He was addressing the participants of a broadband road show launching ceremony here at a local hotel. The excellence of the modern broadband experience amazed the visitors who had gathered at the launch of 2011 broadband forum of Huawei technologies. Dr Yaseen inaugurated the road show while vice president of Huawei, Middle East region, Leo Xu, and other officials were also present. Different products of Huawei, including 4G modules, 3G mobile phones, 4G tablets, iphones, ipods, smart phones, and small body laptops were on display with Huawei technicians briefing the visitors on various aspects of their products.

On the occasion, the Huawei officials gave presentation to the visitors on the company’s latest modules, fitted in a state-of-the-art van, a part of the road show. Addressing the audience, Dr Yaseen asked the stakeholders to come up with their input to the PTA for devising the national broadband plan.

“Broadband is now a basic need of every citizen a universal service and not a value-added service. The factor deriving this change is personal experience. There is a lot of talk about 3G and 4G (LT) technologies but only those understand the excellence of these modern technologies who experience it on their electronic gadgets. I am amazed to be here at the show and the presentations were excellent,” said Dr Yaseen while addressing the audience at Huawei seminar.

“Though 10 million smart phones are connected to the internet in Pakistan today, but imagine the huge revolution if all these smart phones are connect top 3G broadband,” he added.

Calling for an immediate jump into the 3G spectrum, Dr Yaseen said Pakistani IT industry was ripe for 3G spectrum in year 2006 but due to resistance by stakeholders, this revolution was delayed. “Today, we are adding around 2.5 million subscriptions every month. But I am not satisfied. If we have to get 10 million subscriptions every month, we need to jump into 3G broadband experience,” he added.

On the occasion, Leo Xu announced that Huawei would be embarking on a one-year road show across the region to demonstrate its capabilities in providing advanced end-to-end solutions for mobile and fixed broadband services. The road show opened for a week, as a dedicated team of Huawei executives, experts and technical support staff come together to host an unforgettable broadband experience to key stakeholders and partners in the country.

Broadband is widely regarded as a key indicator of national competitiveness and economic development. According to estimates, a 10 per cent increase in broadband penetration translates into 1.3 per cent GDP growth. With an ongoing commitment to enriching people’s life and enhancing broadband development, Huawei has invested considerable resources and works closely with its partners to bring the most cost-effective, cutting-edge products and solutions to people in Pakistan. The live on-site demonstrations will enable customers to experience new Huawei innovations for wireless including HSPA+, LTE FDD&TDD, Wimax and SingleRAN technologies. As the number of mobile broadband users in particular continues to climb in the country, Huawei believes that subscribers will increasingly look for low tariffs with unlimited high-speed access while operators will require network capabilities that allow them to accommodate the expansion pressures of mobile broadband.

During the road show, Huawei presented case studies of how it’s Single Backbone, SingleFAN & Single Metro solutions can be optimized to address the needs of operators across the region as traffic is increasingly dominated by services such as IPTV, HDTV and teleconferencing.

“Huawei’s Single Strategy approach can help operators improve the capability of service integration, value-chain controlling and profitability. As we work together with our partners to monitor and maintain these networks, we look forward to sharing the benefits of these new technologies with consumers hungry for higher broadband speeds and more relevant value-added services,” added Leo.

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Initially this case was presented in front of the District and Session Judges in Islamabad. The case was then referred to the Additional Session Judge, Mr Kamran Basharat Mufti, by the judicial officer for more proceedings which are scheduled to be held on July 19.

A local telecommunication company submitted a complaint of this incident and an FIR was registered, under section 36,37 of Electronic Transaction Ordinance 2002, against 11 members of a gang for making fake mobile phone scratch cards.

On 16^th may 2008, a local telecom company lodged a protest with the FIA Director General Islamabad that due to the leakage of some important information  some unkown persons have manufactured a large sum of fake scratch cards which are almost 17,750,000 in number. out of that 905,987 cards were sold in the local market which caused a total loss of 134.4 million to the company. For further proceedings this issue was referred to the FIA crime department which would submit its report on June 14^th 2008.

According to the information provided by the FIA, initially the case was given in the hands of Sub Inspector Farooq Latif who recommended for lodging an FIR against the alleged criminals.

During the inquiry that Usman Zafar who was a resident of sector G-11/3 Islamabad along with another man named Syed Nabi was found accused of making fake mobile scratch cards. Later it was also learnt that Usman Zafar was the ring leader of the group which made these cards illegally and it was proved by the allegations against Syed Nabi that he somehow sold fake scratch cards worth Rs 9 million. Both the accused criminals were not present in the inquiry proceedings which left no other option for the inquiry officer but to register a case against the accused. But Usman Zafar being aware of the danger had taken the precautionary measures and had left the country when police raided on his house soon after the inquiry. After almost 2 years on his return to Pakistan he was arrested, on October 22 2010. His physical remand was obtained by the police from the competent court from 23-11-2010 to 03-12-1010.

The investigating team had also given chance to the complainant throughout the investigation to provide sensible clues against the accused. Moreover, the other 10 members of the gang were also revealed as advancements took place in the investigation. Apat from the accused Usman Zafar, the other 10 members were Ghalib Virk, Zahid Sindhu, Haji Ramzan, Rizwan Ali, Asif Ch, Younas Khan, Jamal Raza, Kazim Shehzad, Rashid Ahmed and Syed Nabi.

As the story un covered, apart from making illegal scratch cards, the printing press where these scratch cards were made was also running illegally by the accused, where the scratch cards were developed. A raid was conducted there and it was learnt that the accused along with his other fellows printed scratch cards of different telecommunication companies which are providing service in Pakistan.

The sources from FIA informed that during the raid a printing press machine and scratch cards more than 50 million were found and taken into custody. FIA confirmed that all the gang members are not yet arrested and the agency is trying its best to trace and arrest them. Meanwhile Syed Nabi did not attend the investigations so the was declared absconder by the court.

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The discovery of the embezzlement was discovered in November 2010 after discrepancy in the accounts was found.According to sources the suspects were not arrested immediately as Mobilink was hoping to use the threat of police action as a bargaining chip to force the return of the embezzled funds.

According to police the accused have not been arrested yet as they were not present at the address given on their NIC. They also said that Mobilink was not trying to influence the investigation in any way.

“We are looking for them and hope to nab them in a day or two,“ said the police official.

Usman Qayyum, Yasir Ali, Nadeem Afzal, Pervaiz Akhtar, Ali Nawaz and Muhammad Jamshed are the top and middle management MOBILINK employees that have been accused of fraud in three different cases. Of the accused, Usman Qayyum and Yasir Ali were based in the head office of the company where as three lower management officials were based in Mobilink’s franchises in F-11, I-8 and Blue Area.

According to investigator money had been transferred to the accounts of accused employee’s friends and family. However most of the accounts having a bulk of money had not been traced yet.

On contacting Mr. Omer Manzur, Head of Mobilink’s PR and CSR for comment. He said that he could not comment on any developments in the case because it was a legal issue but he did not deny the news as well.

It has also been reported by ProPakistani that now major changes will be made in the company’s finance department. It has been hinted that someone from Ufone might take the job.

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Embezzlement of more than Rs210 million by top and middle management officials in the finance department of a cellular services giant was reported to police on Friday.

The discrepancy in the accounts that led to the discovery of the embezzlement was discovered in November 2010, but the management reportedly hesitated in getting the police involved as it was hoping to use the threat of police action as a bargaining chip to force the embezzlers into returning the money.

The management of the telecom company hesitated over actually letting the suspects get arrested as they were hoping to use the threat of police action as a bargaining chip to force the return of the embezzled funds, sources said.

The police official investigating the case said that they were trying to obtain the exact details of the suspects’ whereabouts. He added that they could not be found at the addresses given on their National Identity Cards.

“We are looking for them and hope to nab them in a day or two,“ said the police official. Responding to a question, he said that the company’s management was not influencing the case in any way.

Other sources in the police told The Express Tribune that they believed the management was playing carrot and stick with the suspects, by pressurizing the police to have them arrested while simultaneously offering the alleged embezzlers a compromise if they agree to return the embezzled money.

Six officials from top, middle and lower management of the finance department, Usman Qayyum, Yasir Ali, Nadeem Afzal, Pervaiz Akhtar, Ali Nawaz and Muhammad Jamshed, were nominated in three different fraud cases.

Police said three lower management officials were based in franchises of the company in F-11, I-8 and Blue Area, while Qayyum and Ali were based in the head office of the company, where they were responsible for crediting money into company’s funds.

An investigation officer added that they were told by the company that the amount of embezzled money and the number of suspects might go up as they had decided to carry out a comprehensive internal inquiry.

The complainant, a senior manager in the company, told the police that the embezzlement was first discovered after an audit in November, 2010. Following the detection of fraud, Chartered Accountant Akhtar Aziz was hired to perform a thorough audit of funds.

The auditor’s investigations revealed that the suspects had been transferring huge sums of money into their personal accounts and those of their friends and family while crediting them in the company’s records. “Yasir and Qayyum received money from the franchises and other accounts and made transfers into their personal accounts, said a police official.

Police said the bulk of the embezzled amount was kept by the suspects in accounts which have not yet been identified, but the matter is “being looked into by the company’s internal auditors.

An official spokesperson for the company initially refused to comment on the issue, citing its status as a legal matter. Later he added, “FIRs were registered and obviously the police are doing their work to arrest the suspects.

Via Express Tribune

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Omar Manzur, Director Public Relations and CSR for Mobilink says; “Our aim is to ensure that these new homes will prove to be a secure and comfortable residence for the deserving families. The structural designs of these homes follow the guidelines of ‘Provincial Disaster Management Authority’ and the beneficiaries were selected on the basis of vulnerability after conducting a thorough field study under the supervision of the local DCOs. Giving back to the community is a core value at Mobilink, with a commitment to continue making concerted efforts to provide relief to the underprivileged”.

Each home is built keeping in view the flooding problem in the area. Strong Concrete pillars and one foot high reinforced plinth give the homes extra strength. Each home has one bedroom, one restroom, and a kitchen. Mobilink Volunteers also distributed gifts among children and listened to problems of the people in the community. Mobilink is also completing houses in Khyber PakhtunKhwa and Sindh too this year.

The company has been working for earth quake and flood relief affected people for quite some time now. It also made health-units for distribution of food, clean water and medical assistance. Mobilink Foundation tries its best to help people and work for their development.

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According to sources all provinces and the federal government have agreed to introduce this single rate to remove prove problems in tax collection. Punjab ,KPK and Baluchistan had originally proposed a 16% sales tax on telecom services. These provinces will now have to amend their ordinances to apply the new uniform rate.

FBR has decided to impose the same tax rules during july 2011 that had been followed previously and apply the new rate with affect from august 2011.

Following the legal procedure first the FED has to be withdrawn on VAT mode by FBR on services and then Sindh can delegate powers to FBR for collection of sales of sales tax on collection services by issuing a notification. Sindh government claims that there are many services which involve input tax adjustments. Sindh sales tax on services act 2011 impowers the sindh revenue board to collect sales taxes on all but five services that would be covered by FBR.

This law had to be initially implemented last year but was delayed due to several reasons. Now the FBR and Sindh Revenue Board will do accounting procedure for determination of the input tax adjustment. The taxpayers should be given their right for claiming input tax adjustment.

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After Mobilink and Ufone, Telenor also come up with the admin fee of 1.5%. Actually it seems to be a strategy of all mobile phone companies and they collectively implemented these so called charges for improvement of their services.

Statement written on Telenor Website:

“Dear subscriber, from 4th July, an Admin Fee of 1.5% will be levied on usage for all prepaid connections (talkshawk & djuice).”

Now Warid and Zong are left behind and hopefully they will also implement the charges soon. Till now Telenor implemented highest charges that are 1.5%, Ufone stands at second number with 1.1% and at third number there is Mobilink with their operational charges of 1%.

It is the time to call up competition commission of Pakistan one has to complaint and raise this issue within authorities so that the trend of charges will come to an end. If this trend prevails then in future more such charges can be impose on the consumers. Till now there is no response from CCP but soon we are expecting some statement from them.

It should be noted that these extra charges are excluding the 5% service charges. Why Pakistani government and organizations can’t see common people happy. We don’t have anything that can make people cheer. In the future we can assume that if we recharge Rs.100 card we will get Rs.50 after deduction of taxes and charges.

This post is not for criticizing telecom operators but it is just to raise voice against the upcoming issue of extra charges that will directly affect telecom consumers of Pakistan and may be our rating in the international world may fall down.

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Now Ufone and Mobilink will deduct 1.1% maintenance charges from 1st July 2011 on every recharge. The users of Ufone and Mobilink may have received the message on their cell phone number regarding these maintenance charges. Now everything we done on mobile phone are having charges. For example if you want to check your balance you will be charged certain amount. If you recharge your card; again some amount will be deducted from your recharged balance.

Message appears on Ufone’s website:

“Dear Customer, To further exceed your expectations, a maintenance charge of 1.1% will be applicable on every recharge from 1st July 2011 along with government taxes.”

Total taxes and charges collected at the time of recharge are as follows:

• Withholding Tax: 10 %
• GST/FED: 19.5 %
• Service Charges: 5 %
• Maintenance Charges: 1.1 %

The taxes from government are enough so we don’t need more charges from the cellular operators. Pakistan telecommunication authority should take notice of these upcoming charges. In future if this situation prevails maybe we can be charged on receiving or making a miss call. Mobilink and Ufone both are having large number of subscribers so they should take care of their consumers.

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Current number of cellular sites in the country has reached 30,417 from 2000 in just 6 years. The number of cellular subscribers has seen a massive growth and in 6 years 95 million subscribers have been added making a total of 100 million subscribers in 2010. Improving the cost and quality of voice has been the priority of cellular operators but now there is a shifting trend towards exploiting data and value added services. According to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) government intends to announce 3G licensing policy soon which will further improve and add innovative options to the data services in Pakistan.

Latest statistics indicate that there has been an increase of 4.8 billion subscribers from June 2010 to January 2011 making the total subscribers 104 million.

Despite a dip in the revenues of 2 telecom giants in the quarter of September 2010 due to huge losses, cellular revenue stand at Rs 126.5 billion in July-December 2010. It should also be mentioned that 30,126 sell sites have been erected by June 2010 as compared to 30,169 at the end of December 2010.

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This youthful collaborative venture with Illusions will be commemorated with a Jazba launch on all four Illusions outlets in Islamabad city from June 16th to 25th. During this time, Jazz Jazba customers can take part in a contest which will provide them an opportunity to win on the spot prizes.

There will also be an ongoing summer contest in all Illusions stores, through which Jazz Jazba customers can enter to visit Illusions gift vouchers worth Rs 5,000 each. This promotional campaign will continue till August 30th.
All Mobilink Jazz Jazba customers can also avail 10% discount on all items available at all four Illusions outlets in Islamabad. This 10% discount exclusively for Mobilink customers will be available year-round on display of a valid Mobilink SIM.

Addresses of Illusions Locations in Islamabad are:

1. ILLUSIONS SUPER MARKET ISLAMABAD.
2. ILLUSIONS JINNAH SUPER ISLAMABAD
3. ILLUSIONS F-10 MARKAZ ISLAMABAD.
4. ILLUSIONS F-11 MARKAZ ISLAMABAD.

[Source: TechPakora.com]

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