Telecom News Bulletin

The government on Monday said Pakistan would resolve its issues with UAE telecom giant Etisalat soon and hoped that by March it would receive $800 million in arrears from the firm.
At a press conference here, the Minister for Privatisation, Waqar Ahmed Khan, said through value-addition the government would enhance the efficiency and competitiveness of state-owned [...]

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Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued Show Cause Notice to initiate proceedings against M/s PTCL on showing poor quality of service, based on the results of the joint Quality of Service (QoS) Survey conducted recently by PTA. PTA has given 30 days time to PTCL to submit the reply. Based on the outcome PTA, under [...]

China has closed what it claims to be the largest hacker training website in the country and arrested three of its members, domestic media reported on Monday.
The Black Hawk Safety Net website taught hacking techniques and provided malicious software downloads for its 12,000 members in exchange for a fee, the Wuhan Evening News newspaper reported [...]

Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani on Saturday appointed Sardar Muhammad Latif Khan Khosa as his Advisor on Information Technology. Latif Khosa has been given the status of a federal minister, says a Cabinet Division notification issued here.
Senator Khosa appeared before the acting Chief Justice Javaid Iqbal in a hearing over the handling of the [...]

Facebook is taking full control of display ads on the world’s No. 1 social networking website, cutting short an exclusive deal that had allowed Microsoft Corp to manage part of that business. However, Microsoft the exclusive provider of Web search on Facebook will continue to sell text-based search ads on the website as the partners [...]

RECENTLY THERE HAVE BEEN MISPLACED NEWS ITEMS IN CERTAIN SECTION OF THE PRESS THAT WARID TELECOM PAKISTAN MAY BE UP FOR SALE BECAUSE OF THE SHRINKING INTEREST OF THE SPONSORS RELATING TO THE MARKET CONDITIONS IN PAKISTAN.
WARID TELECOM PAKISTAN CATEGORICALLY AND UNEQUIVOCALLY DENIES SUCH REPORTS AND IMPRESSIONS. WARID TELECOM PAKISTAN IS NOT BEING SOLD OFF [...]

The Competition Commission of Pakistan has unearthed a unique international case of alleged cartelisation by telecommunication service providers of cellphones, entering into an agreement to revise selling price of SIMs along with missed calls charges, violating Competition Ordinance. The scam has been unearthed on a tip off of an informer under the informer reward scheme.
Sources [...]

Blogging by teenagers and young adults has dropped by half over the past three years as they turn instead to texting and social networking sites such as Facebook, a new study shows. The study released this week by the Pew Internet and American Life project also found that fewer than one in 10 teens were [...]

As always at Zong, we continue with our tradition of innovation, always endeavoring to exceed the expectations of our subscribers by fulfilling their mobile needs. Keeping this strategy in view we have gone one step ahead with our DialTunes service to enhance customer experience and strengthen our brand image. We are launching a GPRS enabled [...]

Mobilink, Pakistan’s market leader in cellular services and part of Orascom Telecom Holding has launched a new and innovative service allowing users to listen to select movies on their cell phones.
Jazz Audio Cinema, launched under the umbrella of Mobilink Jazz, Pakistan’s favorite prepaid cellular brand, is the first of its kind service allows users to [...]

Internet Protocol (IP) addresses are unique numeric identifiers that are required by every device looking to communicate over the Internet. Today, most of the Internet is addressed with IP version 4 (IPv4) but IPv4 address space is running out due to increase popularity of IP‐based applications.
The new version of Internet Protocol (IPv6) arrives not only [...]

Winners to represent Pakistan at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) 2010 in San Jose, USA
Following the Intel Provincial Science Fairs held recently across Sindh, ICT, Punjab and Baluchistan where young scientists presented innovative research-based projects in the categories of biology, chemistry, computer sciences, mathematics and physics, Intel Pakistan Corporation [...]

The telecommunications sector continued to show impressive growth in 2009 as teledensity climbed to 63.5 per cent, mainly led by the cellular industry.
According to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority’s data, the cellular industry continued to show subscriber growth in 2009, albeit slower than previous years, as users grew by 9 per cent to a record of 97.6 [...]

The Abu Dhabi Group, an investment company led by members of the Royal Family, is in talks with several Pakistani telecommunications groups to sell a controlling stake in Warid Telecom in a deal that would create the largest mobile phone operator in the country.
The company would not reveal the size of the stake or the [...]