Published on September 26th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
As the competition among the mobile providers heats up in Pakistan, they are coming up with new packages to attract and retain customers. Mobilink has introduced an interesting package called “Ladies First” to attract the female market segment. Currently Mobilink [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 22nd, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
Is Skype a good option for making calls worldwide? Skype – the immensely popular Internet phone product – has 50 million users worldwide though I don’t have an idea of its users base in Pakistan. It uses a proprietary technology which leverages every user’s PC resources to route [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 20th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
With the recent broadband deregulation, many new technologies and companies have started providing broadband services in Pakistan. The pricing, availability and service quality varies by geographic location. The results of annual Internet Service Provider Quality of [&hellip... Read More →
Published on September 18th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
These days its hard to read the news without finding a new mega deal between a Pakistan telecom provider and foreign company be it a handset maker, equipment maker or another service provider. The reasons for such [&hellip... Read More →
Published on August 29th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
With the falling calling costs all over the world it was just a matter of time that Pakistan Telcom changed its complicated and expensive rate structure. Finally this month PTCL decided to reduce rates for local, [&hellip... Read More →
Published on August 18th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
According to recent news the Pakistan government has decided to setup a system to curb mobile phone snatching. Perhaps too many VIPs lost their phones! Anyway this is certainly a good initiative. It has been modelled [&hellip... Read More →
Published on August 8th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
With the growing proliferation of technical gagdets the pains of security are being felt by more and more users – it used to be your PC which was often fell victim to hackers or viruses. The [&hellip... Read More →
Published on July 24th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
According to recently released numbers on the teledensity (a term commonly used to describe the number of telephone lines per 100 people) the growth in Pakistan telecom sector shows no sign of slowing down. According to [&hellip... Read More →
Published on July 17th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
Bloomberg has an interesting article about one of the mutual funds in Pakistan. In the July 13 2006 story “Abamco’s Ali Uses Cricket Strategy to Outperform Pakistan Index” the fund manager Najam Ali discusses his approach [&hellip... Read More →
Published on July 12th, 2006 | by Babar Bhatti
If you are interested in making calls to Pakistan for a nominal cost it is worth knowing about Internet Telephony or VOIP, its availability in Pakistan and the controversies surrounding it. As far as disruptive technologies go VOIP [&hellip... Read More →
