By Parthajit
Reference: http://www.digitalmediaasia.com/
Pixsense, a provider of multimedia management solutions, has announced that Telenor Pakistan has deployed Telenor PicShare, a new service based on Pixsense’s PSP (Preserve, Share, Publish) Platform.
Ufone and Telenor Pakistan have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on facilitating both operators to share their infrastructure (sites/towers) for 10 years with mutual consent. The MoU is the first of its kind between the two leading mobile phone operators in Pakistan.
This is a welcome initiative for the industry, as it will help reduce costs of companies in developing separate sites for their networks. Speaking at the signing ceremony, Ufone President and Chief Executive Officer Mubashir Naqvi said: “It is a breaking news in the telecom sector of Pakistan since the infrastructure was the main hitch for all the operators to mark their footprints all over the country.
Warid Telecom (Pvt.) Ltd Pakistan has partnered with SingTel, Singapore, to drive competition, continue innovation, and improve customer experience in the telecommunication market in Pakistan.
SingTel with significant operations in Singapore and Australia and other countries in Asia, provides a comprehensive portfolio of services that include voice and data services over fixed, wireless and Internet platforms. SingTel, one of the world’s largest and Asia’s second largest operator, brings in years of experience in telecommunication arena with history of introducing innovative solutions to its customers.
Tariq Qureshi, General Manager at Pakistan’s Wateen Telecom , the carrier planning the network, presented his company’s plans at the WiMax World Europe event in Vienna.
The 802.16e-based MOTOwi4 WiMAX access network and subscriber units will enable Wateen Telecom to offer broadband data services covering residential and corporate voice, Internet access, and corporate IP virtual private network (VPN) and public hotspots.
Motorola’s IMS solution will enable Wateen Telecom to offer consumers voice services using VoIP (voice-over-IP) including enhanced residential voice features such as caller ID, voice mail and call forwarding. Differentiated services such as pre-paid and simple web-based subscriber account management are also included. For business customers, Wateen Telecom will offer a hosted VoIP solution with traditional business PBX and IP Centrex voice services such as conferencing, integrated with services that include find me/follow me and PC desktop integration.. WiMAX includes IMS support to facilitate a fast, low cost, rollout of new applications and of interworking with 3G and other technologies. The IP core network at the basis of WiMAX will simplify interworking with other IP technologies. Second and third generation cellular infrastructure is optimized to carry circuit switched voice traffic and is not designed to deal with the growing amount of traffic generated by high-speed and real-time applications. WiMAX will be integrated with existing and emerging technologies, both wired and wireless.
Mobilink GSM, gave yet another pleasant surprise to its’ millions of customers by reducing the out-going call rates to a sizeable, and in fact to generous extent. The top mobile network brought down the index of the Jazz Prepaid outgoing call rate to Rs. 3.50 from Rs. 4.75 per minute, which was effective, until now.
Yet another magnificent feature, beamed to the Mobilink clients via instantaneous SMS, to facilitate every-one using the marvelous mobile phone service, beginning with the easy digits of 0300, was that the new rates will not only be applicable on calls made on Mobilink-to-Mobilink connections but the newest facility shall also be valid for a link from Mobilink to any other mobile phone network as well as onto the landline phones of Pak Telecom, the PTCL.
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Mobilink GSM (PMCL), a subsidiary of Orascom Telecom, started its operations in 1994, and has become the market leader both in terms of growth as well as having the largest customer subscriber base in Pakistan - a base of over 24 million and growing. We pride ourselves on being the first cellular service provider to operate on a 100% digital GSM technology in Pakistan that also provides state-of-the-art communication solutions to its customers.
Mobilink offers exclusively designed tariff plans that cater to the communication needs of a diverse group of people, from individuals to businessmen to corporates and multinationals. To achieve this objective, we offer both postpaid (Indigo) and prepaid (JAZZ) solutions to our customers. Compared to our competitors, both the postpaid (Indigo) and prepaid (JAZZ) brands are the largest brands of their kind in the Pakistan cellular industry.
In addition to providing advanced voice communication services that makes the lives of millions that much easy, we also offer a host of value-added-services to our prized customers. At the same time, Mobilink places high importance to its coverage, which is why we cover you in 5000+ cities and towns nationwide as well as over 100 countries on international roaming service. In other words, we speak your language, everywhere.
Mobilink Vision
To be the leading Telecommunication Services Provider in Pakistan by offering innovative Communication solutions for our Customers while exceeding Shareholder value & Employee Expectations.
Mobilink..reshaping lives!
From the humble beginnings of Posts & Telegraph Department in 1947 and establishment of Pakistan Telephone & Telegraph Department in 1962, to this very day, ours is a story of commitment and vision.
Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation (PTC) set sails for its voyage of glory in December 1990, taking over operations and functions from Pakistan Telephone and Telegraph Department under Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation Act 1991. This coincided with the Government’s competitive policy, encouraging private sector participation and resulting in award of licences for cellular, card-operated payphones, paging and, lately, data communication services.
Pursuing a progressive policy, the Government in 1991, announced its plans to privatize PTC, and in 1994 issued six million vouchers exchangeable into 600 million shares of the would-be PTCL in two separate placements. Each had a par value of Rs. 10 per share. These vouchers were converted into PTCL shares in mid-1996.
It is to be mentioned here that on Friday some reports and an SMS messages remain in circulation cautioning the customers not to attend call from a particular number as it causes sever damage to brain and kill persons.
A spokesman of PTA said that the authority has conducted inquiry into the virus threat and no such virus was found in mobile phone.
Technically speaking, there is no computer software that affects human health, he cleared.
He maintained that the computer virus were software programs that affected computer software operating system and did not harm any living beings.
Furthermore, the mobile handsets are built on specific standard across the world keeping in view the safety of human health, he added.
He appealed to mobile customer not to believe on such rumors.
Reference: http://www.paktribune.com
In 2006 Wateen-Motorola WiMAX project in Pakistan created a lot of buzz all over the world. Many similar trials and services are being offered around the World. However it is still a big unknown if Wimax will be a success in emerging markets of Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and China. Can WiMAX deliver its promise of affordable broadband with wide coverage? Some skeptics think that WiMAX is more of a hype created by industry and not a reality yet. Of course adoption by public will be the proof of its success.
WiMAX is a standards-based technology enabling the delivery of last mile wireless broadband access as an alternative to wired broadband like cable and DSL. WiMAX provides fixed , nomadic, portable and, soon, mobile wireless broadband connectivity without the need for direct line-of-sight with a base station. In a typical cell radius deployment of three to ten kilometers, WiMAX Forum Certified™ systems can be expected to deliver capacity of up to 40 Mbps per channel, for fixed and portable access applications.
In Pakistan, Wateen’s project is going ahead full speed and it might be available for public in later half of 2007, according to Business Recorder. According to some blogs and discussion forums Wateen may offer WiMAX to 22 cities in the first quarter of 2007. Malaysian owned Dancom also started offering Wimax in Karachi, starting with the business community. Their prices are still high for consumers.
Reference: http://telecompk.wordpress.com/2007/01/08/wimax-in-pakistan/
