Telenor now in 286 places
Telenor Pakistan has officially opened its GSM mobile network for commercial service in 34 more destinations within a month of its last expansion on Pakistan Day.More
Mobilink extends services
Mobilink, one of the leading cellular service companies of the country and part of the Orascom Telecom group, is continuing to aggressively expand on its coverage with its network services now available in over 750 cities, towns, villages and countless destinations across the country. More
Telecom moot on impact of low average revenue held
Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari, federal minister for IT and Telecom, while addressing the inaugural session at the Nokia’s Conference, appreciated Nokia’s initiative and advocated that he was strong supporter of public private partnership as both had a lot to offer to growth of the telecom industry.
Pakistani IT experts can learn a lot from S Korea
South Korea has a lot of potential in information technology and Pakistani IT experts can learn a lot from their Korean counterparts and win the global market in a big way.
Mr J Jang, head of a five-member South Korean delegation, expressed these views during his visit to the Lahore Chamber of Commerce & Industry on Saturday. LCCI President Mian Shafqat Ali and Vice President Aftab Ahmad Vohra also spoke on the occasion. More
Pakistan PC/server market approaches half-million mark
Aided by growing IT awareness in the country and increased focus from multinational IT vendors, Pakistan PC shipments grew 16.6% annually in 2005 to reach just under half-million mark with 494,000 unit shipments. More
BTTB declining low-cost expansion offer
Bangladesh is set to miss a rare opportunity of nearly doubling its revenue by participating in a very low-cost expansion of the international submarine cable it is now being connected with, highly placed sources said.
The country has already failed to reap any benefit of being connected to the information superhighway by having the first-ever submarine cable from October last as it could not to set up the domestic interface for this system as per schedule. The system is likely to be launched this month. More
Pak army to recruit women in other sections besides Medical
Pakistan Army has decided to recruit women in its other departments besides Medical section.
This was told by Director General Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Maj Gen Shaukat Sultan to a group of media men on Friday.
He noted that women recruitment process would start at the end of current month.More
Pak gov plans 500-600 MW wind power by 2007
Underlining the vital link between energy security and growth momentum, Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz has said that government is looking for power generation from diverse sources including renewable energy and it is planning to produce 500 to 600 MW wind power by 2007.
PTCL regrets interruption in telecom system of network.
The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has regretted the interruption in telecom system which is expected during the expansion program Phase-I of PTCL “V” phone network.
The spokesman of Islamabad Telecom Region stated in a press release that for providing better, telecom facilities and services to the valued V-phones expansion plan Phase-I customers, will be carried out in Islamabad Telecom Region Wireless Local Loop (WLL) Phone set up.
During this process of phase and expansion programme 2000 valued customers of PTCL “V” phone of Islamabad Telecom Region may face an interruption for only 30 minutes from 0100 hours on the night between Saturday (today) and Sunday.
PTCL adds that this interruption may be occurred in 2000 “V” phone numbers, starting from 051-2550000 to 051-2551999. Islamabad Telecom Region regrets inconvenience caused to its valued customers.