Pakistan's largest
telecommunication company - PTCL - is following an
aggressive rollout plan of its IPTV service which is
a new technology not just in Pakistan but also
worldwide. PTCL's launching of IPTV over its largest
land-lined telephony infrastructure is taken as a
big threat to cable operators and other telecom
players in the country which are investing heavily
in TV technologies like triple play over fiber by
Nayatel.
Being a telecom giant with largest market share in home telephony, PTCL has many
advantages. Currently, PTCL is offering IPTV for free to its customers in
Islamabad for a period of 2 months. Surprisingly, the equipment (worth of 250$
approx) is being provided totally free.
Paktel
(CMPak), owned by China Mobile, has
launched a new brand name ZONG this
month.
Best Practices Conference in Islamabad
Sidat
Hyder Morshed Associates held 'Best
Practices Day' conference in
Islamabad.
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Privatization of PTCL: The Redundant
Employees
(Analysis)
The
country's telecom giant Pakistan
Telecommunication Company Ltd. (PTCL) is
being hammered and thrown to the foreign
business Gods while as many as 40,000
people will quit the job..
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World's Largest WiMAX Network to be Rolled Out in Pakistan by Wateen Telecom
August 12, 2007| (Pakistan Telecom Desk)
A high-speed wireless telephone and Internet facility, WiMax Service will be launched nationwide next month for the first time in the country, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Chairman Shahzada Alam Malik said on Thursday.
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Warid's Network
Facing Serious Problems
in Islamabad, Users Frustrated Over SMS
Problems
(Pakistan Telecom Desk)
Warid
Telecom, one of the leading cellular
service providers in Pakistan, is facing
serious network problems as IT Insight
is receiving complaints against the
company.
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Warid
Being Approached by Telecom Investors
May 27, 2007| (Middle East
Telecom Monitoring Desk)
According
to market sources, Warid Telecom (owned
by Abu Dhabi Group), Pakistan's third
largest mobile phone operator, is in
talks with several foreign firms,
including Singapore Telecommunications (Singtel),
to sell a minority stake.
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Eager to Acquire - 'Oman Telecom' plans
to jump into Pakistan
May 25, 2007| (Middle East/Gulf
Telecom Monitoring Desk)
Omantel
has revealed it was considering buying a
Pakistani telecom company to expand
outside its home market, where it lost
its mobile phone monopoly in 2005 and
will lose a fixed-line monopoly this
year.
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Pakistan's IT revenue cross USD 2
billion: PSEB
May 3, 2007 | (Pakistan IT
& Telecom Monitoring Desk)
Pakistan
Software Export Board (PSEB) while
releasing the results of a study claimed
Pakistan's IT revenue above USD 2
billion. More
20,000 cellular subscribers in Pakistan
seek operator change
Chairman
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority
(PTA), Maj. Gen (R) Shahzada Alam
Malik revealed in a seminar that 20,000
cellular subscribers have requested
to change their company. More
Alcatel-Lucent held multiple demonstrations at MECOM
2007
Alcatel-Lucent
demonstrated its leadership and industry
vision for transforming communications
at MECOM 2007 trade show recently
at Abu Dhabi, UAE. More
MECOM opens at ADNEC, UAE
Visitors
to the MECOM Telecommunications and
ICT Summit, running today in Abu Dhabi,
are being dazzled by the latest developments
in networking technology. More
PTCL's land transfer to Etisalat stopped
by court
In
an eye-opening move, a court in Pakistan
this week blocked a move to transfer
assets of Pakistan's state telecommunication
company to the UAE company Etisalat.
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No
Harmful Virus in Mobile Phones :
Pakistan's telecom regulator
Spokesman
of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority
(PTA), while commenting on some news
reports in a section of press, has
explained that there is no virus found
in mobile phones anywhere in the country
causing damage to human body.
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Mobile Number Portability (MNP) may get
launched this month in Pakistan
(Pakistan Telecom Monitoring Desk)
Rumors
are in the air that Pakistan is going to
have Mobile Number Portability (MNP) on
23rd March. Sources in the industry have
confirmed that they have strong
indication that Mobile Number
Portability will be launched on 23rd of
this month.
Tekelec Switching Portfolio Powers
Frontier's New One-Number Service,
Frontier1
Tekelec has deployed multiple Tekelec
switching products to support the launch
of Frontier1.
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'Software Business Accelerator' program
launched in Pakistan by PSEB, Microsoft
& Agitavi Research
(Pakistan Monitoring Desk) - Feb 22,
2007
A
new program with the name of 'Software
Business Accelerator' launched in
Pakistan by Pakistan Software Export
Board (PSEB) in collaboration with
Microsoft and Agitavi Research. More
Pakistan's IT industry growing leaps and
bounds, claims PSEB (Pakistan Monitoring Desk) - Feb
20, 2007
Mr. Yusuf Hussain, Managing Director,
Pakistan Software Export Board (PSEB)
said that IT Industry in Pakistan is
rapidly growing at the rate of more than
57% per annum. He expressed these
remarks while addressing a press
conference on Tuesday in Marriott Hotel
Islamabad.
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Islamabad: Pakistan telecom
regulator PTA has launched a tele centre
project with the name of “Rabta Ghar”
(Connecting houses), scheme across the
country to provide the newest
telecommunication and internet
facilities in rural and far flung areas
of Pakistan.
READ MORE
Etisalat aiming to buy Wataniya Mobile
Operator...
(Gulf Monitoring Desk) 25,December:
Telecom giant Etisalat, which is on
target to enhance its global investment
to 27.2 billion dollars in the next five
years, may seek to buy a stake in
Wataniya Telecom, the second largest
mobile operator in Kuwait.
READ MORE
Multinet Grabbed Major Telenor Contracts
In a
major development in Islamabad, Telekom
Malaysia Bhd’s (TM) Pakistan subsidiary
Multinet Pakistan (Private) Ltd has
secured two contracts worth a total of
US$40 million from Telenor Pakistan.
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Alcatel & Lucent - Merged At Last!
(DEC 1, 2006)
Alcatel
and Lucent Technologies have completed
their merger transaction and they will
begin operations as the world's leading
communication solutions provider on
December 1st, 2006.
READ MORE
Indian Government fearing Telecom
Investment as a National Security threat
because sensitivity of telecom field
(Indian Telecom Analysis): The
Government of India said that national
security will not be compromised while
enhancing the FDI (foreign direct
investment) in telecom sector from 49
per cent to 74 per cent, and also warned
against “over reactions” in the name of
safety.
READ MORE
From
the magazine:
After IT, Telecom is now converging with
Television
What's the Hype
about IPTV?
Muhammad Farooq answers the What, Why,
Who & When of IPTV
(Cover Story)
IPTV is a piece of the 'triple play'
puzzle; voice, video and data by one
provider over one infrastructure. The
Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) has
become a common denominator for systems
where television and/or video signals
are distributed to subscribers or
viewers using a broadband connection
over Internet Protocol. IPTV is not a
protocol itself. It is a collection of
hardware (head-end systems, video
servers, IP set-top boxes), software
(middleware software, and security
software for digital-rights management
and conditional access), protocol (IP)
and infrastructure (broadband). IPTV is
a crucial piece of the regional telecom
multi-billion-dollar plan to use
fiber-optic cable in order to deliver a
"triple- play" bundle of television,
phone and high-speed Internet services
to consumers....
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PTCL
to shake telecom market, launches IPTV
ZONG launched in Pakistan
PTCL's land transfer to Etisalat stopped
by court
