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KARACHI (July 31 2009): HP announced a new programme to support the increasing number of Sun customers looking to transition to a more cost-effective and stable server and storage platform on Thursday,says a press release. HP's Sun Complete Care programme combines one of the industry's broadest technology portfolios and the company's highly experienced team of professionals with a wide range of transition and modernisation services to...

he worldwide mobile phone market recorded another quarter of year-over-year decline in the second quarter of 2009 (2Q09).­ According to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, handset vendors shipped a total of 269.6 million units worldwide, down 10.8% from 302.2 million units in 2Q08. The second quarter results are an improvement from the 17.2% decrease seen during 1Q09, but ongoing challenges stemming from the economic crisis remain a factor to watch."The challenges from the previous nine months - aggressive...

"Motorola posts unexpected 2Q profit and says rest of year will see improvement"Motorola Inc. on Thursday posted an unexpected profit for the second quarter after several quarters of losses, and said it expected things to keep improving this year.The Schaumburg, Ill.-based electronics company earned $26 million, or 1 cent per share, in the three months ended July 4. That's up from $4 million, or break-even per share, a year ago. The...

The Deputy Chairman of the Authority Tariq Malik told APP that thecard would initially be issued to overseas Pakistanis and later itwould replace all CNICs. He said the purpose of the project is to facilitate the card holder,as the chip would have all the relevant data of the holder, while couldbe used for various purposes. He said the present CNIC have a 3-D bar which has not muchinformation of the holder rather it requires an on-line...

Do you remember that Mobilink used the same dialogue (back in August 2007) “In order to provide better services, we will charge your call center calls”, which was followed by everyone and Warid is Also doing the same thing with customer service calls.This time its Telenor, that is displaying following message on its website."In order to provide better services to our valued subscribers, each balance inquiry via *444# (Rupee Account Balance), *111# (Free SMS Balance) and *222# (Free Minutes Balance) strings will be charged 10...

Be A Millionaire – PTCL Broadband offers you the chance of a lifetime. Order PTCL Broadband between now and the 14th of August and win Rs. 1 Million and many exciting new laptops”All PTCL Broadband orders that are placed during the ‘Run up’ to the ‘independence day’, will have a chance of becoming one of the many lucky winners. This ‘independence day’ Broadband promotion is being launched with the following objectives:Key Highlights-One...

Telenor Pakistan faced an operating loss of $14.3 million in the first quarter of 2009, following a loss of $ US 49 million in 2008. Average revenue per user in Pakistan stood at just Rs. 252 ($ US 3) per subscriber per month in the first quarter, the lowest in all 13 countries in which Telenor operates, but the number of subscribers grew by nearly 20 percent year-on-year. A fresh air in the quarter 2, 09 where Telenor Pakistan has posted a growth in revenues by 8% and netting 908k subscribers compared to 597k in the previous...

There is a rumor circulating in the market that Wateen is looking forward to a potential buyer to get the company rolling. Reportedly, they had allocated huge budget for TVC in recent past, but they haven’t come up with anything in the market.It merits mentioning here that Wateen had used its last card by offering un-metered downloads for some of its packages, which gave them the opportunity to get maximum numbers of customers. But even this promotion was not advertised heavily on TV.We are told that they are also incorporating...

PTCL is looking for various options to offer Video conferencing and GNOP, said Mr. Walid Irshad, President and CEO of PTCL during an interview with Sabah uddin Qazi for Huawei’s Win-Win Magazine.PTCL may go with Huawei to use IPTV platform to create home to home video conference, revealed President P...

Indian Home Ministry is apparently set ready to give security clearance to Telenor Group for hiking its stakes in Unitech Wireless up to 74 percent, but that comes with a condition that none of the staff who have worked in Telenor Pakistan will be employed in India.NEW DELHI: The home ministry is set to give security clearance to Norwegian telecom firm Telenor to hike its shareholding in Unitech Wireless, byup to 74%, on the condition that none of the staff who have worked in Telenor Pakistan —100% owned by the Telenor group...

Wednesday, July 29, 2009 By Jawwad Rizvi LAHORE: A leading telecommunication company, which launched DSL (digital subscriber line)and IPTV (cable TV) services with a bang, has failed to provide these services to customers in most areas of Lahore.The failure is the result of the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd’s outdated network and lack of modern technology, it is learnt.When contacted, a PTCL spokesman said there were exchange...

ISLAMABAD: Universal Service Fund (USF) signed contracts for providing basic telecom services in Nasirabad withCM Pak and Broadband Services in Multan Telecom Region with World Call. CEO CM Pak, Qian Li and CEO World Call, Babar Ali Syed signed these contracts with CEO Universal Service Fund, Parvez Iftikhar. Secretary IT, Naguibullah Malik witnessed the signing ceremony as the chief guest. staff rep...

ISLAMABAD (July 29 2009): National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has signed contract with cellphone companies, including Mobilink, Telenor Pakistan and Warid Tel, for verification of the computerised national identity cards (CNICs) through SMS.Nadra has initiated the facility under which people can attain the verification of CNIC through SMS. Subscribers will have the facility to verify the CNIC by sending SMS at 7000....

Microsoft and Yahoo! today unveiled a 10-year deal to create an online search and advertising partnership in an effort to challenge Google, the world’s biggest internet search engine. Under the agreement, Yahoo! use Microsoft’s new Bing search engine on its own sites, while Yahoo! will act as the exclusive global sales force for the companies’ premium search advertisers. Yahoo! will get to keep 88 per cent of the revenue from all search...

Mobinil, Telecom Egypt and Vodafone Egypt have submitted their respective bids to acquire Link Egypt, Broadband unit of Orascom Telecom. According to OT’ CEO, Khaled Bichara, two other unnamed firms have submitted bids before the deadline, which may include Etisalat, as perceived by analysts.Orascom had announced in February 2009 to sell out 100 percent stakes of Link Egypt, in order to focus on primary Telecom business.Earlier reports had clued that Link Dot Net Pakistan will be part of this sale out; however, strategic merger...

If you ever wondered about the forward text messages you receive daily, who actually develops/generate them? If you think these forward messages are created by someone like you, but in a distant part of country, then there are very little chances. Reason I am saying this is the amount of text messages that keep on appearing on regular basis. I believe this job is not possible by individuals and that too just for fun. If cellular companies generate such forward messages? Here are good chances, and reasons are, Cellular companies...

United Bank Limited (UBL) has successfully completed the implementation of Oracle Applications, which includes Oracle E-Business Suite Human Resource Management System, Oracle Payroll and Oracle General Ledger, in a record time of 9 months.Oracle Certified Advantage Partner IBM Global Business Services completed the implementation that provides automated HR management , payroll and financial processing capabilities. All of this will enable UBL to increase business efficiency and operating performance through an enhancement and...

ProfiMail is a powerful e-mail client for mobile devices, supporting multiple mail accounts, HTML and attachments. Through your mobile Internet connection.Simple. What you get: MainProfiMail screen, displaying multiple accounts, and two systemmailboxes.Next to each mailbox are icons summarizing its contents. Mailreader with HTML text support, comfortable attachment browser, and easynavigation. Built-in image viewer, for comfortable viewing...

Universal Service Fund signed contracts for providing basic telecom services in Nasirabad (Balochistan) with CM Pak and Broadband Services in Multan Telecom Region (Southern Punjab) with World Call. CEO CM Pak, Mr. Qian Li and CEO World Call, Babar Ali Syed signed these contracts with CEO Universal Service Fund, Parvez Iftikhar. Secretary IT, Mr. Naguibullah Malik witnessed the signing ceremony as the chief guest. In the Rural Telecom project, CMPak will be paid Rs. 1.57 Billion to provide telephony services to 648 unserved...

KARACHI: HP on Friday announced a new brand of affordable notebook PCs that merge business functionality with sophisticated design to stand out from the crowd. The HP ProBook series joins the award-winning HP EliteBook series to form one of the most versatile business notebook portfolios in the industry.Inspired by minimalism, the design of the new HP ProBook series combines matte and glossy surfaces, while stripping out the extraneous,...

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has initiated "Meet the Star" campaign in Pakistan. The nation-wide s15-day activity, also running in Middle East and other parts of Asia,aims at bringing Samsung Star Touch Phone, a full touch-screen mobile phone, to consumers and educating them along with providing a feel of the gadget.During the activity, consumers will also get a chance to the gadget Samsung Star phone through a lucky draw. The Samsung...

Information for Persons with Disabilities in Pakistan is very limited. The CR department at Telenor Pakistan, along with its partners STEP, LABARD, NOWPDP, Ministry of Social Welfare & Special Education, has tried to include information in a must download guide about services from all across Pakistan that can be very useful to PWDs.It is based on lengthy discussions with disability experts and focus group discussions with persons with disabilities at Telenor Pakistan’s own premises. And although this guide is not a complete...

Universal Service Fund signed contracts for providing basic telecom services in Nasirabad (Balochistan) with CM Pak and Broadband Services in Multan Telecom Region (Southern Punjab) with World Call. CEO CM Pak, Mr. Qian Li and CEO World Call, Babar Ali Syed signed these contracts with CEO Universal Service Fund, Parvez Iftikhar. Secretary IT, Mr. Naguibullah Malik witnessed the signing ceremony as the chief guest.In the Rural Telecom project, CMPak will be paid Rs. 1.57 Billion to provide telephony services to 648 unserved Mauzas...

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority is trying its best to equip the nation with the modern technologies and state of the art communication system. Here is the official press release issued by the PTA to to provide Free SMS Based alerts to 60 educational institutesISLAMABAD—Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) would provide Free web-based SMS Alert System to around 60 educational institutes across country.This SMS alert system will be used by schools to communicate with their students/staff. The PTA selected total of 60...

Vfone Pakistan has revised its prepaid packages. Now there are only three packages to choose from compared to the five earlier. The new packages are named as Vfone Simple, Vfone Family and Vfone unlimited. The old packages ‘Bachat’, ‘Kafayat’ & ‘Sahulat’ packages are being merged into a single package; “Vfone Family” with a new daily line rent of Rs.5/day. The Vfone Simple package does not charge any daily line rent. The package details...

Medical researchers have unveiled a new gadget that could be used bydoctors in the developing world to diagnose diseases such astuberculosis and malaria. The device, which attaches to a mobilephone, allows physicians to create a portable microscope that can beused to examine blood samples in the field and help spot some of theworld’s deadliest diseases. The CellScope project focuses on the development of a modular,high-magnification microscope...

Islamabad—Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Friday launched Redressal of Consumer Grievances Mechanism which would ensure proper resolution to the problems being faced by the telecom sector consumers. Addressing a press conference here at PTA headquarters, Chairman PTA Dr. Mohammed Yaseen unveiled the details of the package, saying that the consumers would have a complaint with the respective telecom operator and if the issue is...

China Mobile is reportedly in talks with Norway’s Telenor concerning an acquisition of their Pakistani mobile network. Both companies are denying such development, yet sources told the local Dawn newspaper that negotiations were being held secretly at the group level. According to some statistics, the combined customer base of China Mobile (NYSE: CHL)’s and Telenor’s Pakistani operations is around 26 million, representing a 28% of the market....

ISLAMABAD (July 27 2009): Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Dr Mohammed Yaseen Sunday claimed that Pakistani cellular phone companies were providing cheapest call rates across the globe. "In a recent conference in India, the Indians claimed that they were providing cheapest calls world over.However, I confronted and made calculations to prove that Pakistan was the country providing the most inexpensive phone facility...

According to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the country’s mobile operators added 6.322 million subscribers on their network in 2008-09. As per latest statistics released by the telecom regulator, the total mobile subscriber base across the nation reached 94.342 million on the network of five operators. Accordingly, the subscribers’ base widened by 7.1% with teledensity touching 58.20.Telenor ruled the market as it added the...

KARACHI (July 26 2009): The ninth ITCN Asia 2009 will be held here at Karachi Expo Centre from August 11 to 13. This was announced by the Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB) on Saturday. The event would be organised by the PSEB, Ministry of Information Technology in collaboration with the Ecommerce Gateway Pakistan. This has been described as one of the Asia's biggest international information technology and telecom shows.It was further pointed out that ITCN Asia was designed to be a one-stop meeting place for trade matching...

Offer: Get 200 free minutes and 200 free SMS.Qualifying Customers:Customers who have not done any activity since 1 June 2009 will be able to avail this campaignTo check if you are part of the campaign: Call IVR 2222 or send an SMS containing “FREE” to 2222Call IVR 2222. (charges are Rs. 1 + tax per min) or Send an SMS containing “FREE” to short code 2222 to avail the 200 free minutes and 200 free SMSs. (charges are Rs. 1 + tax) the 200...

ISLAMABAD (July 25 2009): Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) Chairman Dr Muhammad Yaseen said on Friday that the PTA had been making efforts to further improve the consumer protection. He said those consumers' satisfaction and protection was first priority of the PTA. Addressing a press conference, the PTA Chairman said Pakistan's telecom sector had seen phenomenal growth during the past decade.He was of the view that phenomenal progress...

KARACHI (July 25 2009): Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, a mobile phone manufacturer had announced the launching of the S9110, a cutting-edge watchphone featuring a full touch screen. The watchphone-basically a wrist-watch comprised of all the features of a cellular phone and Samsung had once again proved its prowess in the market.-PRThis measurement of this awesome gadget is a mere 11.98 millimeters (0.48 inches) in thickness. The new watch...

OSLO: Norwegian telecommunications group Telenor on Thursday reported a 61 per cent slump in second-quarter profit, due to sliding revenues and losses in its stake in Russian mobile operator VimpelCom.Net profit tumbled to 1.38 billion kroner ($220 million) during the quarter, a sharp decline from 3.54 billion kroner in the same period last year.Second-quarter revenues held steady, slipping slightly to 26.9 billion kroner this year from...

ISLAMABAD (July 23 2009): Telenor Pakistan would formally launch its special programme for helping disabled persons at a local hotel today (Thursday). The programme, Telenor Khuddar Pakistan, has been shaped for the disabled persons as the company's corporate responsibility flagship initiative. Some 7-10 percent Pakistanis have disabilities and most of them face adversity at every corner.They fight negative social perceptions and are turned...

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Thursday, July 23, 2009 By Mehtab Haider ISLAMABAD: Telenor Pakistan Chief Executive Officer Jon Eddy Abdullah has said there are possibilities of mergers in the cellular industry in future. In an interview with The News, Abdullah said Pakistan had the lowest call rates in the world and a continuous reduction in charges, as seen in the past, to attract customers was no more viable for the future as the industry had already hit rock bottom....