PTCL has signed revenue sharing agreements with three major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) including Link dot Net, Sky Net and Comsats. The agreement signing ceremony was held at PTA HQs, Islamabad under the chairmanship of Chairman PTA, Dr. Mohammed Yaseen, where representatives of PTA, PTCL and ISPs were also present. It may be mentioned that ISP industry, over the past few years was not making [...]

Faisalabad based 12-year Irtiza Haider has become world’s youngest Cisco Certified Network Associate. He is a 8th class student. The CCNA, is a certification that emphasizes on the technology and skills needed to work with networks of 100 nodes or fewer, covering both IP and non-IP networks including IPX and AppleTalk. Moreover, you need to have 80 percent of the questions correctly answered in the [...]

As the year 2008 is about to conclude, we can see not that good atmosphere for Mobile Phone manufacturers. Consequently, one can easily anticipate sales going down in year 2009 as customers will be looking for more value than of high priced gadgets. We also saw many markets, globally, maturing into saturated industries, mobile handsets may see a significant change in terms of functionality. We [...]

Pakistan ended November 2008 with 90.41 million mobile phone users decreasing by 0.1 percent compared with 90.51 million in October 2008, according to figures from Pakistan Telecom Authority. Mobilink remains the market leader with 30.06 million customers, despite losing 827,000 customers during November, followed by Ufone with 19.1 million. Telenor was in third place with 18.88 million subscribers, followed by Warid with 16.66 million subscribers. [...]

Pakistan Telecom Authority has released results for Quality of Service (QoS) Survey for Dial-up Internet Service Providers of Pakistan. As per PTA, this Quality of Service (QoS) Survey of ISPs was conducted in seventeen (17) major and small cities throughout the country in October –November 2008. Parameters checked were the availability of service, connection setup time, download speed, download time and connection stability during busy [...]

Guest Post By Nazakat Hussain Internet equipped computers are now widely used in schools, and 100′s of millions of children and teenagers around the world use computers for educational and leisure purposes. Unfortunately there are many aspects of the use of home computers and their associated use can be of concern to parents. As our families become increasingly intertwined with it, the more active role [...]

PTA successfully liberalized the telecom sector of Pakistan in an efficient, transparent and fastest deregulation of telecom in the region The Government of Pakistan gave the status of Industry to Pakistan Telecommunication Sector With de-regulation of telecom sector, PTA awarded 14 Long Distance and International licenses, 38 fixed local loop licenses and 17 Wireless Local Loop licenses. Under the deregulation process PTA awarded two new [...]

Editor’s Note: We are deliberately not disclosing bank’s name to secure it from competitive disadvantage, also this hack incident is not related in any case with previous hacking posts published on ProPakistani.com A leading bank of Pakistan got hacked with complete compromise over its services and server, earlier this month. This compromise, as per very reliable sources resulted into financial loss as well. In the [...]

Editor’s Note: This article is published while eying advertising budgets for both days, and bears no political cause. Pakistan is now 61 year old and every year, we have been celebrating Quaid day as a national day at least up to the media with print ads in newspapers. But, this is the unfortunate year in the history of Pakistan that we are not celebrating Quaid [...]

India and Pakistan share not only the history and culture but also the way people of both countries think for specific matters. Governments of both nations judged the demand of Telecom and IT, very early, somewhere in mid nineties. But when it comes to execution and better planning, India just crossed Pakistan. Though India has quantitative advantages, but now at this point of time, it [...]

Syed Hasnat Masood is Director Corporate Communications and Responsibility, Telenor Pakistan. Hasnat has been with Telenor since September 2005. Hasnat’s department has three distinct functionalities: External Corporate Communications deals with the media to establish company position on various subjects; Internal Corporate Communications streamlines management-employee interactions to create better understanding of corporate objectives; Corporate Responsibility aims to integrate community relations into corporate strategy. Before joining Telenor [...]

Atif Shamim, a Pakistani electronics PhD student at Carleton University, has built a prototype that extends the battery life of mobile phones, by getting rid of all the wires used to connect the electronic circuits with the antenna. The invention involves a packaging technique to connect the antenna with the circuits via a wireless connection between a micro-antenna embedded within the circuits on the chip. [...]

Submarine Cables that are responsible for Internet and telephone communications between the Asia and Europe are reportedly cut down between Italy and Egypt in the Mediterranean Sea. In this mysterious activity (can be co-incidence as well) all three major undersea cables called SE-ME-WE3, SE-ME-WE4 and flag got damaged today. The failures cut the flow of internet and voice data between Europe and Asia, and there’s [...]

Buying a mobile phone is not an easy task. Sometimes you make mistakes that you regret later on, as you try to get a mobile phone but fail to judge if it’s worth buying. By the way, just buying what is popular is not always a good idea. I have made this guide for you guys, so you can consider these things and buy the [...]

Ufone has come up with best EDGE/GPRS USB package…! Ufone says that you need to pay Rs. 6,999 (inclusive of all taxes) and Get Ufone’s EDGE Card for your desktop/PC and Ufone’s Data SIM and use unlimited Internet for 6 months for FREE….! Sounds gr8! We know that Telenor is offering its USB Card costs Rs. 12,700 while Zong’s USB is priced at Rs. 9,999. [...]