This is a guest post by Imran Yousaf, who blogs at Blogging Junkie. This article is a cross post from Imran’s Blog. Imagine if you have good number of sponsors and high traffic for your blog, one day your loyal customers visit your website and find it inaccessible, what would they think of your site? You would lose huge traffic, business and...
Wi-Tribe has announced its network expansion plans for WiMAX broadband operations in Pakistan. For the purpose, company has awarded the services contract to Nokia Siemens Networks to provide a unique solution comprising of site delivery services and project management. “Our aim is simple – to make wireless broadband a way of life in Pakistan,”...
PTCL will introduce a banquet of services for customers, which are already launched for corporate users, called “Life Line”. This banquet will include security, entertainment, infotainment and DSL internet, told Naveed Saeed, SEVP Commercial, PTCL in an interview with The Nation. We are told that PTCL is offering IP based security Camera, IPTV,...
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has asked Wireless Local Loop licensees to roll out their networks in the allocated regions until March 20 in order to avoid cancellation of their licenses. Super dialogue and Metroltel was asked by PTA to deploy their infrastructure in the licensed regions on the new deadline after they failed to commence...
First time in history of WiMAX industry, Wateen’s RAN team has on-aired four sites without involving its vendor, Motorola. Reportedly, due to delay in delivery from vendor’s side, one of Wateen’s RAN team took the initiative and deployed 4 sites, which are as of now on-air and live in southern region. Lead by Tehseen Ahmed, Syed Yasir Uddin is...
Warid is a Dual Vendor network, the Dense-Urban /Urban areas are being covered by Ericsson whereas the Suburban/Rural areas are covered by Huawei. This intelligent distribution has ensured that Warid is a very cost efficient yet quality driven Network. Started from 28 cities today Warid offers its services in 496 cities that covers more than 12500Km...
Just over a couple of weeks ago the GSM encryption was broken, now the 3G encryption it seems is no longer secure. The transition to 3G networks and their more secure encryption algorithm was one of the ways some downplayed the importance of breaking the GSM encryption. The original algorithm intended for UMTS is called MISTY1, but was too computationally...
When we see PTA’s stats, it is evident that Ufone has failed to produce solid sales in recent months. Along with this down turn in sales, we see a decline in company’s morale that reflects through Ufone’s marketing trends, promotions, advertisements and its work force interactions. If we look at stats for 2008 and first half 2009 for Ufone, you...
There was a time, when you had to search for internal contacts in PTCL for getting a landline connection. There was a term called “Demand Note”, which was necessary to be paid at the time of application and then you were given with a landline facility in weeks, months or even years, depending on authority of your contact. If you remember, Fifty...
Cellular companies may resume Delivery Reports for SMS in near future; however, this time service won’t be free and may come with some charges. The details of charges are yet unknown – and customers may not like them, for a reason that they had been enjoying the service free of charge before. However, cellular companies see another potential...
Warid Telecom has achieved another milestone by hitting 6,250 destinations, expanding the services to 486 cities, covering more than 12,500Km road length throughout Pakistan. Warid says that the subscriber base has crossed over 18.58 million with a market share of 19.37% (As of PTA Oct-09) As per Warid it offers international roaming with over 229 live...
Ufone’s network remained down, throughout the country, for several hours. As per reports received from ProPakistani readers from Karachi, Lahore, Kohat, Rawalpindi, Islamabad, Gujrat, Faisalabad and several other cities, they were unable to make or receive any call. Outage started with slight issues at 4 PM, while signals went completely went down...
Mobilink is going ahead with 3G Swap in Pakistan these days. Currently its in Punjab Region. We have earlier disclosed this news to our readers regarding Telenor’s 3G Swap too. Mobilink used to be the target of the critics regarding up-gradation of the network and 3G approval. But Mobilink is giving them a blow with this roll out. And yes vendor...
We are getting news that Mobilink is Down in Islamabad/Rawalpindi, at least. We got this confirmation from multiple ProPakistani readers. Reportedly, most of Mobilink customers are not receiving signals, while when Mobilink numbers are dialed, system says that Your cell number is switched off. They are receiving “Invalid SIM”, “No...
Warid Telecom (Pvt.) Ltd. the country’s most reliable & fastest growing cellular company has achieved another landmark by expanding its quality network reach to 480 cities with over 6000 destinations across Pakistan. Warid has rolled out its quality network services to 480 cities. As a result Warid has been able to provide GSM services throughout...
