Published on December 19th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
Information and communication technologies (ICT) play an important role of lifeline in disaster management life cycle. The recent disasters in Asia and USA have highlighted the need for interoperable standards and technologies, and better planning and coordination to [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 18th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
The Indian telecom market is again the topic of a political discussion about security and foreign telecommunication and technology firms. Recently the Chinese telecom equipment firms ZTE and Huawei were the issue but now Orascom has joined the [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 13th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
This is my second post on Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in Pakistan. After the first post on portability a number of readers asked about the status of MNP in Pakistan. According to recent news MNP is likely to [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 11th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
Paktel has been in the news recently. Its European parent company Millicom has decided to exit Pakistan and the fate of its assets and employees is unclear. This presents a test case for PTA – can it [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 7th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
This is a followup to my previous posts about bandwidth rate cuts. In the latest development Lahore High Court has granted PTCL stay against the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority’s decision to reduce bandwidth prices after the Etisalat-run [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 5th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
Are the developing countries and organizations such as ITU, WSIS making real progress against digital divide? A new measure called Digital Opportunity Index may provide an objective way to answer this question. Following the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) summits (Geneva [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 4th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
I could not resist sharing this amusing futuristic work of imagination from WIRED magazine. If you use headsets with blue tooth technology, this one is surely for you. At the pace of technology and gadget development we may have embedded [&hellip... Read More →
Published on December 3rd, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
As this post is being written, ITU is hosting TELECOM WORLD 2006 Asia in Hong Kong. It is one of the leading events of the telecom world, “bringing the world’s leading ICT companies, decision-makers, organisations and [&hellip... Read More →
Published on November 28th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
Consider some statistics about Pakistan’s mobile handset market. During 2005-06 the total value of handsets imported in the country crossed US$1 billion The mobile handset market is projected to grow by 25 percent annually About 800,000 handsets are [&hellip... Read More →
Published on November 26th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
Next door to Pakistan is the world’s largest telecommunication market: China. In part 2 of telecom growth in Pakistan’s neighbors I present an overview of the Chinese telecom industry. This post will cover the major service providers and top telecom [&hellip... Read More →
