Despite the confirmations from Election Commission of Pakistan for not suspending the mobile phone services on Election Day, it is feared that cellular and other wireless services are likely to go offline on May 11th, 2013, the Election Day. Cellular companies aren’t issued any such warnings so far, but they anticipate that on-going law and order situation in the country and prevailing security threats might [...]

Mobilink has stepped up to offer 80 percent discount on its Facebook bundle and Twitter bundle for free during general elections 2013. Mobilink said that its prepaid Jazz and Jazba customers will be able to avail Facebook bundle for Rs. 1 per day from May 10th to May 13th, 2013. Company said that it aims to provide its customers with easy and affordable way of [...]

Viber, primarily a multi-platform app that allows voice and text chat between phone users, has now released its desktop version of app for Windows and Mac. This landmark announcement was made yesterday after which Viber is now officially in line to take on Skype that has around or over 600 million users. Viber said that it has over 200 million users from various platforms, and [...]

Election Commission of Pakistan has barred the voters to bring their mobile phones to polling station on May 11th, 2013, i.e. Election Day. ECP said that decision was taken to ensure the transparency, avoid any possibility of poll-rigging, violence on Election Day, manipulation of votes or selling of votes. ECP said that it had enough evidences of voters taking pictures of their ballot papers as [...]

Pakistan Muslim League (N), through Senator Ishaq Dar, has registered a complaint with Election Commission of Pakistan against Telenor Pakistan for supporting a specific political party without naming it. PML (N), in a letter to ECP, said that Telenor Pakistan has allocated funds for promoting and funding the election campaign of a political party. In response, SECP has sought Telenor Pakistan’s response on the complaint [...]

Ufone has offered this new plan for its customers with which they can make unlimited calls from Ufone to Ufone and Ufone to PTCL for entire month at a fixed monthly rate of Rs. 300 plus tax. You will have to subscribe to Ufone Monthly Bolo Pakistan Offer once to enjoy almost unlimited calls for entire month. Ufone’s Monthly Bolo Pakistan offer can be availed [...]

KWICK High Tech & Solutions is the Pakistan’s first SIM and Smart Card manufacturer. The state of the art manufacturing facility was inaugurated by the German Ambassador in Pakistan Dr. Cyrill Nunn along with Dr. Zafar Iqbal, Secretary of Ministry of Information Technology Pakistan on May 07, 2013 in Islamabad, The inauguration session was also attended by high officials from all major Telecom & Banking [...]

Warid Telecom has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Monet and Meezan Bank for rollout of the Warid Telecom Payment Gateway for Meezan Bank’s branchless banking services, with Monet as the technology partner for the venture. Through this memorandum, Warid Telecom and Bank Alfalah have been joined by Meezan Bank as founding members to create the Mobile Money Network which would be subject to SBP [...]

Mobilink has signed Ericsson, the world’s number one vendor and known to be the most expensive and sophisticated telecom equipment maker, for network expansion and 3G roll-out, maintenance and other network functions, we have confirmed with sources. While you may know that Mobilink had signed long term contracts with Huawei and Alcatel-Lucent, just couple of months back, for its network expansion, modernization and laid the foundation of future 3G roll [...]

Usman Ishaq, who had resigned from Zong recently, has reportedly joined Ufone as head of sales and distribution  – we have confirmed with sources. Usman will be responsible for entire sales’ function of Ufone and all the four General Manager sales will report to him directly. While Mr. Ishaq will be reporting to Mr. Salman Wassay, CCO, Ufone. As per sources, Usman had couple of [...]

HTC, in collaboration with Mobilink, has launched the android smart phone “Butterfly”. Butterfly will be distributed to market by Brigthex. Consumers will be able to enjoy various add-ons provided by Mobilink, including a 30 days exclusive bundle, 1 GB internet, as well as a pouch and protector. ‘Butterfly’ is the latest of the HTC series which strives to transform the way one hears, sees and [...]

Unlike many of us had feared, mobile phone services are not going to get suspended on Election Day, told Ishtiaq Ahmed, Secretary Election Commission, while speaking with media yesterday. There were partial guesses about the suspension of mobile phone services – at least in sensitive areas of the country – on election day, i.e. May 11th, 2013. However, this statement by Secretary Election Commission turns [...]

Warid Telecom has offered its latest services for prepaid and post-paid customers in view of the upcoming elections. Customers will be able to receive news and updates regarding election oriented television shows, polling station locations, campaign and candidate news and updates straight from the polling booths. Users can also find out the details of any particular constituency by sending the constituency number to the short [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) and Bahria Town have today signed MoU agreement, through which PTCL will deploy Information Communication Technology (ICT) services and infrastructure in Bahria Enclave, Islamabad. The agreement shall enable residents of Bahria Enclave to experience superior telecom services of PTCL including voice telephony, broadband internet and SmartTV as well as Pakistan’s fastest and most reliable EVO wireless broadband internet services. The [...]

Mobilink is freeing up its resources – mainly from technical department – by laying off over 100 employees in a single go, we have confirmed with sources. This extreme action was taken when employees were served with sudden, without any notice, the termination letters today Morning. What’s surprising here is that employees were not notified beforehand, thus giving this step a rather undignified notion on [...]