The transition of county code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) of Pakistan “.pk” has been successfully completed marking it as the most significant and noteworthy landmark in the internet history of the county. In this regard, Chairman PTA, Dr. Mohammed Yaseen today visited the Lahore office of PKNIC. PKNIC is the present ccTLD operator for “.pk” domain. The purpose of his visit was to appraise the [...]

Face of Pakistan (including 32 ministries) http://pakistan.gov.pk is down for one hour now. It is not possible for me comprehend the non-seriousness of government’s IT department, and the down time of such an important portal. We are told that guys responsible for the http://pakistan.gov.pk are off for weekend, So let’s wait and see when it will come back. Any private companies, go ahead and offer [...]

Telenor Pakistan, under its ‘Easyload Millionaire Prize Scheme 2’, will give away prizes worth PKR 14.5 million to retail partners from different regions of Pakistan. Retail Partners who have exceeded their sales for the month of March 09 by 10 percent in May 09 are eligible to enter the lucky draw. More than 135,000 retail partners from across the country participated in the scheme. The [...]

News is that the Pakistan Software Export Board PSEB is publishing a revised edition of IT Industry Year Book 07-08. PSEB uses this publication in its international marketing activities where the year book documents the profiles of PSEB member IT companies in order to provide an accurate and detailed picture of the Pakistan IT Industry and its multifold growth over the past few years. PSEB’s [...]

Recession – we know this word so well, so let’s move forward, and talk about cost cutting first. There is no doubt that companies are earning lesser than what they used to do couple of years ago, despite the increase in customers’ base. Hence, businesses are bearing the cost both ways, lesser revenues and more operating expenses (due to increased customers). We have seen some [...]

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We know that cellular companies used to copy tariffs, Value Added Services and then came brand ambassadors; however, this has started happening with adverts too. Not a bad move by Telenor, I must admit, but I do have reservations when it comes to the execution of idea. With its latest Talkshawk package, Telenor promoted it through descriptive advert, which was actually in shape of news [...]

This is tough time for telecom vendors in Pakistan due to recession and lack of network expansion projects by cellular companies in the country. It is learnt by Propakistani that ZTE Pakistan, who was once market leader during 2003-05 in Pakistan is now planning for downsize by 30% of its overall headcount. In year 2003-2005 ZTE Pakistan’s overall headcount was close to 1000 employees on [...]

Telenor has offered this discounted hour offer for Telenor Talkshawk 30 second subscribers, through which they can make calls at Rs. 0.20 (Plus Tax) per 30 seconds on all Telenor numbers between 10 AM to 5 PM, while calls made on FnF numbers will cost Rs. 0.13 (plus tax) during same time period that is 10 AM to 5 PM. Here is the bad news, [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has restored international incoming traffic for Telecard, which was suspended in May 2009 due to nonpayment of APC for Universal Service Fund, told us sources at PTA. We are told that Telecard has paid all their pending dues before PTA restored its international incoming traffic. All cellular companies and PTCL has been informed about the regulator’s decision and asking operators to permit [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority sent relief goods worth one million Rupees for internally displaced persons (IDPs) of Malakand Division.  The relief items were sent from the PTA Zonal Office, Peshawar. The relief goods include electric fans, air coolers, stoves, mattresses and foods items mainly flour, cooking oil, milk, rice, sugar, tea, pulses, baby food items etc.  The goods were distributed in various IDPs camps located at [...]

The second meeting of Broadband Stakeholders Group (BSG) constituted by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) held yesterday at PTA Headquarters, Islamabad. Chairman PTA Dr. Mohammed Yaseen chaired the session; participants included senior management of telecom companies, service providers and software association. Broadband is considered as a key enabler for enhancing social and economic productivity of a country. Broadband is critical to the delivery of private sector [...]

After experiencing phenomenal growth for last couple of years, Telecom sector of Pakistan exhibited positive but slow growth in terms of revenue, subscribers and teledensity during period July 2008 to March 2009. Total density, at the end of third quarter (March 2009), reached 60.6 percent. However, cellular subscribers lead the share in total teledensity by 93.7 percent followed by Fixed Local Loop (FLL) 3.8 percent [...]

The answer was NO – “We don’t have required mechanism in place, both hardware and software, that can monitor and then filter out SMS traffic”, told us an official from a cellular company while requesting anonymity. He said that nothing is impossible, we can track all the voice and data traffic over GSM network, but that requires extra features to be added in our systems, [...]

Thanks to all those who participated in a fun quiz at ProPakistani. A question was asked to guess the numbers of Comments that are Awaiting Approval or were not approved. Below image will clarify things Salman Khan’s guess was closest as he answered 4500 – Congratulations man! Mohammad Abbas was second nearest – his guess was 2500 Moral: So those people who keep on and [...]