Ali Zafar Was Telenor’s Brand Ambassador, wasn’t he? If this was the case then what’s this in following advert? When Mobilink took him on board? We know that cellular companies used to fight for employees, but this battle of snatching brand ambassador is something we saw for the first time. Our inside sources have communicated us that Ali Murtaza, who is heading Jazz Brand brought [...]

Wi-Tribe has officially launched its Wi-MAX services in Pakistan – they did a press conference yesterday, where they inaugurated their services. We know that Wi-Tribe had been testing since long, and then soft launch happened, however, this marks their official launch in 3 cities of Pakistan, Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. Broadband Packages About Packages, i am afraid there is nothing much to cheer, reason is [...]

Universal Service Fund signed three contracts with PTCL for providing Broadband Services in the Un-Served Urban areas of Southern Punjab and Lower Sindh and for providing Optic Fiber connectivity to all Tehsils in Southern Balochistan.  CEO-PTCL, Walid Irshaid and Chief Executive Officer Universal Service Fund, Parvez Iftikhar signed these contracts. Universal Service Fund shall be paying Rs. 1.16 Billion for the project to provide broadband [...]

Mobilink today signed an agreement with Citibank N.A Pakistan (“Citi”), to promote and facilitate the growth of mobile commerce in Pakistan. Under the agreement, Citi will utilize Mobilink’s extensive retail infrastructure to extend the reach of financial services to the previously un-reached masses starting initially at select pilot locations followed by nation-wide launch in line with State Bank of Pakistan’s guidelines. Speaking at the signing [...]

An Introduction to Social Media Social media means online content created by a distinct group of individuals using web based tools and technologies. Social media is a mix of technology and sociology which has enabled people to express their views by publishing their thoughts, feedback and criticism about any person, news, products, services, etc. Social media is a change from one-to-one discussion to many-to-many discussion. [...]

PTA has finally realized the need of E-commerce gateway in Pakistan. Be-lated but still Timely. Right now,they are looking forward to a consultancy firm to help them in this project. Here is what PTA says about the need for gateway: With the advent of Internet technology and its rapid growth during the last few years, electronic commerce has become an increasing reality. While e-commerce still [...]

We recently created a Facebook page of ProPakistani to help our readers to get all the breaking updates directly in their Facebook feeds. We would like you all to join us on Facebook page and keep you feedback coming there. You can also upload pictures, videos and start discussions there. ProPakistani team will be there to reply to all of your queries. We will see [...]

The rural television audience in Pakistan has overtaken the urban audience, a fact that advertisers and communicators must not overlook in order to run effective media campaigns and advertisements, according to the National Establishment Survey conducted by Gallup Pakistan. It said that the urban audience measurement can be highly misleading as less than one in four television viewers live in the top ten cities in [...]

Internet connectivity depends on having an Internet (protocol, IP) address. The current IP version in use is 4 and the unallocated pool of available IPv4 address space is depleting and according to various reports, 85% of the total four billion IPv4 address were already allocated by 2008 where the possible estimated exhaustion of the IPv4 addresses will be around 2011 or 2012. According to the [...]

Ufone has introduced this voice bundle, that looks good to me – with what Ufone customers can make calls at 60 Paisas per 30 seconds for all networks. Price of this voice bundle is Rs. 90 (exclusive of taxes) and you can use 150 half minute calls (or 75 full minutes, but remember pulse rate is 30 seconds). How to Subscribe: To subscribe to Ufone [...]

Wi-tribe is making sparkling new addition to the Wimax competition, a USB gadget for Wimax connectivity. Inside sources in Wi-tribe have revealed to us that Motorola has already supplied the USB dongles to the company and Wi-Tribe is testing these gadgets these days. Motorola has came up with USB dongle last year and they have received huge applause for this USB based WiMAX device. USB [...]

Pakistan continues to be the frontline state in the “war on terror” as well as a playground for international powers. The war is taking the toll on all aspects of development and the population both in the rural and urban regions will continue to be deprived of quality access and of ICT-based development opportunities. With such a crisis, surveillance and national security are the key [...]

As we had anticipated, today at Mobilink, downsizing has begun with full force and things happened in a way that was never seen before in company’s history. Employees were stunned and shocked the way they were terminated. All these were permanent employees, who were not allowed to go to their seats either in the morning or after Jumma prayer and security was called to collect [...]