As per the PTA report 2007-2008, Telecommunication industry has employed human resources in hundreds for several fields like Engineering, Commercial, and Operations etc. In Pakistan, as the industry is very lucrative, the main career path can be Telecom Engineering, MBA (marketing), MBA (HR), or even any graduation degree for call center jobs. Like everywhere in the world, the initial step of getting in to industry [...]

The best thing we often find as an good example is the system of the western world, where the consumer rights are equally protected. You may spend decade in these countries and hardly face any fraud, misleading statement/advertising or higher prices. The result is that the consumer is satisfied more then any thing. Their system is based on justice and equality. In countries like Pakistan, [...]

Dr. Kesir Bengali was briefing the media that the new democratic government will provide one thousand financial supports to over 3 million families monthly, under Benazir Income Support Program (BISP). We have collected data of these families from Nadra. As income wise data was not available to us, so we first saw who is illiterate and his children can’t study more then primary education. So [...]

PTA has recently released the subscriber’s stats of mobile operators, which are somewhat similar to what we saw in recent months. Mobilink has lost its huge customer base with almost 1,575,587 subscribers in couple of months only and so far market dynamics predict that Mobilink will keep on loosing customer base in January as well. Without wasting any time, as already much of time has [...]

Higher Education Commission (HEC) has planned to soon initiate online verification of degrees of students intending to visit abroad for further education. This was stated by Member Operations and Planning HEC Dr Mukhtar Ahmad. The commission would verify degrees and certificates of students intending to get admissions abroad, in Pakistani universities or for getting jobs through online procedure, he said. He admitted that the recent [...]

Following the Intel Provincial Science Olympiads held recently across Sindh, ICT, Punjab and Baluchistan where young scientists presented innovative research-based projects in the categories of biology, chemistry, computer sciences, mathematics and physics, Intel Pakistan Corporation marked the end of its nation-wide science competitions with the Intel National Science Olympiad held today. Widely attended by youth from all across Pakistan, the National Science Olympiad, which is [...]

This is‘wow’ news, especially for those who are doing their online businesses or those who are concerned with online population of Pakistan, latest stats from “Internet World Stats” are for sure a sigh of satisfaction for them. Not only this, but another fact is even more interesting that Pakistan stands at rank 7 in Asia for number of users beating even Malaysia (though it is [...]

We remember that Mobilink signed an agreement with Pakistan Post Office to introduce Mobile Money Order Service in Pakistan, back in last week of November 2008. The agreement was signed by Ahsan Basir Sheikh, Additional Director General (Financial Services) from Pakistan Post and Bilal Munir Sheikh, VP Marketing from Mobilink. Everything looked good, in fact we were expecting the execution of service by now, but [...]

We know that activating and then setting up GPRS on you handset remains a tedious job for many customers. ZONG has taken customer care a notch higher by allowing subscribers the facility to use internet on their existing GPRS enabled mobile handsets without having to set new internet settings. This latest value add from ZONG allows its subscribers to use mobile internet with any settings [...]

It is a well known fact that we had a splendor time in Pakistan’s banking industry during recent years. We all witnessed the fact that banking sector was the most expanding and growing sector of Pakistan (along with Telecom). First time in the history of Pakistan, consumer products were launched and banks were offering easy and small loans to every employee of the Government and [...]

Generally, in Pakistan we don’t care much about security, and this is truly due to lack of education for Information security in the country. Though there are few people who work really hard and put their best efforts to protect their data/computers/web servers from hacking attempts. I have raised the issue several times about hacking, I mentioned the reasons about why they hack websites, how [...]

Micronet Broadband Limited has broken the long run silence, and has come up with most economical (unlimited DSL) broadband package available in the country. Now MBL is offering 1 MB link, with unlimited download/upload at Rs. 1,199 per month. By the way, this package comes with a dynamic IP address. (Official weblink here) It merits mentioning here that Micronet covers only Rawalpndi/Islamabad for broadband DSL [...]

Students of the Institute of Information and Communication Technology (IICT) have developed robots that can pick and place objects in places dangerous for humans, a remote vehicle control and monitoring system and an enterprise planning system for Thermal Power House Jamshoro besides many other projects using advance technology. The students of the final year had put on display their projects at an exhibition. A group [...]

Disclaimer: Being a terrible victim of Link Dot Net, following story may not have neutral approach. In the first part I will narrate why I am using Free Broadband, and what factors forced me to do so. In the latter part, I will tell you how to use FREE Link Dot Net services ; -) so keep reading! I am using Link Dot Net for [...]

Ufone has officially come up with this new package (they say its first time in Pakistan), called Collect Call. With Ufone Collect Call you can remain connected and make calls even when you don’t wish to pay for a call, so you no longer require sending people missed calls as the receiving party pays for the call charges. With Collect Call you can even make [...]