Published on January 8th, 2007 | by Babar Bhatti
In 2006 Wateen-Motorola WiMAX project in Pakistan created a lot of buzz all over the world. Many similar trials and services are being offered around the World. However it is still a big unknown if Wimax will be [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 5th, 2007 | by Babar Bhatti
According to this news item Pakistani mobile companies are going after the WLL operators – yet again. Since deregulation of telecom started in Pakistan the GSM based mobile companies and CDMA based WLL operators have been [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 3rd, 2007 | by Babar Bhatti
It is always fun to talk about feature-packed gadgets. As 2007 starts lets take a look at the future of mobile phones. A recent BusinessWeek report presents some interesting views about mobile technology and its drivers. Also [&hellip... Read More →
Published on January 2nd, 2007 | by Babar Bhatti
I see some interesting developments for free or cheap calls to and from Pakistan using Voice over Internet Protocol – i.e. Internet Telephony. This is in parallel to new services (Rebetel and FreeCallPlanet for instance) in US and Europe which [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 29th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
The earthquake of this week damaged the telecom and internet infrastructure, impacting many Asian countries. Banking services were severely hampered Wednesday but services had resumed Thursday after networks were reconfigured to detour around the broken cables. [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 26th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
As the price of smart phones falls the popularity of email on mobile phones is on the rise. This is especially useful for business folks who need access to their email on the road. However the security [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 26th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
This is from a recent WIRED magazine gadget test issue. It shows the source of the different metals used in making of a mobile handset but I liked how it illustrates the components (screen, circuit board, [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 22nd, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
Triple play made its way to Pakistan. Triple Play service is a marketing term for the 3 services: high-speed Internet, Video (TV, Video on Demand) and telephone service – all over a single broadband connection. Wateen, PTCL and Nayatel are [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 21st, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
As we wait for Pakistan to implement mobile number portability, let us take a look at the status of another recent MNP implementation – in Japan. As expected there were issues after MNP – but the nature of the issues [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 20th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
A front-page article in the Wall Street Journal (12/18) reports that some of the world’s biggest telecom companies are racing to tap China and other rapidly growing Asian markets by building faster pipelines for the surging [&hellip... Read More →
