There are around or above 90 data centralization projects in the queue at NADRA, which will ultimately enable all the data of several dozen departments linked with your CNIC number, told us high level sources at NADRA. Orientation of projects is yet to be made public; however, NADRA is planning big to make all the data of the country to be linked with...
Websites in Pakistan are doubling up, no doubt about it. More websites mean more opportunity for hosting companies. But when I look around, at my friends, friends of friends I don’t see them trusting much on local hosting companies. As a matter of fact, ProPakistani would love to do business with a local company, for instance our servers are locally...
We know that PTA has issued its annual report for Telecom industry for year 2008-09, in December 2009. There is lot that we can drive from following graphs, for instance, in graph one – we can evaluate the exact standing of revenues of cellular companies. Graph two shows the market share, in terms of revenues. And graph 3 tells us how mobile phone...
Webmasters please don’t sell our emails – this is a rising plea of internet users of Pakistan, as the subscribers base is increasing; marketers sense this as an opportunity to better sell their products – and email marketing is leading channel of them. Just recently we discussed that companies’ don’t care for the safety of personal...
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has introduced an online facility for overseas Pakistanis in order to get their SIMs data regularized or to block the extra SIMs/connections issued against their Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC). This automated facility has been made available on the websites of PTA and all cellular mobile operators. Since...
Telecom industry is responsible for huge amount of Imports, especially in area of Mobile Phone sets, accessories along with Telecom Equipment. These imports are burden on national economy, however, we can’t avoid them as they are responsible for many other benefits that get from Telecom sector. Government of Pakistan tried to cut down at least mobile...
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), in order to facilitate mobile users, has removed the condition of providing CNIC copy by the consumers seeking correction in their SIM data. According to the PTA, presently, extensive monitoring of the SIM Information System — 668 is being carried out after its successful deployment throughout the country. In...
Since the launch of “SIM Information System – 668”, more than 1.8 million (18 lacs) mobile subscribers have sought their SIM(s) data while 10% of them have visited Customer Services Centers (CSC) of mobile operators for the correction of their data. For the convenience of mobile phone subscribers of smaller cities and far-flung areas, PTA has...
PTA has officially introduced 668-SIM Information System, with what customers can check number of SIMs registered against any CNIC by sending CNIC number to 668. However, it is strictly advised to visit service centers of all cellular companies to know exact amount of SIMs registered against your CNIC. This is due to unavailability of updated data and...
Intelex Technologies Inc. has announced that they have been chosen by Telenor Pakistan to provide them with a web-based software solution designed to address all aspects of an effective telecommunications quality management program including document control, non-conformance and corrective-action tracking, and audits management, etc. When they began...
We covered earlier about rise in SMS usage in Pakistan due to multiple factors, major of which was SMS bundles offered by all cellular companies, and now as per a story published by PC World said in a report that Pakistan generated 763 million text messages during 2008/09 and stood fourth for SMS traffic in Asia Pacific. PC World said that in total...
Telenor Pakistan and Nokia Siemens has entered into an agreement, under which Telenor Pakistan will get Nokia Siemens’ NetAct Traffica real time customer traffic monitoring and analysis software. Telenor Pakistan has acquired the GPRS module of the solution for enhancing the data service experience for its customers. The Nokia Siemens Networks...
Mobilink in collaboration with Singapore based TenCube has brought this service called “Mobilink Call Secure”, which was initially developed for Singapore Police and Military use. Mobilink CellSecure is Mobile phone security software that allows you track down the thief, get alerted when your mobile phone is stolen!. Remotely lock your phone or...
There was a news in print media yesterday, that Police has been allowed to directly access cellular user’s information; this includes our incoming and outgoing call details and information regarding SMS that we send and receive. I am not sure if Police can also access the content of calls (voice tapes), as it was not explicitly mentioned in any of...
Many times in my life I found myself in a situation when my DVD writer stopped reading a very important CD or DVD. I am sure all of you may have seen such a irritating situation when you find no other way but to curse your CD or DVD. Okay don’t do that anymore, because there is a solution called Copy Cat 2.0. Yes, this is an application that can recover...
