reach of virtually all the world’s people. It is now time to make the next step, and to ensure that everyone – wherever they live, and whatever their circumstances – have [...]

PTCL’s 9.3 Mbps EVO Nitro with unlimited data, that was earlier charged at Rs. 3,000 per month, is now being offered by PTCL at Rs. 2,100 per month for a period of one year. PTCL has announced that all new customers who will make a new purchase of EVO Nitro after September 20th, 2012 will be able to enjoy EVO Nitro at monthly rental of [...]

As we reported earlier, YouTube ban has impacted various other Google Services in Pakistan, resulting into slow load times or no-connectivity of Google products in the country. Google services that are severely impacted on various ISPs in Pakistan include: Google Maps Google Drive Google Analytics Google Docs Google Image Search Blogger Google Plus Play Store on Android Devices Google Apps (Gmail, Sync, Maps, or any [...]

Responding to ISPAK’s allegations (published here yesterday), PTCL has taken a strong exception to it. The spectrum is legally owned by PTCL and all the services the company provides are within that frame work. PTCL clarifies that there was no violation on part of PTCL for use of any spectrum. PTCL has been using frequency spectrum in the 450MHz, 3.5GHz and 1900 MHz bandwidth as [...]