By Mehwish Khan · Tuesday, Nov 17, 2009 5 Comments
This question must be in minds of almost all employees in today’s world - especially those who were hired at low pay-scale with a promise of increment based on performance and time, but that never happened.
Also there would be employees who are actually over working than what they are getting paid; such professionals usually start thinking of better...
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By Aamir Attaa · Friday, Jul 31, 2009 0 Comments
Shah Kamal, a resident of Kharochhan, 150 kilometer south of Karachi has derived a way to produce electricity, initially for his own home and then for 100 homes of his small island.
Earlier this island had no electricity supply, and fishermen felt that Government of Pakistan is not well placed to provide electricity – hence, they took the initiative...
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By Fouad Bajwa · Tuesday, Jul 28, 2009 0 Comments
Pakistan is amongst those few countries in the world that have laid down the most advanced telecom infrastructure compared to other developing regions. Amidst its hardships, Pakistan’s telecom sector has made great progress eliminating the hurdles of the previous analogue and low-speed telecommunication networks transformed into a high speed broadband...
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By Kamran Bukhari · Wednesday, Mar 4, 2009 0 Comments
As mentioned earlier by Aamir Attaa about TAXI Fare via SMS, I thought of yet another service if possible for our operators to give it to us. This service can be named as Remote Health Checkup – Keep Reading to know what actually it will be.
Now, this concept is nothing but getting your loved ones health updates on central system. There are times...
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By Aamir Attaa · Tuesday, Mar 3, 2009 0 Comments
With more than 90 million cellular customers in Pakistan Telecom sector, 4.5 million landline users and 5 million internet users, 170,000 broadband users, we should now move beyond the basic telephony and internet services and start using these modern era communication means to further better our living standards.
We have started seeing SMS subscription...
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By Aamir Attaa · Sunday, Feb 8, 2009 19 Comments
I have received mixed response about newly adopted design on ProPakistani.com through emails, comments, phone calls and verbal communication.
Many readers welcomed this new designed, liked the layout and color mixing, but equal amount of readers said that previous Greenish Theme was good.
Readers came up with following opinions
There is not Green Color...
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By Naeem Pani Wala · Friday, Jan 30, 2009 0 Comments
These days the hotspot word about our economy is “recession”. Every one is talking about it and in such times consumers think twice while spending and consuming, as a result, companies have to respond accordingly. Two areas where the highest impact is expected are sales and the cost of incurred in generating sales, in other words even more media...
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By Aamir Attaa · Thursday, Jan 29, 2009 5 Comments
We know that cellular operators of Pakistan did their best in utilizing every possible channel for selling their connections, and for sure they succeeded in it. But during all this they didn’t focus much on verification of subscribers’ data that resulted in increased concerns of law enforcement agencies, as there were plenty of un-registered...
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By Reality Bites · Wednesday, Jan 28, 2009 23 Comments
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.
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By Reality Bites · Monday, Jan 26, 2009 0 Comments
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.
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By Aamir Attaa · Sunday, Jan 25, 2009 11 Comments
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...
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By Aamir Attaa · Saturday, Jan 24, 2009 0 Comments
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...
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By Aamir Attaa · Friday, Jan 23, 2009 0 Comments
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...
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By Muhammad Ali Raza · Friday, Jan 23, 2009 0 Comments
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...
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By Aamir Attaa · Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009 9 Comments
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...
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