Telecom News Bulletin

Pakistan IT Industry Shows Reverse as Compared to Global Trend

“Despite the encouraging global trend regarding growth in the IT Industry, Pakistani market is showing the reverse trend and not been able to exploit emerging opportunities”. Munawar Iqbal, the president of Pakistan Computer Association, said this while reacting to new report of IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker. The report shows that Global PC shipments rose 2.3% year on year in the third quarter of 2009 (3Q09), according to The increase is an important continuation of recovery from year-on-year declines of 6.8% in the first quarter and 2.4% in the second quarter of this year.

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Telecom Giants jump into action at first bell

Telenor, T-Mobile, Vodafone and Tele2 meet to discuss the future of Telecoms. The European Telecom industry is one of the most competitive in the world. This has been accredited to the affinity between network operators. With a turnover of approximately EURO 290 billion, the industry is constantly growing, but with growth comes new challenges. A recent challenge facing the industry is its high-profile loss against the EU, having roaming charges cut by up to 400%. The Telecom Industry is big business, and it continues to grow by stepping up and meeting such challenges head-on. As a result, last week, 50 visionaries from leading incumbents and Mobile Operators joined innovators such as Ericsson, Symantec, Volantis and Front Porch to look into ways of developing efficient processes to reduce costs and pass savings on to the consumer.

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Senator Talha to Make IT and Computer Industry Top Most Priority

Chairman Senate's Standing Committee on Interior Senator Talha Mehmood has said that Pakistan has immense potential in the field of computer industry and government ought to focus on this industry as one of its top priority. He said that we are blessed with talented professionals and our youth have great capacity to serve the country in the field of computer and IT industry. However, he added, the apathy of the government is ironic, which is keeping us far behind than the other nations of the region in this important arena. He expressed these views while speaking at the closing ceremony of three day extensive training of Open Source Operating Systems (OS O/S), which was held here by the Pakistan Computer Association (PCA) in collaboration with Pakistan Software Export Board.

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