http://telecompk.net A blog about telecommunication marketplace in Pakistan with news, information, analysis and trends Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:00:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Alcatel-Lucentis one of the major infrastructure vendors in telecommunication Industry. Alcatel has supplied WiMAX related gear to Mobilink Infinity for its first commercial deployment in Karachi this October. Some of you may have heard that Alcatel-Lucent has supplied a comprehensive WiMAX Rev-e solution including both fixed and nomadic terminal devices ... http://telecompk.net/2008/11/19/alcatel-lucent-pakistan-wimax-to-mobile-phones/ According to reliable resources, Verizon has quietly started providing data services in Pakistan. Its customers include large banks. Verizon had announced the undersea cable called Trans-Pacific Express earlier and as this video shows, it has plenty of capacity to expand. This press release mentions that Verizon (to be exact it is ... http://telecompk.net/2008/11/19/verizon-business-in-pakistan/ Editor's Note: Please join me to welcome Omar Aijaz. Omar is an undergraduate business student who has a keen interest in technology and telecommunication and he will be contributing to this blog on a regular basis. The trend of open mobile Internet on mobile phones is relatively recent, even more so ... http://telecompk.net/2008/11/18/telenor-mobile-web-opera-mini/ Just like last year, P@sha took the winners of their ICT awards to participate in the Asia Pacific ICT Awards (APICTA), held in Jakarta, Indonesia this year. There were 134 applications in the running for awards with only 16 trophies were awarded. Pakistan won 3 of them and it is ... http://telecompk.net/2008/11/17/pakistani-winners-at-apicta-awards/ Exchanging online SMS with friends & family in Pakistan is fun and useful, especially for expatriate Pakistanis. I have written about the free services available today but none of them meets my standard for reliability, quality and usability. I was wondering if there are any premium services for sending/receiving online text messages to Pakistan. ... http://telecompk.net/2008/11/16/sms-to-pakistan-what-features-are-desirable/ Zong has unveiled wireless broadband for computers via a USB device with a special Internet (data) enabled SIM in it. It is not cheap. The one time cost of the USB modem is Rs. 10K (zong insists on calling it Rs. 9,999) and the monthly charge is Rs.400 for unlimited downloads. The real questions are: ... http://telecompk.net/2008/11/15/zong-internet-usb-card-rs10000-400-per-month/ Spotted this interesting advertisement at Karachi aiport ... this company does not have WiMAX or DSL but still feels very confident about its Internet (data) offerings. Guess who? http://telecompk.net/2008/11/15/quiz-who-claims-to-offer-internet-anywhere-in-pakistan/ A quick roundup of the major market news and trends from the Indian telecom market. Japan's DoCoMo pays $2.7 billion for 26% stake in Tata Teleservices iPhone not doing that well in India - Nokia and others are too well entrenched in India and China. Getting ready for 3G licences - but at ... http://telecompk.net/2008/11/15/indian-telecom-updates/ Technology Review magazine has published an interesting article on mobile phones and banking in developing countries. It presents a good summary of mobile banking opportunities and challenges in emerging telecom markets. Its about providing financial slack to the vast population (base of the pyramid) through micro-credit schemes, delivered digitally through ... http://telecompk.net/2008/11/14/mobile-banking-in-developing-countries-opportunities-and-challenges/ Pakistan market reached the 90 million milestone at the end of September 2008. A review of mobile subscriber (SIM) numbers from January to September of 2008 shows some interesting trends. Telenor added over 3.8 million new SIMs. Zong added 3.2 million. Mobilink scored some gains but then lost subscribers .... ... http://telecompk.net/2008/11/14/mobile-subscriber-gains-in-2008-who-added-most-subscribers/