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Chinese telecom corporation team meets Zardari
By our correspondent
ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari Saturday called for setting up a Telecom University, a Telecom Research and Development Centre and a plant to manufacture and assemble mobile handsets in the country.
Spokesperson to the President former Senator Farhatullah Babar said that the call was made when a delegation of Chinese Telecom conglomerate ZTE called on the president at the Presidency.
The five-member delegation that called on the president was led by Luo Pingfan, Dy Chairman ZTE and also included Ambassador of China Luo Zhaohui.
The president said that the government would provide land for the Telecom varsity in Haripur where the nucleus of telecom training facilities already existed and also offered facilities for establishing an R&D Centre in Islamabad and the mobile handsets manufacturing plant.
He said that the president appreciated the ZTE’s role in the development of Pakistan’s Telecommunication sector and said that Chinese companies had made significant contributions to Pakistan’s economy through direct investment.
The president called upon ZTE to develop technical skills of the local labour force. He said that Chinese investment and cooperation could help develop Pakistan as regional hub for manufacturing for which low cost labour force was available in Pakistan.
He also called upon the ZTE to develop a research and development centre in telecommunication and a plant for manufacture of mobile handsets in Pakistan.
He said that he was keenly awaiting his visit to China later this month to further consolidate the relations between the two countries which he said was “an important factor for peace and stability in the region and the world”.
The president underscored the importance of closer collaboration and coordination between Pakistan and China in view of complexities of regional and global situation.
He said that Pakistan would continue to support China on all issues of national importance to it.
The Chinese delegation thanked President Zardari and the government of Pakistan for providing it necessary back up and support to carry out its investment plan in Pakistan.
Secretary General to President Salman Faruqi, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Water Resources Kamal Majidullah, Ambassador at Large Khalil Ahmad and senior official of the foreign office also attended the meeting.
Etisalat has not paid three installments to Government of Pakistan against PTCL’s 26 percent shares, due to its differences with Government, told us sources familiar with the issue.
In connection to this scenario, National Assembly Standing Committee on Information Technology & Telecommunications held an emergency meeting today to discuss the situation.
Sources have reported that committee expressed its reservations over privatization deal, while Etisalat’s performance of managing PTCL was also discussed, which was found unsatisfactory. It was discussed in the meeting that Etisalat has not paid three installments while its fourth installment is due on September 12th, 2009.
We have reported earlier that unpaid installments’ value is US 799 million dollars.
The News reports that sitting was held at the Parliament House while it was chaired by Ch Mohammad Berjees Tahir. He was briefed by Director General, Ministry of Privatization on the privatization of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited by the Privatization Commission, keeping in view the process adopted for PTCL privatization; payment schedule agreed between both the parties; objectives achieved by PTCL privatization and payment made by Etisalat to the government so far.
Standing committee was of the view that Government should have safe guarded the down payment of Etisalat, when it was not paying its first installment after the bid.
Committee expressed that PTCL’s privatization was done to promote telecom industry, then how come the government agreed for not issuing any telecom license for next 7 years after the purchase deal – which is actually halting the progress of industry.
Dispute of property handover was also discussed, which is the core issue between Etisalat and Government of Pakistan. It was told that Government has handed over about 3000 properties to Etisalat, in favor of PTCL while remaining 200-300 properties are owned by Sindh and Punjab provinces. Both provincial administration are asking for the market value of properties instead of book value, which is collectively as high as 20 billion rupees (as per our sources’ estimates).
Standing Committee suggested that owing to the poor performance of PTCL, the purchaser of the company may not be facilitated in any kind by the government.
All customers applying for a PTCL Broadband connection with in the month of Ramazan between 23rd August and till last day of Ramazan will get as a Ramazan offer one month’s (30 days from the days from the archival date) free Broadband from the day Broadband is installed and archived in their premises irrespective of the month.
Note: All customers applying for a PTCL Broadband connection with in the month of Ramazan August-September 2009 between 1st of Ramazan till the last day of Ramazan will get one month’s (30 days from the day installed) free Broadband from the day Broadband is installed in their premises irrespective of the month
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High speed internet, lower operational charges, quick connectivity, less disconnections and greater download speeds have made a flood of DSL connections in Pakistan.
KARACHI: The Internet users have reached nearly four million in the country amid slight growth witnessed in the base of Direct Subscriber Line (DSL) by the end of March 2009, said Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA).
The latest stats released by PTA shows that there is a 2% increase in the DSL users from January to March 2009 compared to last year. The overall number of DSL users is 272,626 across the country with the dial-up connections of 3.7 million.
The analysts expect a growth in the broadband sector through DSL and Wimax services because of their advanced technology. The lower prices of the broadband connections will also help in increasing the number of DSL subscribers.
Focusing on commercial sector, operators are offering broadband services through multiple technologies such as Digital Subscriber Line (DSL), Cable, Fiber To The Home (FTTH), Hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) and Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (Wimax). DSL holds the lion share of 59 percent in the overall broadband users market with Wimax the second having 20 percent, PTA report says.
It is expected, from the rapid growth of broadband operators in the country that the users of broadband will jump to 5 million in next couple of years. However, a state of competition is also started between the broadband operators because of the emergence of many broadband operators in the Pakistani market.
Ufone UTrack Service was launched by Ufone just two days ago on August 25, 2009. At ITIOMIT, we decided to perform a test on Ufone UTrack Service. The test was performed using both Prepay and Postpay SIMs but the result was same. Ufone UTrack service didn’t work at all!
According to the Ufone defined procedure, we sent SMS to 2002:-
The SMS was responded by Ufone as
Your location is temporarily unavailable. Please try later. UTrack
The proof of this response is shown by the iPhone screenshot below:-
Ufone should check why the service isn’t working fine. I am not saying the service failed completely. It just sometimes work and sometimes not. But keep in mind, you will be charged even if the service is not working fine and you are just receiving a useless service failure message from Ufone. At least Telecom companies should develop the sense of not charging the customer if they are not delivering promised services.
In Pakistan, so much talk is going on print media, electronic media and internet about the 3rd Generation technology abbreviated as 3G. Only Telenor cellular network has begun the process of upgrading its network to include 3G technologies but PTA is still not giving license to Telenor to start its 3G services which is acting as a major hurdle in the development of 3G infrastructure.
Investment reports by Telenor and PTA behavior:
In 2008, Telenor officials reported that it was likely to invest $2.5 billion more in the country if it gets a 3G license. Jon Fredrik Baksaas, also the president of Telenor Group said:
We have invested almost $1.8 billion out of our commitment of $2 billion by the end-2007 and would go for a further $2.5 billion depending on the situation if we get a 3G license.
Telenor has given this project under the supervision of a third-party operator who is busy in analysis and deployment these days. These details clearly show that Telenor is waiting eagerly to be awarded as the first 3G license of Pakistan.
PTA on the other hand is continually encouraging Telenor to keep developing 3G infrastructure although there is still no confirm news that whether they are really going to issue 3G license to Telenor in 2010, news which holds a status of just “unconfirmed statement” as yet.
3G Technology details:
3G (third generation) is a collection of international standards and technologies defined by International Telecommunication Union. These technologies include EV-DO, GSM, EDGE, UMTS/HSPA, and CDMA2000 as well as DECT and WiMAX. 3G increases efficiency by improving the performance of mobile wireless network
With Third Generation (3G), the information is split into separate but related “packets” before being transmitted and reassembled at the receiving end. With the start of 3G there are packets everywhere in the world of communication.
3G extraordinary features:
1) Data rate:-
International telecommunication union has not clearly defined the data rates a user can expect from 3G but it is expected that it will provide minimum speed of 2 Mbit/s and maximum of 14.4 Mbit/s for stationary users, 348 kbit/s in a slow moving vehicle and 144Kbit/s in a high-speed moving environment
2) Personal use:-
A) You can do online shopping as you will be able to view and select still images of merchandise. On choosing one item you can buy that and can pay through your electronic wallet (Digital Catalog Shopping).
B) Mobile Banking
C) Video Mail
D) Digital Information Delivery (Audio and Video)
3) Enhanced Home security:
A) If your home system is fully automated you can turn on/off the lights, fans, air conditioners and other home appliances.
B) Using 3G, You have a greater control of your home security system by displaying security monitor images on your cellular phone terminal display.
4) Best way of Entertainment:-
A) You can easily view plays, live concerts, and sports events in real-time without any delays.
B) You can download your personal choice of music, movies, and games at immensely increased download rates.
C) You can use the electronic encyclopedia, even with photographs.
After looking at such wonderful features, no one can really tell how much impact 3G will have on our lives, but the impact will certainly be great.
We wish that we enjoy such awesome communication technology soon in our Beloved Pakistan. Telenor Pakistan network is showing no offenses at all in launching 3G services. All it need is a license from Pakistan telecommunication authority and PTA’s encouraging behavior clearly tells that 2010 will finally be the year of 3G in Pakistan InshAllah. Let’s see what happens
According to an announcement made at Telenor’s official website, Telenor will charge 10 Paisa + tax for all balance inquires from 1st September made at *444#, *222# or *111# . If we add the tax, you will be charged around 13 paisas per balance inquiry.
In the official news release, the company declared the reason of this charging is to provide better services to their valued customers. As we saw in the past that the 5% additional service charge imposed was followed by all companies. So, we should expect all the Telecom companies to follow this trend one after another.
Telenor’s official site made the following announcement today mid night:
It would be interesting to see Pakistani people doing balance calculations on their own in diaries or mobile phone notes to save this 10 Paisa + tax per inquiry chargeIn order to provide better services to our valued customers, Balance check Inquiry request on *444#, *222# and *111# will be charged @ 10 paisa + tax. The said charging would be applicable on all Pre-Paid Price Plans from 1st September 2009 onwards.
Telecommunication industry has brought Pakistan to such a competition that directly or indirectly holds the economy of Pakistan and makes the undulations in the financial graph. The telecommunication industry of Pakistan is always been a brisk to the electrical engineers to come and get the opportunities, that is always there. One of the standings in this field is the TF (Telecom Foundation) that has created distinctions in number of technologies in Pakistan.
There is a very lavishly going sparking companies in Pakistan in the field of telecommunications, but the discussion about the TF is also important because many articles and the reviews do not yet have admired or give a reliable response to this company. Here in this short format article there is a little introduction of this company and also its distinctions in this field.
Telecom foundation has been renowned so far for number of contributions by it in Pakistan, we can categorize them here as; tower erection services, pipe manufacturing, pre-cast products, the major contribution of this company is the card pay phone services all over the country, training for the IT and telecommunication related individuals and groups that are working in different telecom related companies and the ventures like the distribution of the calling cards is also done by the same company. There are many other services that are really admirable of this company that certainly gave this company a value in PTCL and its subsidiaries Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, National Telecommunication Corporation and Frequency Allocation Board.
Telecom foundation has built its alliance with the multinational companies in that are playing a major role in the global market of telecommunications, the companies are named as; Noviacom, Teralight, Averox, NCS (Singtel). These companies helped in bringing all the major ongoing technologies in Pakistan, to make the telecommunication market in Pakistan with the pace of the global market. Telecom Foundation has gain a well reputation since its establishment in Pakistan, the hiring of the companies after full analyzing and prospects is done so far very perfectly by the TF. One claim of the TF is the second to none standing position of this company, because of the products so far TF has given to the Telecom industries are working well and has given their hundred percent. Telecom Foundation has also strive for excellence, in present and in the future they are going higher and higher in every field to gain a big deal of excellence, whether it is sake of administration, research and development, manufacturing, all fields depicts the commitment of the organization to the excellence.
Well, well, if it isn't the year of the affordable touchscreen bar - the Samsung S5230 Star sold over 5 million units since its introduction in May. And Samsung expect that number to reach 10 million by November.
Ambitious? Definitely! But the S5230 Star was the fastest Samsung handset in reaching the 5 million mark and if you look at the numbers of units sold month per month - 10 million seems entirely within reach.
In its premiere month of May the Star sold 700 thousand units, 900 thousand the next month and the numbers for July and August were nearly double that - 1.6 and 1.8 million respectively. The Star's rival, the LG Cookie, also reached the 5-million milestone in July but it had a head start of several months. It too is foreseen by its creators to reach 10 million sales soon.
Europe is the biggest importer of the Samsung Star, with more than half of the units sold there (2.8 million). It topped the sales lists in France, the UK, the Netherlands and Italy.
It seems that the Samsung S5230 Star has the right formula for success - light on the cost and heavy on the features. It offers a 3" WQVGA touchscreen with Samsung's widget-enabled TouchWiz and a 3 megapixel camera with smile detection. It can handle microSD cards up to 16GB and with DNSe technology it's a music player in its own right. The document viewer doesn't hurt either.
We are not quite fans of the design but those new optional colors seem to liven up things around that Star - hit the source link below to check out the new paintjobs.
Hourly packages were nothing new to Pakistan’s cellular industry, however, Ufone’s this offer allows its customers to call not only Ufone numbers but also PTCL and Vfone numbers.
As an industry perspective, Ufone’s this offering is almost impossible to compete. Reason is that cellular companies have to pay interconnect charges of Rs. 1 per .50 minute for all calls made to PTCL or Vfone from their network.
Ufone is affording these hour long calls to PTCL for Rs. 3.50 plus tax, due to business relation of Ufone’s with PTCL. It maybe recalled that Ufone is wholly owned subsidiary of PTCL.
I am pretty sure, industry has been going through the heat, but no action has been put forward yet from other cellular companies, individually or collectively.
On PTA’s part, there has nothing been said so far, resulting non-competitive pricing in the industry.
I leave this discussion un-concluded, to wait further and see if any company comes up with any protest at any level against Ufone.
Warid introduced this new package, for its prepaid users
- For all on-net calls, between 4 PM to 7 PM call at Rs. 2.50 (plus taxes) per 30 minutes
- Daily line rent is Rs. 4 (plus taxes)
- If a call continues beyond 30 minutes an additional Rs. 2.5+tax will be deducted
- Off-net calls, and calls other than 4 PM to 7 PM will be charged as per ZEM 30 LCR tariff plan
- For ZEM LCR Tariff visit: http://www.waridtel.com/consumer/zem/zem_tariff.php
- SMS bundles are not available with this package.
How to Activate this Package:
To subscribe, send RH in an SMS to 5060
Note: Standard package change charges of Rs. 10 plus tax apply. A daily rental of Rs.4+tax will be applicable.
How to deactivate this Package
At the end of Ramadan you will be automatically shifted to ZEM 30 LCR. For package change during Ramadan send “Help” to 5060 or if you know your required package code then simply SMS that to 5060.
For e.g. to change package to ZEM 30 LCR, 60paisa or Zem1 sec send ZEM30FNF, 60P, ZEM01 respectively to 5060. Standard package change charges apply.
- It is a limited time offer.
- Standard Package change charges are Rs. 10 +tax.
- All charges are exclusive of government taxes and levies including 19.5% Federal Excise Duty on usage & 10% withholding tax on recharge
- Prices are subject to change at Warid’s discretion
As we did a report about Telenor’s online portal called Web Lounge, where we had discussed about the insecurity of webpages that collect private and confidential information (including credit card number), Telenor has responded with in a week by securing its website.
To visit Telenor Persona Web Lounge: Click here
In a statement issued, company has said that it is pleased to announce that Telenor Persona Weblounge is now on SSL page. Providing customers with safety and security on internet, Telenor Persona Weblounge is now completely secured.
We appreciate the concern of bloggers towards this service, who highlighted the issue in early stages of launch. Telenor is always open to criticisms and give value to the words of its customers that in true sense highlight the loopholes. Telenor has strong relationships with internet medium and look forward to make it stronger in the future.
World is progressing at a very rapid pace. Every sector, may it be technology, business or culture is evolving very fast. This evolution has resulted in intense competition in every field. Like our local cellular companies, they bring new packages each forth day to stay in the market at large. All these low SMS and call packages enable us to communicate with others quite effectively.
Another quite popular way of communication is online chatting. As chatting is cost-effective and very user-friendly, many people prefer it most of the time. There are also many chat rooms online, some are free and others are paid. On these chat room you can talk to many people from diverse demographics. It is well said that nothing itself is bad, but the use of it decides whether we are going to get benefit from it or it is going to ruin our lives by becoming a curse. It is a bitter fact that chatting has become such a curse, these days.
Following is a brief overview on drawbacks of so much chatting addiction and at the end we may be able to have some key points on how to get rid of it, even not getting complete rid, but still we may have enough control over it to decide when and what is correct.
- Most of us are living in an e-life, where we have lost our real relations, values and most importantly, family members. Try spending maximum time with your real mates, like your family members, plan an outing with your friends, or even go on a walk alone. Try to have a topic to be discussed on, discuss it with your siblings, or discuss your problems with your parents. This will make you realize the importance of real relations and you may get an inner feeling that you are wasting time over there.
- Most important step in this regard, to get rid of chatting addiction is that, try to place your computer in some common place, like where one can easily have a look at what you are doing. I prefer to place it in your parents’ room that would be really effective, even more than you can think or may be your lounge. Placing computer in a common place will put an automated check on you that will not let you talk to those, about whom you don’t want to tell your family members.
- Try defining a list of tasks that you have to do daily and do this by keeping in mind that you have to spend as much less time on computer as you can. Try to strictly follow your own made rules. At start, fix a hour or two for chatting, that you will be available only in those specific timings. With the passage of time, try reducing this span and eventually you will reduce it to zero.
This is not just about getting rid of chating, this will really have a great impact on our life in every regard. We see students chatting around in colleges and adults in offices. This has its effects, everywhere.
This is the need of hour to say good bye to this hitch, and this is only possible if one agrees to do so. No one can be your best well wisher unless you are your own. Be wise, understand the facts and try to spend less time on it.
PTCL employees from all departments with-in Islamabad/Rawalpindi have once again gathered before headquarter in a protest against the administration for not raising their salaries and almost no incentives.
File Photo: PTCL Employees protesting against administration
Result of this protest has affected company’s performance notably, as employees have not been working, consequently support concerns of customers remained un-resolved.
This is not the first time that PTCL employees are protesting against administration. They have been regularly blocking the system in past too. Such protests put PTCL customers in very miserable situation, as their faulty lines remain down for undefined time. Moreover, DSL installations from all ISPs also face delays, creating panic amongst the masses.
Nokia N900 Now Official – Photos, Videos, Specifications and Price
Running on the new Linux-based Maemo 5 OS, the Nokia N900 power lies in the capable multi-tasking, which should make it stand out even among the ranks of the Symbian smartphones. According to Nokia reps, however, the new Maemo device is not meant to compete with the Nokia Symbian smartphones, but instead cater for different market needs.
With Nokia N900 you’ve got around-the-clock connectivity thanks to Wi-Fi and HSPA. The N900 offers phone features as well allowing full-featured telephony.
The Nokia N900 packs a powerful ARM Cortex-A8 CPU much like the Apple iPhone 3GS, Palm Pre and Samsug Omnia HD and offers hardware graphics acceleration and 256MB RAM. Switching between applications is simple, as all running content is constantly available through the dashboard. The panoramic homescreen can be fully personalized with favorite shortcuts, widgets and applications. We wonder however how many of those features will be available in portrait mode though, as Maemo is Tablet OS that's hardly been put to use in portrait mode before. Interaction with the handset is available through the large 3.5-inch touchscreen display with a WVGA resolution (800 x 480 pixels) and the 3-row QWERTY keypad. The touch screen also offers a virtual on-screen keyboard and operating with a stylus is possible, though one doesn’t seem to be included with the N900 itself. Thanks to the web browser powered by Mozilla technology, websites should look just as they do on a desktop computer. Online videos and interactive applications are not a problem as the Maemo OS has full Adobe Flash 9.4 support. The Nokia N900 has 32GB of storage, which is expandable up to 48GB via a microSD card. Other features include a GPS receiver with Ovi Maps, an FM transmitter, a 3.5mm audio jack with TV-out function, Bluetooth and DivX/XviD video playback support. For photography on the go, the Maemo software and the N900 come with a new tag cloud user interface that helps users tag and share photos and videos more easily. The 5 megapixel with Carl Zeiss optics is also capable of recording 16:9 video with a resolution of up to 848x480 pixels@25fps.
President & CEO of Moblink Mr. Rashid Khan has been nominated for the award of CEO of the Year by World Communication Awards (WCA). Listed amongst the league of CEOs from the global telecommunications industry, Mobilink has the distinguished honor of being the only Pakistani operator to feature in the nominees.
Winners will be announced on 25th November, 2009 after a vigorous voting process through the WCA website where you can make your vote count.
Vote for your CEO of the Year:
You may log on to World Communication Awards website and vote for the CEO of the Year. Profiles of all CEOs including Mobilink’s President & CEO Mr. Rashid Khan are available on the website.
Click here to visit WCA Website
Voting closes Friday 11 September, so make sure your opinion counts!
Yesterday we reported about rumors that Mobilink may announce bonuses for its employees, and today we can confirm about this news that Ufone has decided to give out bonuses to all of its employees on Eid.
Our sources, in concerned department have confirmed us that Ufone has finalized bonuses for its employees for year 2009, with 2 salaries for those who performed better.
By the way, this bonus on Eid with early September salary will be an added delight to Ufone’s employees, who just received 15 percent flat increment in their salaries.
We will have to see what other telecom companies have saved in their pocket for their employees as Eid Gift for their employees.
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services raised its long-term corporate credit rating of Mobilink to ‘B-’ from ‘CCC+’. The outlook is stable. At the same time, S&P raised issue rating on the company’s US$112.2 million senior unsecured notes due 2013 to ‘B-’ from ‘CCC+’.
“We raised the rating on Mobilink to reflect our opinion of the improvement in its funding profile and Pakistan’s macroeconomic situation,” said Standard & Poor’s credit analyst Yasmin Wirjawan. This follows Standard & Poor’s decision to raise the long-term sovereign credit ratings on Pakistan (B-/Stable/C).
The rating on Mobilink also reflects our view of domestic political uncertainties and security risks, weak cash flow protection measures, and highly intense domestic industry competition. These risks are partly offset by strategic benefits from its parent, Orascom Telecom Holdings S.A.E. (B/Stable/–), and Mobilink’s leading but weakened market position in the country.
In our view, Mobilink continues to remain exposed to the weak macroeconomic environment, external liquidity position and security situation in Pakistan. However, we expect the recent improvement in macroeconomic environment to result in better operating performance. Also, in the near term, we expect Mobilink to face less funding challenges as it is expected to register positive free operating cash flows through significant reduction in capital expenditure and suspension of management fees to Orascom Telecom.
Pakistan’s cellular market continues to face intense competition, resulting in lower subscriber numbers and market share for Mobilink. Nevertheless, Mobilink has maintained its No. 1 market share both in terms of subscribers and revenue in Pakistan’s wireless market.
We believe parent Orascom Telecom would continue to provide support to Mobilink, if required, considering: (1) the cross-default clause at the parent company in the event of a covenant breach of material subsidiaries, including Mobilink; and (2) Mobilink is the second-largest operation of Orascom Telecom by most financial measures and accounted for 20.6% of the consolidated EBITDA for 2008.
The stable outlook reflects the expected improvement in Mobilink’s financial risk profile, compliance with financial covenants, and continued support from parent Orascom Telecom, said Ms. Wirjawan. It also factors in the improvement in Pakistan’s macroeconomic situation, which will have a positive impact on Mobilink.
Now when Gmail is getting popular among the masses, Ufone has also blocked Gmail from their ‘Email To SMS Service’. So! technically speaking; now people who use Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo can’t send Email to SMS messages to their buddies.
Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo are the widely used services in Pakistan. And as Ufone has blocked all three of these, there remains no need of this ‘Email To SMS Service’.
On the other hand ZONG’s ‘Email To SMS Service’ is still open for all the Email service providers and is working smoothly. Here this should be kept in mind that so far in Pakistan only Ufone and ZONG have come up with this service.
What is ‘Email To SMS Service’?
Email to SMS service allows you to send/receive Email by using SMS. The Email to SMS service provider periodically contacts the Email server that you have selected for checking new Email, once there is new Email arrived, Email to SMS service provider will immediately forward the Email to your mobile phone by using SMS.
Below image will clarify the concept:
If the Email message is longer than one SMS message (for 160 English characters), you can send command to the Email to SMS service provider to receive the remaining parts.
Besides receiving Email, you can also send Email by sending a SMS which consists of the recipient’s address and the message to Email to SMS service provider which will then send it as Email to the destination.
This service can be very useful for those individuals who are mostly on the go and need to stay connected with their work.
Zong Ramadan Offer – Win Hajj Packages
In addition to this, the subscribers who haven’t used their SIMs or had zero balance since last six months, can also get free airtime worth Rs.100 every time they recharge Rs.100 or more. This offer is valid in the whole month of Ramadan. So, if you were inactive or had zero balance since last six months, then recharge a lot of Rs.100 and earn Rs.100 free airtime on each recharge. Keep in mind that the free airtime will only be valid for 10 days once it has been posted to your account.The last advantage of the Ramadan Offer is for all the Zong customers. By recharging at least Rs.100, you enter lucky draw to win one of 10 Hajj packages. Draws for Hajj packages will be conducted every Tuesday starting from 25th August.
Dear Customer from Sep 01,2009 balance inquiry request *222# will be charged @10 paisas to give you the seamless connectivity on ZONG network
Earlier, Telenor and Ufone had announced to charge 10 paisas for each balance inquiries, through a message on their websites – which isn’t there now, thanks to PTA.
PTA had directed all cellular companies to advance notice to all customers before imposing any charge. As far as Zong’s this new charge is concerned, i guess PTA won’t cause problem for the company as Zong sent SMS to all of its customers, notifying them for service charges well before the imposition date.
However, we can expect reaction from other companies – and they may notify their customers too for this service charge.
Ufone has increased the ULoan amount from Rs.10 to Rs.15 for the Holy month of Ramadan. According to company’s website, Ufone offers ULoan to provide its subscribers the facility to make important calls whenever they run out of their balance.
Keep in mind that the ULoan amount is increased to Rs.15 only for the month of Ramadan and is available to Ufone Prepay customers only. ULoan can be used for voice calls only. This means you can make calls but no SMS when you are using loan amount How To Receive ULoan?
Dial *456# from your Ufone whenever you balance runs less than Rs.2.50 + tax.
“Last year’s applications were very well received, as we saw over 2.4 million Ramadan applications downloaded. And based on the feedback we had received from Nokia consumers, we have further enhanced the offering this year to include additional applications as well as upgrades to some of the existing features. The applications this year also support a wider range of devices, to include both touch and non-touch Nokia devices,” said Imran Khalid Mahmood, General Manager, Nokia Pakistan.
He added, “Ramadan applications for 2009 are free and join a variety of content on the Ovi Store ready to be downloaded and enjoyed. Ovi Store has paid and free content from a range of global and local content providers intended to be a friendly, locally-relevant store for the widest range of devices.”
Users can launch Ovi Store from the Download folder on the main menu on their Nokia device or access nokia.com/Ramadan on the PC.
This year’s Ramadan applications are feature packed, and include the Holy Quran, Prayer Times, Hadeeth, Zakah Calculator, Mozzaker, Hajj and Umrah and Cards. New features include Quran recitation from multiple recitors, which users can choose to download, based on their preference and in MP3 form. Prayer timings and Qibla direction are provided for 1000 cities in 200 countries, along with the ability to add, remove, update and edit any location using the GPS. The new Zakah Calculator helps Muslims calculate Zakah based on their income.
The Ramadan applications are developed by ASGATech, a Forum Nokia Premium Partner in the Middle East, with all content reviewed and approved by Al Azhar Al Shareef.
ASGATech CEO, Ali Helmy, said, “We have been developing applications for Nokia since 2006, which has given us an easy way to distribute our mobile applications to millions of consumers. By having our applications on Ovi Store this year, we are able to further extend our reach into the growing mobile applications market”
Ramadan applications for 2009 are compatible with a range of Nokia devices including Nokia N97, Nokia N86, Nokia E75, Nokia E66, Nokia 7210, Nokia 6730c, Nokia 6720c, , Nokia 6303, Nokia 6300, Nokia 6120c, Nokia 5800XpressMusic and Nokia 5130, . The user interface for the applications is in English, Arabic, French and Urdu.
Nokia 2009 Ramadan Applications include the following:
The Holy Quran: allows users to read, search, bookmark and listen to Quran recitation
Prayer Times: provides prayer timings and Qibla direction for 1000 cities in 200 countries, along with the ability to add, remove, update and edit any location using the GPS
Hadeeth: gives an easy and convenient way to read the Honorable Hadeeth from Sahih Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, Riyad us-Saliheen, Holy Hadeeths and Arba’in An Nawawi
Zakah Calculator: helps Muslims calculate Zakah on different kinds of income
Hajj and Umrah: offers a mobile guide with multimedia content and the most famous places that people can visit during Hajj and Umrah
Mozzaker: allows mobile users to listen, search and translate a large collection of daily Azkar and selected supplications. People can also download more Azkar and share via SMS and MMS with friends and family
Cards: helps users create their own Mobile Greeting Cards for different occasions and send them to family and friends via SMS or MMS
* “Terrorists have kidnapped our beloved Zardari and are demanding $5,000,000 or they will burn him with petrol. Please donate what you can. I have donated five litres.”
* To commemorate the ascension to the Presidency, Pakistan Post has officially launched a new stamp. But the people of Pakistan are confused which side on the stamp to spit on.
* Robber: “Give me all your money!”
Zardari: “Don’t you know who I am? I am Asif Ali Zardari.”
Robber: “OK. Give me all my money”
The number of the users of mobile phone in Pakistan has reached from 0.3 million to about 90 million during the last eight years.
According to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the ratio of mobile phone users all over the country has been increased from 0.22 per cent in 2000 to 54.70 per cent in June 2008.
As per PTA, there are 88.1 million mobile phone users out of the country’s population of 165 million while they were 306,000 in 2000.
China and India secure the first and the second positions, with 644.8 and 391.6 million subscribers. The two countries account for 1.04 billion subscribers of the world’s total number of 4.15 billion.
The third largest mobile market in Asia is Indonesia, with around 144.6 million, followed by Japan.
In fifth position is Pakistan, followed by Vietnam with around 73.2 million users by late March 2009.
The seventh is the Philippines with 71.7 million, followed by Thailand 62.7 million, Bangladesh 46.3 million and South Korea 46.2 million.
The top ten countries for mobile users in Asia have 3.48 billion people and 1.68 billion mobile users.
It was told that PTA is working in collaboration with educational institutes to get the new generation familiar with internet.
Internet is going to be the next growing industry in Pakistan after Telecom, specifically in a scenario when USF is putting massive efforts to take internet to rural areas of Pakistan.
Update: It merits mentioning here that as per a Internet World Stats there are already 17.5 million internet users, in Pakistan. However, ISPAK believe there are 5 to 6 million internet users in Pakistan – as of now.
PTA is already planning to know the exact number of internet users in Pakistan – which is apparently still not known to anyone.
However, I confronted and made calculations to prove that Pakistan was the country providing the most inexpensive phone facility to its consumers,” said Chairman PTA Dr Mohammed Yaseen in an exclusive interview with APP. When his comments were sought over the spill over of Pakistani cellular phone signals to the neighbouring countries, Chairman said PTA had conducted comprehensive surveys to ensure that there was no spill over from either side.
“The cell phone towers are installed in the bordering areas under a prescribes Standard Operating Procedures (SOP). We are ensuring that the SOP is strictly followed. Moreover, we have held negotiations with the neighbouring countries including Afghanistan and India to address the issue,” he added.
Thanks to Mobile Phone companies like Ufone and Zong which are now offering the out going calls details for up to last 90 days. With Ufone there is a service charges of Rs. 50 rupees to be deducted from your balance and with Zong it is absolutely free via their online e-bill.
You may wish to get the outgoing calls details for several reasons which include.
1. Your mobile is lost and somebody who have stolen your phone is still using it.2. Your mobile is misused by the people around you or by your friends without informing you.3. Your children or family member may have misused your phone4. You have been overcharged by the mobile phone company and you need a details of the outgoing calls made.
Anyhow there may be any other reason for which you want to have a record of outgoing calls made from your mobile phone sim.
How to obtains call details with Ufone.Just visit the nearest Ufone Main Service Center and tell them your number and they also need a physical presence of your sim and your original ID card. After providing these documents you will get the calls details upto last 90 days.
Alternately if you lazy like me then you can also get this information by calling the Ufone helpline
How to obtains call details with ZONG
With zong it is even more simple than ufone as it is free. You only need to register with the Zong online ebill service. (Click Here to Sign Up Now)
After this simple registration steps you only need to login to your ebill account any time to look at the call records for your mobile sim.
So by following these easy steps you can get calling details for your Zong and Ufone pre-paid mobile. Post Paid users with all companies are already entitled to receive this information either free or by paying itemized bill each month.
So for no company is providing the Outgoing SMS, Incoming Calls and SMS details. They can only provide this information to the security departments for certain security reasons.
It is launched by the Motor Transport Management Information System (MTMIS), a division of the Punjab Government. Using this service; now, you can get information against the registration number of the car (currently only for Punjab registered vehicles). By just searching your desired registration number it will give you detailed info about the car and its owner. For example, check out the below image:
Try out this online service and find your cars. This service is surely one of a kind in Pakistan and will be applauded by masses. I hope same service also gets introduced in other provinces for the ease of people.
The home ministry is set to give security clearance to Norwegian telecom firm Telenor to hike its shareholding in Unitech Wireless, byup to 74%, on the condition that none of the staff who have worked in Telenor Pakistan —100% owned by the Telenor group — are employed here.
Indian Telecom industry is either concerned with their security or may have professional jealousy that is why they have made this restriction. India and Pakistan both are living together side for more than 60 years but still both countries lack a trust and confidence on each other.
According to our (very reliable sources), this was told to ITIONIT that Ali Zafar will be paid Rs. 16 Million for one year by Mobilink.
We were not able to take official confirmation on this news. His half payment has been released and remaining half will be given later as per agreement.
It maybe recalled that Ali Zafar moved from Telenor to Mobilink as its new Brand Ambassador.
This is sure that Ali Zafar will bring a good image of Mobilink brand all over the World due to his versatile and stylish personality.
He said the purpose of the project is to facilitate the card holder,as the chip would have all the relevant data of the holder, while couldbe used for various purposes.
He said the present CNIC have a 3-D bar which has not muchinformation of the holder rather it requires an on-line connection withNadra for the verification of the card holder.
Malik said the project would be initiated on August 14 this year as a pilot project and would be completed by March next.
To a question regarding the cost of the new card, he said it wouldbe a cost-effective project as each card would cost Rs80 to theapplicant.
‘We have sent eight Nadra’s engineers to France for training toimplement the project by the Authority,’ he said adding that theinternational cost of each card is around $4-5 but NADRA would provideat $1 only.
He said the new card would help eliminate CNIC fraud threatsincluding dual and fake ID cards. He added that presently, people tryto apply for CNIC on fake documents but the Authority blocks their data.
The Deputy Chairman said that Nadra has a large data base of about100 million people and so far it has issued 71.5 million CNICsincluding 43.2 million male and 28.3 million female CNICs.
He informed that as many as 13.750 million people get free of cost CNICs since the scheme was announced by the government.
Malik said that due to Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) theAuthority observed a tremendous growth in registration of females.
He said presently, the Authority is registering 66 females daily outof 100 while in past the female registration ratio was quite low.
He said Nadra has established eight National Swift RegistrationCentres (NSRCs) in different districts comprising female Nadra staff toregister maximum females.
In addition to this, he said separate female counters have also beenset up for in Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camps for registeringthe female IDPs.
Malik added that so far 19,7000 IDPs have been registered with NADRA at camps only.
1. Check the correct answers
2. Check your result
1. Check the correct answers
To find the correct answers of the entrance test, go to write message option and write:-
UET
Send this to 3443.
e.g. if you belong to chemistry group and the color of your paper was blue then send UET CHEM BLUE to 3443.
You will receive SMS like this:-
2. Check your result
To check your result you need to SMS your application number in the following format:-
UET
Send this to 3444.
e.g. if your application number is 0002 then SMS UET 0002 to 3444.
Disadvantages
1. The 20 free minutes are just from Ufone to Ufone.
2. The so called unlimited messages to any network are not unlimited. They are just 500 messages which are even divided into Off-Net and On-Net. You can make a maximum of 250 messages to Ufone and 250 messages to any other network in this offer.
How to Subscribe?
SMS “Sub” to 704 from your Ufone Prepay connection.How to Check Remaining Free SMS?
You can dial *706# or call 706 to check your remaining free SMS.
