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LG KP220 Available in Pakistan for Rs. 6,999 2008-06-22 09:08:59 KP 220 is a new phone running on TV these days from LG; basically aiming at mid ranged users who can’t compromise with the music capabilities of devices they hold.
Look and Feel
Priced at Rs. 6,999, LG KP 220 comes with a plastic body, a metallic keypad and a shiny display. Phone looks stylish; however the [...] Read more:Pakistan
Voice SMS from PTCL to Cellular numbers with Kehdou Voice SMS 2008-06-21 20:30:37 Text Messages (SMS
) from cellular number to cellular number is nothing new in Pakistan, however, how if you are able to send SMS from a land line (PTCL) number to any cellular number across Pakistan, and that too a voice SMS? Cool na?
Right! PTCL says it has started this “Kehdo Voice
SMS” service that will [...]
Is Mobilink Losing its Grip Over Customers? 2008-06-20 13:48:40 We have recently seen a major reshuffle on points table for cellular companies, where Telenor has overtaken the Ufone and grabbing the second slot on the top charts.
Source: TelecomPk.net
With emergence of Zong (a brand of CMPak) in Pakistan, all cellular companies are fully charged up to retain their positions. Babar Bhatti has summed up the [...]
Hourly Internet Package on Mobile Phone by ZONG 2008-06-20 01:06:31 We have seen a real fight amongst cellular companies in Pakistan, specifically after the emergence of Zong (CMPak), with so many new packages and innovations that are actually benefiting the end users.
Zong, as expected has started doing the wonders, first they introduced unlimited GPRS in only PKR 400 per month, and now this hourly offer [...] Read more:Internet
, Mobile
Indians Purchase 10,000 Phones per Hour; WOW 2008-06-19 21:07:37 Cellular-News, quoting IDC India, has reported that Indian Handset market has seen 29 percent year-on-year growth, as total of almost 85 million phones were shipped into India from April 2007 to April 2008 in comparison with 66 Million handsets in same period previous year. In only first quarter, Indians
shipped 22 million mobile phone units [...] Read more:Purchase
, Phones
Japan’s DoCoMo to hit Pakistan? 2008-06-19 20:44:07 Possibly yes, don’t get amazed, as Japan
’s NTT DoCoMo
Inc., is looking for overseas investment once again. DoCoMo is not going to come directly into scene in Pakistan
, but possibly through Etisalat controlled Ufone , as they announced some serious partnership talks with Middle East’s telecom carriers including Etisalat, Qatar Telecom and Saudi Telecom, reported [...]
Broadband Internet in Pakistan compared to India and Bangladesh 2008-06-19 06:38:37 We have seen much boom in internet broadband market in Pakistan
; situation is much better than the recent years. Now we can have 1 MB link in less than Rs. 2,000 which was as high as Rs. 60,000 just couple of years ago; thanks to LinkDotNet and PTCL.
However, we are still required to compete hard [...] Read more:Internet
, India
, Bangladesh
8.3 Million Downloads in First 24 Hours for FireFox 3 2008-06-18 22:50:49 We saw that the download counter was turning real slow in the start, which didn’t rolled 5/6 downloads per second, however, the latter on in the day the counter was well geared sending more than 1000 downloads per second (personal observation)
Official release says that Firefox 3 browser was downloaded 8.3 million times thus Mozilla beat [...] Read more:Downloads
, First
, Hours
Six New TV Channel Licenses issued by PEMRA 2008-06-18 21:11:48 Khaleej Times has reported that Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has issued six new TV channel licenses to be operated in Pakistan, which includes Geo English as well.
Those new channels includes
Geo English
Business Plus,
Wikkid Plus,
ARY Shopping Channel
,
Aruj TV
Asset Plus channels
Paper reports that the decision for issuance of new TV channel licenses was carried out in Read more:Licenses
Geo TV Shifting Its Setup From Dubai To Pakistan 2008-06-18 20:43:53 Geo News is airing repetitive message that the TV Channel is going to shift broadcasting its transmission from Dubai
to Pakistan
. We don’t know much about what actually is going around. Updates are expected soon; however, there is nothing being on-aired on TV except this message.
Earlier on, Geo Television had said that Pakistan President Pervez [...] Read more:Shifting
Buying iPhone in Pakistan 2008-07-06 16:41:36 We know that 3G iPhone
(or iPhone 2) is going to hit its lovers from July 11th, 2008, along side people in Pakistan
are anxiously waiting for unlocked 3G iPhone to get into their hands. But still there are countless folks around, in Pakistan, who have not met iPhone in person; however, they must be [...] Read more:Buying
Getting Involved in Coding Game - Google Code Jam 2008-07-06 13:35:05 Through NetExpress, we have learned about this development competition, organized by Google
in which any one can participate and earn fame, name and money too.
Primarily, Google Code Jam is a coding competition for those who enjoy solving critical and challenging coding problems, specifically for those youngsters who have got the craze and passion for development. [...] Read more:Involved
, Coding
Bangladesh to Offer WiMAX Licenses 2008-07-06 13:14:58 Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has announced that they have reached at point where they are ready to issue Broadband Wireless Access licenses in the country. Initial draft that has guidelines for the upcoming bidding and for WiMAX
license details says that two nation wide licenses will be given away in 2.3Ghz band and one in [...] Read more:Bangladesh
, Offer
, Licenses
MVNO Yet to Appear in Pakistan 2008-07-05 16:06:54 Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has failed to come up with any frame work for Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO). According to Mobile Cellular Policy, PTA was due to prepare a detailed guideline and procedures for MVNO before January 28, 2006.
For those who are not familiar with MVNO, let me define this phenomena for you. A mobile [...] Read more:Pakistan
Mobilink’s Coverage AD - Uncensored 2008-07-04 06:31:17 You guys must had seen Mobilink’s Latest Coverage
AD…good, but i have got something very interesting to share…check out this video : - )
Mobilink Coverage Reaches 75533000 cities, even in Hell 2008-07-03 11:20:57 WccfTech got a very interesitng thing to discuss. Now there is a segment on Mobilink’s official wevsite, that serves regarding the information about Mobilink’s coverage in Pakistan or abroad.
There is a box where you are asked to put the city name and afterwords Mobilink’s intelligent web server matches the city name with the available cities [...] Read more:Coverage
MoITT Seeking Feedback from Private Sector for Revamping IT Policy 2008-07-03 08:57:17 Few days back, Mr. Adnan Saeed, Project Manager, MoITT sent an email to a public forum, in which he put forward a message that read like below
Government of Pakistan has initiated a broad based consultative process to formulate National IT Policy
for the next five years. In order to make a realistic and practical policy [...] Read more:Seeking
, Feedback
, Private
Cellular Companies, Please Please…show some Mercy; Don’t Loot Innocent Pakistanis 2008-07-03 01:52:00 Mobilink, last month, kicked off the war with Jazz one, Telenor responded with A One; however both were defeated by Ufone’s Uwon. And now Zong feeling the heat and joining the club with 8 Anay per Call offer.
Two things are seen common amongst all cellular companies; they are attacking each other…and at the same time [...] Read more:Companies
, Please
, Innocent
Pakistan’s First AD Network Launched 2008-07-02 16:10:02 If you are running a blog or a website that caters to Pakistan
i audience, like mine, then you must be missing lots of potential revenues despite you are using ADSENSE, AdBright, eTology or any of other available ad networks.
The main reason for very low CTR (Click Through Rate, the rate at which ads are being [...] Read more:First
, Launched
Huawei to Deploy Mobilink’s WiMAX in 6 Cities 2008-07-02 06:16:10 Chinese Company Huawei says that it has been selected by Mobilink, Pakistan’s largest GSM operator, to deploy a commercial WiMAX
16e network. Huawei will cover central Pakistan and hot spots in the country’s six major cities, including Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Sialkot, Faisalabad and Rawalpindi.
Under the terms of the contract, Huawei will provide Mobilink with a [...] Read more:Deploy
, Cities
Pasha’s Career Expo 2008-07-20 17:15:54 PASHA managed to fetch 20 IT companies in PASHA’s Career
Expo today (July 20, 2008), in an effort to bridge the gap between fresh graduates and IT industry.
Through the platform, IT companies from across the country mainly focused on job offerings to students and at the same time representatives marketed their respective companies, products, markets [...]
Self Care Portal Launched to track Usage and Billing Details for Wateen WiMAX 2008-07-20 16:40:24 At last wateen has come up with an online usage and bill tracking system that will help customers to keep an eye on their bandwidth usage and remaining balance in their account. Wateen’s WiMAX
(prepaid) users had been facing their service disconnections when they used to reach their allowed quota.
To Access Wateen’s Self CarePortal
[...] Read more:Launched
, Usage
, Billing
Find out your Friend’s Loaction With Warid Zem 2008-07-20 06:47:12 Thanks to Abdussamad who pointed out this another Location Based Service by Waird, that will enable you to find the real time location of your fiend, family, kids and so on…!
How to find a friend’s Location through SMS?
To Locate a Friend via SMS:
User-A sends an SMS by writing FIND<space><NUMBER> e.g “Find<space><032XXXXXXXX>” and sends it to [...]
Pwnage Tool 2.0 Unveiled to Unlock and Jailbreak iPhone 3G 2008-07-20 06:21:13 One of the most awaited hacking tools for iPhone
3G has been finally brought forward by iPhone Dev Team that is named as Pwnage Tool 2.0
iPhone 3G is going to get unlocked around the globe with this Pwnage Tool, allowing iPhone lovers to unlock it and install application that they want (but are not provided [...]
Warid Going to Launch its Daily Newspaper 2008-07-20 01:28:03 Following Lakson and World Call Group, Warid Telecom is going to start an English DailyNewspaper
to support its business entities in Pakistan. A source familiar with the situation confirmed that parent group of Warid Telecom was planning for their existence in Pakistani Media for a long.
Source told that initially Dhabi Group had TV channel [...] Read more:Going
, Launch
Find locations with Warid’s Location Based Services 2008-07-19 22:56:02 Warid can now help you find various places of interest while you are on move. All you need is to send an SMS and you will get a response from Warid displaying you a list of restaurants, Banks, ATMs, Mosques or hotels near you.
Warid Location
Based services are very affordable in terms of pricing, user [...] Read more:locations
, Services
Mobilink Sponsors Zeb & Hanya’s Debut Album “Chup” 2008-07-19 20:11:35 Mobilink has aided Zeb and Hanya to launch their debut Rock/Pop Album
, named as “Chup”. Album was launched in a Press Confrence on July 19, 2008.
To read more about Zeb & Hanya visit their official website Website
Download Top Tracks of “Chup” (Right Click and Select “Save Target As”)
Chup Download
Chal Diye Download
Paimana Download
For “Chu” Ringtone Read more:Sponsors
Unlimited Calls From Pakistan to US & Canada or one of other 34 Countries 2008-07-19 19:28:07 Wow another offer to snatch as you see it. Okay if you have got your family, friends or business in US, Canada
, Australia, China, France, United Kingdom etc (or in any other of 34 countries listed below) then this offer is service is going to rock…!
This Unlimited calling is not going to be an ordinary [...] Read more:Pakistan
, Countries
GPRS & MMS Setting For Telenor – Step by Step Tutorial 2008-07-18 23:29:17 Today we are going to learn how to activate GPRS, WAP and MMS on Telenor. The process for activating GPRS and MMS on Telenor is very much similar to as what we did for Ufone and Zong, very simple and straight forward. So lets start with activation of GPRS and MMS by sending an SMS
Activation [...] Read more:Setting
, Tutorial
Pakistani Boys and Girls At Night! 2008-07-18 22:56:43 Guest Post by Nayni
Pakistani
politics revolves around three personalities Musharraf , Asif Zardari and Nawaz Sharif. Likewise business in Pakistan revolves around Cellular companies, print media and electronic media. 50 % space on newspaper is occupied by ads from different cellular companies and after every five minutes you are to watch ads of same cellular [...] Read more:Girls
, Night
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