­Cell phone ownership among children has increased 68% in the past five years, according to MRI’s recently-released American Kids Study. Twenty percent of U.S. children ages 6-11 currently own a cell phone, up from 11.9% of children in 2005. The most dramatic increase has been among 10-11 year olds (+80.5%). (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…)

Mobilink announces special prices for selected countries, which are as low as Rs. 1.36 per minute against a weekly subscription charge of Rs. 10 per country. Meaning that if you subscribe for one country, then you can call Rs. 1.36 per minute to that specific country for one week. (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…)

Telenor Pakistan and PBCC are hoping to facilitate the blind with personal benefits such as fitness, stress relief, resilience, discipline, team work and leadership opportunities through the program.

The ‘Khuddar Pakistan Blind Cricket Talent Hunt’ began on 5th October 2009 spreading over two phases of selection that covered all parts of the country. A total of 16 schools for the visually impaired from 11 cities participated in the talent hunt. At the end of the selection process, a training camp was set up by PBCC in Islamabad , during which the selected forty four students were trained by the National Team Coach, Nafees Ahmed as well as other national level physical trainers. (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…)