Telenor Group today announced the launch of its first ever corporate branding campaign. Under the slogan ‘Built around People’, the campaign reinforces Telenor’s belief that people are at the heart of its business. To be officially launched on March 25th, the campaign includes extensive advertising on key pan-Asian TV channels, print and digital...
Mobile phones worth $103 million were imported into the country during the first eight months of the current fiscal year, Geo News reported Sunday. The mobile phones imports are three percent in excess of that of last fiscal year. According to statistics issued by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), machinery and products used in telecom sector worth...
Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly has directed Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to lodge First Investigation Report (FIR) against Directors of 4 telecom companies within 48 hours for stealing tax worth Rs. 320 million in fiscal year of 2006-07, reported Online and carried by various newspapers. Ch Nisar Ali, Chairman PAC asked FBR to...
People of Pakistan, for last few years at least, have started expressing their thoughts and opinions – through Facebook, Twitter, blogging, text messages, rallies, elections and so on. One will agree that a common Pakistani is more aware of surroundings than he was ever before. Not only this, he can sense the upcoming threats, he want to comment...
Few days ago, we mentioned BBC’s Survey report that evaluated 27,000 respondents from across the world to calculate their thoughts and behavior for internet access and its usability. Thanks to BBC, we got hold of summary report that reveals several facts about internet users in the world. We have extracted information for Pakistani Internet users,...
Terming low ARPU as the main cause for not getting high returns and sizeable growth, Jon Eddy Abdullah, Telenor Pakistan’s Chief Executive, urged telecom companies in Pakistan merging/acquiring, even before the launch of 3G in the country. In an interview with Financial Times, Telenor Pakistan’s chief said that five operators in one market are too...
Due to widespread use of computers and electronic gadgets, every tabletop is now a maze of wires connecting computers, peripherals and other devices. Experienced by all of us, the mess of wires is the most unwanted, nevertheless the most unavoidable impediment on our desks. Bluetooth technology provides a solution by interconnecting these devices over...
India is planning to seek meeting with Pakistan to resolve issue of cross-border telecom signals which are affecting the quality of cellular operators of both countries in Punjab border areas. Indian cellular operators have complained that signals of Pakistani telecom providers are crossing into Indian territory in Punjab, leading to interference with...
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has awarded gold medals with cash prizes to 12 students of various educational institutes of the country for the best research projects on IT & telecom for the year 2009. Secretary Cabinet Division, Abdul Rauf Chaudhry presented gold medals to the winners of the competition during a ceremony held at PTA...
PTA is working out on a mechanism which will enable mobile phone users to call toll free number for free of charge. Currently, toll free numbers (numbers starting with 0800) are not free for Mobile phone users. A toll-free or freephone number is a special telephone number, in which the called party is usually charged the cost of the calls by the telephone...
After Punjab Assembly, NWFP’s provincial assembly has also passed a resolution to put immediate ban on late night calling packages. In fact they went even further, and demanded ban on SMS packages too. Some may term the SMS part little harsh, but night packages are not seen well by many eyes. By the way, Punjab Assembly passed a similar resolution;...
Just yesterday, International Women’s Day was celebrated; we got little late in getting the approval for publishing this report and preparing our article, but let’s catch the frame before we are too late. We had briefly reported about this study“Women and Mobile: A Global Opportunity”, jointly prepared by GSMA Development Fund, Cherie Blaire...
CEO USF Parvez Iftikhar inaugurated the first of 28 off-grid sites planned throughout the country, at a distant location - almost 7 hour drive from the main city of Karachi and at least an hour and a half from the nearest town – Umarkot, the site lies in the deep interiors of the Sindh province. At the occasion, Iftikhar appreciated Telenor...
Ufone has introduced this value added services, called UExaminer, targeted at students of 9th, 10th, 1st year. 2nd year and O/A level. Using this service, students can get themselves prepared for final board examinations. Uexaminer will allow students to go through online SMS MCQ’s/quiz/fill in the blanks based on text books and last 5 years board...
It is proven that a single un-registered or illegally obtained SIM can turn out to be real test for a subscriber and/or for the cellular company. We have mentioned before that all the procedures adopted by PTA, till date, for eliminating the illegal SIMs in the market, were not 100 percent successful. For instance, PTA asked Telecom companies to block...
