As we can observe that everyone around us is busy doing text messages. Due to the bulk of free SMS packages and their low rates offered by the Cellular companies, it is now in the access of every layman to send and receive text messages. (more…)

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is holding a seminar with the alliance of HUAWEI on 2nd August, 2010 in Karachi to inculcate the stakeholders on importance of 3G mobile phone technology. The seminar would stress on various aspects of 3G Mobile Broadband services and 3G spectrum auctions in Pakistan. (more…)

We have witnessed internet users in Muslim world adopting different strategies in reaction to “Draw Mohammad” (Sallallahu Alayhi Wa-aal-hi-Wasallam). Millions of Muslims are protesting against the intents of a community on Facebook that is planning to conduct a contest for Prophet Mohammad’s Drawings.

What will happen on Draw Day?

On the 20th, people will post pictures on Blogger, LiveJournal, wordpress.com, vox.com, TypePad, Flickr, Picasa, imgur, yfrog, twitpic, and of course, on their own blogs and in videos on Youtube and elsewhere. But again, Facebook is the root cause.

Why Draw Day is Worst than Previous Blasphemous Acts?

This instance of blasphemy is not like what it had happened before in Sweden and Norway. We know that there are websites that spreads blasphemous content across the web.

But, in this instance, Web Giant Facebook is part of the game, and while Facebook has roots to each corner of the world, you can calculate the scale of blasphemy on May 20th, 2010. (more…)

PTCL is the largest Telecom Services Provider in Pakistan and always strive to create value for its valued customers. Keeping this objective in mind, PTCL has introduced another interesting and handy service branded as PTCL Conference Call (3 Party Call) service. (more…)

To increase the sale of EVO devices PTCL is offering a sales discount type offer. If you are and existing Evo user you can easily get this offer, Just refer EVO to your 5 friends and get 25% discount in your monthly charges for 5 months.   (more…)

The teledensity of wireless telephony services has registered a slight increase of 0.1 percent in the country after a period of six months. It reached to 1.7 percent by end of November 2009, latest statistic of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) showed on Friday. The overall Wireless Local Loop (WLL) connections increased to 2.72 million across the country on the network of eight operators by November. (more…)

Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has formulated two sets of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) to improve and monitor the Quality of Service (QoS) of “Fixed Broadband” and “GPRS/EDGE” networks. (more…)

On the occasion of 27th International Telecom Management Information Platform (TEMIP) User Group Conference held at Hamburg, Germany PTCL Network Operations Centre (NOC) team has been honored with ‘Special International Recognition Award’ on displaying exemplary expertise acquisition for extensive utilization/ customization of product features in an exceptionally short time span. (more…)

This is a quick recap of the year for Telecom industry in Pakistan. Here are some of the positive developments of 2009: (more…)

The growth in the mobile sector of Pakistan has been more then 100 percent on average in the past seven years. The economy of the country has benefited greatly from this sector and there is still potential for more growth. In 2009 Telecom sector has made enormous progress especially in the last 2 quarters of the year. In November 2009 the increment of new mobile subscriber has been reported about 800K which makes the total of 96.7 million cellular subscribers in 2009. (more…)