Sami Hinedi moves in as Acting CEO of Wi-Tribe Pakistan while ex-CEO Mohammad Sadiq is going to return to Qtel while being on the BoD of Wi-Tribe, said an official statement. Mohammad Sadiq, CEO of wi-tribe Pakistan, is set to return to his post at Qtel after successfully completing his term in launching the operations in Pakistan. The announcement...
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has planned for changing annual spectrum fee for radio based services. For the purpose, authority has asked the industry for input on the matter, before March 15th, 2009. PTA says that current spectrum charging methodology was defined back in 2000. It said that the situation has changed altogether due to increased...
State Bank of Pakistan has reported that net foreign investment fell by 34.4 per cent to $1.466 billion during July-January against $2.234 billion in the same period last year, reported the media. As per reports, State Bank said that this fall in FDI is observed in almost every domain, including telecom, financial, cement, oil and gas exploration and...
Rozee.pk is known as Pakistan’s number one Job website. There is no doubt that rozee.pk has grasped the biggest market share over the internet for spreading mouth of word for good jobs in the diversified industries like Information Technology, Telecom, FMCG’s, Pharmaceuticals and Insurance. Today let’s analyze the No.1 job portal to know some...
I am giving out a thought, that blogging community in this country is dominated by youngsters and college/university students. Be it be money earning blogs, or those filled with philosophies, reviews, news, information, documentaries on various topics ranging from politics to sports. Today, instead of writing something, I want you to share your thoughts,...
We know multiple software companies, especially in Islamabad that are considering Plan B for continuing their operations, after they sent their workforce on paid leaves. The situation was created when continued terrorism threatened the IT industry. Software companies preferred to send their employees on leaves instead of risking their valuable lives. Some...
Cellular companies strive hard to keep bringing the innovation in their services, sometimes through interesting and useful Value Added Services, with better pricing or sometimes with bundle offers. Through these ever changing tariffs and new promotions, these cellular companies aim at higher number of customers, higher usage of products and higher return...
The recent Federal Budget of Pakistan for the fiscal year 2009-2010 has imposed a set of new rules and fixes for the Pakistani Telecom Industry. Where it makes a flexible opportunity to increase usage of mobile services, it also imposes a threat to the consumption of telecom services. The regulators have applied a 20 Paisa Federal Excise Duty on outgoing...
Ultimus Pakistan, leader in adaptive Business Process Management, is winding up its business in Pakistan. They gave a notice last Wednesday to their employees about closing its operations in the country. Reliable sources have confirmed us that Next Monday (13th of April) is the last day in office. There is a rumor that the company might give away advance...
With Mobile Phones getting fancier, popular, and more expensive by each passing day; these devices are increasingly exposed to theft cases. These thieves are normally interested in your cell phone, and don’t show not interest over the data that is stored in your cellular phone. However, at times these thieves or ultimately the new buyer of your...
These days the hotspot word about our economy is “recession”. Every one is talking about it and in such times consumers think twice while spending and consuming, as a result, companies have to respond accordingly. Two areas where the highest impact is expected are sales and the cost of incurred in generating sales, in other words even more media...
In Pakistan, it’s been long time that we have not seen longer investments in the post-paid segment of Telco market of Pakistan. The main reason for ignoring Post-Pay market is ARPU and “instant payment as You Use” and list goes on… The future of Pakistani Telco market is vulnerable (for postpaid segment at least) and will not be opportunistic...
As per the PTA report 2007-2008, Telecommunication industry has employed human resources in hundreds for several fields like Engineering, Commercial, and Operations etc. In Pakistan, as the industry is very lucrative, the main career path can be Telecom Engineering, MBA (marketing), MBA (HR), or even any graduation degree for call center jobs. Like...
PTA has recently released the subscriber’s stats of mobile operators, which are somewhat similar to what we saw in recent months. Mobilink has lost its huge customer base with almost 1,575,587 subscribers in couple of months only and so far market dynamics predict that Mobilink will keep on loosing customer base in January as well. Without wasting...
We remember that Mobilink signed an agreement with Pakistan Post Office to introduce Mobile Money Order Service in Pakistan, back in last week of November 2008. The agreement was signed by Ahsan Basir Sheikh, Additional Director General (Financial Services) from Pakistan Post and Bilal Munir Sheikh, VP Marketing from Mobilink. Everything looked good,...
