Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) today announced that it has achieved one million broadband customers in the country, that is over or around 50 percent of broadband market share. A messages by Mr. Walid Irshaid, President and CEO PTCL, published on its official website says: With over 3 million fixed line users and 1 million Broadband...
According to reliable sources at Zong, Usman Ishaq, Director Marketing, Zong has been promoted to Executive Director Commercial on the basis of his proven outstanding performance – especially during last 8 months – since he was appointed as Director Marketing. Usman has played a key role in developing marketing strategy and providing direction...
Read this post in Urdu In a disturbing news lately, it was revealed that Chairman PTA, Dr. Muhammad Yasin has been getting an Eidi bonus for himself valuing Rs. 350,000, that’s equal to his one month basic salary. Mr. Yasin admitted this during a Public Accounts Committee meeting this week. Chairman further revealed that this Eidi bonus was enjoyed...
Read this post in Urdu Google is rolling out its new system for connecting the search able terms – they are calling them real life objects – to present better search results for the web users. Google will store search terms (or objects) in its database to connect them with related terms (or objects) to co-relate them with each other. This co-relation...
Read this post in Urdu Ufone, in addition to special daily mobile internet bundle, has introduced a daily mobile internet bundle (with 24 hours validity) with a daily volume cap of 200 MBs at a sufficient rate of Rs. 10 per day (including taxes). That’s Rs. 300 per month (on average) for a maximum download limit of 6 GBs (200 MB x 30 days). The good...
Read this post in Urdu Wasim Akram, the legendary cricketer also known as “King of Swing” has left Mobilink to join Ufone as its brand ambassador. Once the brand ambassador for Mobilink, Wasim Akram appeared in a Ufone TVC that was aired yesterday. Ufone showed Akram playing with a ball in a prison cell (replicating Tom cruise’s scene in Mission...
PTCL has played its long kept GB card for its EVO services. To give the WiMAX service providers a tough time, PTCL EVO now comes at decreased rates with monthly limit of 5 and 10 GB (in addition to a package that offers unlimited downloads with 3.1 mbps and 256 kbps speeds). These packages are especially suitable for those who want to retain EVO services...
Advocating its commitment of spreading smiles and bringing joy to the children across Pakistan, Ufone held a fun carnival for the children of SOS village on the 14th of May 2012 to inaugurate the recently developed play area. SOS Pakistan recently built a new establishment in Islamabad boasting a spectacular facility but was in dire need for swings...
Finally the word is out. Nokia has officially unveiled two feature phones from Pakistan namely Nokia 110 and Nokia 112. Unlike we were expecting full touch S40 series phones from Asha series, Nokia has introduced low end devices – that it is calling for the next billion – Nokia 110, and Nokia 112 – entry level phones with optimized internet accessibility. Aim...
Djuice has introduced Android 2.3.3 powered Alcatel One Touch 990 smartphone in Pakistan. Priced at PKR 14,999 – djuice will offer free unlimited internet for three months for those who will use djuice SIM with this phone. Inside the phone there is a 600 MHz processor coupled with 150 MB internal memory with a 2 GB MicroSD card shipped with the phone...
Mobilink has posted a 10 percent YoY increase in revenues for first quarter 2012 with EBITDA up 15 percent in local currency, said the financial statement issued by Mobilink’s holding group Orascom Telecom. Mobilink’s revenues were negatively impacted by currency devaluation, translating into 4% revenue growth in US$ terms compared to 10% growth...
By ZunNurain Khalid A few days back I was surfing internet for my daily routine work. I landed on a news post on ProPakistani telling a story of a hacked site of one of the prestigious universities here in Islamabad. Well, that was not a surprise for me at all frankly, because over the past few months I have seen many websites, blogs and servers being...
You remember this Nokia’s Global Launch event happening tomorrow that we told you about last week? Well rumors are suggesting that Nokia is planning for the launch of two full touch screen feature phones come smartphones featuring full swipe functionality (just like N9) based on its S40 operating system. Nokia is aiming these two models for the next...
Pakistan Software Houses Association (P@SHA) today unveiled its research report on working women in Pakistan IT industry, in a press conference held in Karachi. The research is based on responses from 50 companies and 125 individuals – it targeted IT companies as well as large IT departments within non-IT companies. Research report revealed that...
Brand manager and social media consultants always remain hungry for information about their customers’ engagement, interactions and requirements on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks. They are specifically under lot of stress if they are managing a product, brand or service targeted for Pakistani audience – just because foreign companies...
