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We hope that you enjoyed the information presented on TelecomPk.net this year. Here are the top 20 posts from over 550 posts from 2009.
This is a quick recap of the year for Telecom industry in Pakistan. Here are some of the positive developments of 2009.
Despite all the progress made by telecom industry and the gradual lowering of rates, it is still not that cheap to pick up the phone and call Pakistan directly from your landline or cell phone from US. Part of it has to do with the high termination rates imposed by Pakistan. In a reent trend, phone companies in US have started to offer a single rate international calling where you can buy a bucket (say 300 minutes) for a flat fee and then call one of the many countries in that plan. Vonage is one of them but Pakistan is not included in their list.
After a tumultuous year, the Pakistan telecom industry is back on the road to recovery. Its good to see November 2009 show some healthy growth of about 800K new subscribers. Total cellular subscribers are 96.7 million (with ~285K for SCO and AJK). Here are the month-to-month gains with the most successful operator at the top:
Taimur Sikander has written an interesting article for Dawn about the long way that telecom has come in Pakistan and the impact of mobile phones and telecommunication on Pakistan society. I particularly like how he provides snapshots of the early days, and the way politics, arts and culture were shaped by telecom. It talks about Nazia Hassan’s hit song, ‘Telephone pyaar’ which was one of the first pop songs in Urdu about phones. Excerpts follow.
Telenor talkshawk comes with a unique kind of a offer. ‘Evening Offer’ is unique because this one is not a call price reduction offer but this offer gives 1 minute FREE after EVERY 2 minutes on ALL calls to ANY NETWORK made between 5pm to 12am.
After IM over SMS warid brings in SMS to PTCL V-Fone. Now all Warid customers can receive and send SMS to any V-PTCL number within Pakistan any day any time.
“My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.” This message of our great leader to the nation is as valid today as it was on October 24, 1947.
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PTA has recently published a long overdue paper outlining the key performance indicators (KPIs) for fixed broadband services in Pakistan. The objective of defining these indicators, per PTA paper, is to create transparent, quantifiable and measurable standard service parameters for broadband which the service provider is entailed to provide and the user has a right to expect.
We like to highlight all companies when they engage in corporate social responsibility activities which benefit common people. SOS Village is one of the major initiatives for children in Pakistan and we are glad to report that Samsung helped them out with computers and technology. Here’s the info, adapted from the press statement issued by Samsung.
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