State of Telecom Industry in Pakistan

Ezetop, an international group focused on international and online mobile phone top-up today. It provides services of top-up to any  phone back home for many countries, including Pakistan.

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Nokia has made a huge move in the mobile mapping and navigation area: it now offers free global navigation (for drivers and pedestrians) on Nokia smartphones. These free-of-charge navigation services are intended to boost Nokia’s service offerings and sell more phones. This is the same direction which Google was moving in with its free navigation software. The free turn-by-turn directions by Nokia mean that navigation device makers such as TomTom and Gramin will be impacted.

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Telenor has started online booking for BlackBerry Bold 9700. Delivery is expected in the first week of February 2010. You can also call 111-345-100, 345 or call 200 from Telenor Persona Number. Priced at Rs. 50K, this is one of the high end, stylish phone from RIM.  BlackBerry Bold 9700 would be a lot of fun with 3G rollout.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. a global leader in cutting-edge technology has signed with TeleTec Solutions Pakistan as its new official partner and has also unveiled its latest GenoA touch screen mobile phone for its customers.

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Music play a vital role in chillaxing human brain both in leisure or work and in youth its much more than that. Nokia’s recent study reveals that youth, the predominant majority of Pakistan’s total population, have expressed a high preference for music. According to it out of every 10 youth 8 prefers to have a Nokia music device. It also claims to take over the Sony Ericsson’s music device business share with its XpressMusic series.

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Ufone has been launching new services quite rapidly in the last few months, perhaps in response to all the subscribers it lost in the SIM recounts. Most recently Ufone launched Background Music through which subscribers can create a unique ambiance for every conversation they have. It would be interesting to see how this service plays up in comparison to a number of other music related services.

To subscribe SMS ‘SUB’ to 770 or dial 770 from Ufone. After subscribing and selecting the back ground music the subscribers will simply dial 77 before the recipients number e.g. 7703335199942 and can talk to their friends or loved ones with the song playing in the background of the conversation. A Back Ground Music call can be made to any number, any network in Pakistan.

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Growth of Pakistan telecom industry took a hit in recent months because of economy and regulation of SIMs. Even though the number of new subscribers slowed down and the revenues per user remained low, Pakistan telecom industry has shifted to a whole new set of services which provide value and convenience in ways not possible before.  One of the interesting trend of 2009 was the rush to offer financial services via mobile phones aka mobile financial services (MFS). These services include transactions such as remittances (person-to-person payments), payment of bills and others commerce enabled by mobile/cellular technology. This post provides an overview of MFS in Pakistan.

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Nokia has a loyal following in some of the largest mobile phone populations. With the recent pressure from competitors, Nokia has adopted a strategy of providing phones with improved connectivity and seamless applications for web, email, music, photos and maps which help with the daily lives of their users. Here’s a piece we received from Nokia about how its contributing to the big shift in how people connect with each others via phones.

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I came across this article from CNET on frequently asked questions about smartphone safety and thought that I’d share it with readers. Never a bad idea to remind ourself about safety of data and apps. Here’s the basic checklist:

1. Do you have data on your phone backed up in case you lose it?
2. Is there business or personal information (such as accounts or passwords in messages) which is easily accessible to someone who gets hold of your phone?
3. Are you aware of the applications installed on your phone: commerce related apps, social networking apps
4. Be careful about the usual phishing and other social-engineering scams – with so much browsing on the phone, it is more likely these days to follow a bad link and give away your password by mistake
5. Beware of sending sensitive info over unencrypted WiFi

Read the article after the break.

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The Teamtalk offer by Telenor Persona Karobar allows business customers to make free calls to their business circle. Persona Karobar has been one of the prominent business oriented packages and this new feature for an SME to make free calls to their business partners is an industry first in Pakistan. By carefully analyzing the usage and expense mobile phones and comparing that to Teamtalk offer, businesses can save significantly. By using Teamtalk, a small and medium business can:

• Make Free Calls to your Company Employees.
• Make Free Calls to your Business Partners.
• Send SMS / MMS at special rates to Company Employees as well as business partners.

For details visit Telenor web site.

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.

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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:

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