Published on January 24th, 2007 | by Babar Bhatti
This is a snapshot of mobile industry’s growth in Pakistan in year 2006. By many measures 2006 was an amazing year for Pakistan’s mobile companies. The total subscribers reached 48.2 million, translating to mobile density of 31%. Two new [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 22nd, 2007 | by Babar Bhatti
Breaking news! Reported here that China Mobile has signed an agreement with Millicom to acquire Paktel (about 90% of it). This is really good news for customers and employees of Paktel as we have been discussing [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 22nd, 2007 | by Babar Bhatti
In my last post I mentioned how Nokia and Motorola are working to come up with cheapaer phones for the emerging markets. In a previous post I also wrote about the Emerging Market Handset programme by [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 21st, 2007 | by Babar Bhatti
This post takes a look at Nokia’s performance and future direction with regards to emerging markets such as Pakistan. According to a recent article in USA Today, Nokia and Motorola are actively working on bridging the [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 19th, 2007 | by Babar Bhatti
This post is a brief overview of the contact /call center industry in Pakistan. The contact center is an increasingly important part of today’s globalized economy. With outsourcing growing with full speed, more and more companies are relying [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 18th, 2007 | by Babar Bhatti
According to reports, Multinet Pakistan Ltd, a subsidiary of Telekom Malaysia, has signed capacity supply and service contracts worth 40 Million USD with Telenor Pakistan. Telekom Malaysiacontrols 78% stake in Multinet Pakistan, which is a broadband company (ISP). Multinet [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 16th, 2007 | by Babar Bhatti
The mobile companies in many regions of the world do not enjoy the subscriber growth witnessed today in Pakistan, India and China. Therefore they have to work on new strategies to spur the growth and increase the [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 12th, 2007 | by Babar Bhatti
As more and more confidential and sensitive data makes it way to mobile devices there is an increasing need to improve its security (e.g. lock the phone or remotely wipe its data if its stolen). The focus [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 11th, 2007 | by Babar Bhatti
The 2007 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) which is going on in Las Vegas this week is the biggest show in its category in the US. This year Apple has caused a lot of buzz with its iPhone (see [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 10th, 2007 | by Babar Bhatti
Search for “Cell Phone Snatching” in google and many of the results will be about mobile phone snatching in Pakistan. It is a problem all over the world – but with the explosive growth of mobile phone subscribers in [&hellip... Read More →
