Published on November 18th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
From time to time I’ll write about telecom action in other emerging economies especially in Asia. The first in this series is an overview of mobile telecom market in India. In last few years the Indian [&hellip... Read More →
Published on November 17th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
It is hard not to notice the mobile phone advertising campaigns in Pakistan. The mobile phone and services advertisements are in the media, on billboards and everywhere else imaginable. The competition among the mobile phone companies is driving this trend of intense [&hellip... Read More →
Published on November 14th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
Continuing the series of posts on Pakistan’s mobile companies, this one will present a snapshot of Norway based Telenor ASA. Telenor has international operations in the areas of mobile telephony and satellite operations in more than 12 countries. [&hellip... Read More →
Published on November 12th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
Recent news about decline in profit of PTCL has concerned many investors and shareholders. Will Ufone, mobile phone arm of PTCL, be able to fight back and reverse this trend? In this post I present a snapshot [&hellip... Read More →
Published on November 10th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
Business Monitor International (BMI) has ranked Pakistan as a key destination for telecom growth. The BMI ranking study states that as a result of foreign investments, growth potential and good deregulation policies by PTA, the telecom industry [&hellip... Read More →
Published on November 7th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
Here is all you wanted to know about Orascom, parent of Mobilink (official name: Pakistan Mobile Communications Ltd or PMCL) , in a nutshell. This snapshot will give you some insights into Mobilink’s parent group and is [&hellip... Read More →
Published on November 3rd, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
Pakistan’s telecommunication market is one of the hottest in the emerging economies. This post will briefly review the mobile phone players in Pakistan and discuss how to evaluate and invest in these companies. In future posts I’ll review the major [&hellip... Read More →
Published on October 27th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
The purpose of this post is to present a simple explanation about CDMA for ordinary consumers. The post will touch upon CDMA flavors (CDMA2000, W-CDMA), explain 3G technologies for mobile phones, and CDMA-based fixed or mobile [&hellip... Read More →
Published on October 24th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
Number portability allows consumers to switch phone providers and still keep their phone number. It started with local number portability and even that took a long time in many developed countries and it was not a [&hellip... Read More →
Published on October 16th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
This is good news. INTEL Corporation has teamed up with Wateen Telecom and IT ministry of Pakistan to establish six tele-centres to provide low-cost connectivity for voice and data, ICT training and basic tele-medicine. This is [&hellip... Read More →
