Mobile Internet Users Increasing Tremendously in Pakistan

In the recent years, due to pretty low rates of cellular services, there is an increase in the number of subscribers with an accelerated pace. Furthermore, the subscribers adopting internet services are showing incredible growth of 161 percent by June-end.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority reported, the number of internet subscription on network of different cellular operators have reached 14.4 million by the end of closing financial year 2009-10. The number of internet subscribers on cellular operators’ network was recorded 4.4 million by the end of 2008-09.
Telenor has grabbed the biggest share in terms of number of mobile internet users; however, penetration-wise Zong is leading the market with its lowest cost package of internet services.
Industry analysts said the internet subscription numbers might be over-stated by the authority because the internet users are not permanent in the cellular sector on specific operator’s network. They were of the view that cellular operators’ revenue has seen a healthy increase from the usage of mobile internet on GSM technology.
The quality of handset also facilitates subscribers to use internet, an internet services are used mostly on expensive handset of branded companies. The growth of mobile internet subscribers has outpaced the growth of internet subscribers utilizing broadband and dial-up connections in the outgoing fiscal year.
As per estimated figures, the number of internet users had reached 19.5 million by 2009-10 as compared, with the number of users reported less than 19 million in the country by the end of corresponding previous year.
However, the number of internet connections has reached nearly 10 million in the country including broadband and dial-up. The broadband growth witnessed 150 percent in just two years, which has never been experienced before.
The number of broadband users has grown from 45,000 in 2007 to 900,000 this year. Due to these results, Pakistan has been placed 6th in terms of quarterly growth and 10th in terms of annual growth in the global broadband market by a leading web source on broadband statistics.

Awais Malik Resigns from ZONG Joining MTN Group:

Awais Malik, Director Marketing Segments, Strategy, Products & International Business, ZONG

Awais Malik, Director Marketing Segments, Strategy, Products & International Business, ZONG has resigned from his post and is joining one of the contributory of  the MTN Group as Head of Consumer Business. MTN Group is a South Africa-based multinational mobile telecommunications company, operating in many African and Middle Eastern countries.

Awais Malik is an experienced professional with over ten years of experience in the telecommunications industry in Pakistan. He possesses special knowledge in products, strategy development, execution and management.

As Director Marketing Segments, Strategy, Products & International Business at ZONG he was responsible for creating and managing ZONG’s overall marketing and pricing strategy in order to increase customer acquisition / retention and revenue.

An MBA in Marketing from the University of Management & Technology, Lahore, Awais Malik joined ZONG in January 2008 as Head of Marketing Segments, VAS & International Business. Prior to joining ZONG he was Head of VAS & Product Development (Marketing) at Mobilink GSM Pakistan where he served for nearly seven years with distinction

ZONG launches SMS Delivery Report at Rs10 per month

ZONG has launched SMS Delivery Report today. Keeping in line with its history of providing distinctive services, ZONG has launched the SMS Delivery Report at a very negligible price and will ensure that the subscriber always receives the report for their SMS.

It’s always important to know whether your SMS has been delivered to the recipient or not. Previously, SMS delivery was given by most operators free of cost but due to the traffic on the messaging system owing to these delivery reports, most of the times the operators would shut down the delivery report service. This would leave subscribers in the dark having no option of knowing whether it is a system glitch or their SMS has not been delivered. Currently operators are revisiting their SMS delivery report situation and developing a charged subscription service for this purpose.

This service will add to the list of value added services being provided to its customers. With this service, customers will get information in real time as soon as the SMS is delivered to the recipient and will be assured of the delivery of their SMS on the destination.

Subscription:

For subscription, subscriber can send “SUB” to 533 for activation of this service

Charges:

The charges for Delivery Report Service are Rs 10+t per month.

Ufone’s Province Wise Traffic and Revenues’ Details

Ufone has earned an average of Rs. 1.19 for each outgoing minute on its network during last six months, revealed a report exclusively made available by highly reliable source that wanted to remain unnamed.

We are giving selected details from the said report to give our readers an idea about outgoing traffic and total voice revenues of Ufone.

Province Wise Subscriber Share:

As of December 2009, as per PTA’s quarterly report, Ufone had following number of subscribers in four provinces:

• Punjab: 10,982,829
• Sindh: 4,746,935
• Khyber Pakhtoon Khawan: 2,071,866
• Balochistan: 540,675       

Voice Traffic:
In last six months, Punjab naturally contributed highest share of outgoing voice traffic, i.e. 54 percent followed by Sindh that shared 28 percent. Khyber Pakhtoon Khawan generated 13 percent of total voice traffic for Ufone with Balochistan standing last with 5 percent traffic share.

Voice Revenues :

Following Graph Shows average revenue generated for one outgoing minute. It varies in different provinces because of different selection of tariff plans in different regions.

Note: 
           Revenues’ details are for Voice traffic only. It does not include SMS, GPRS and other details.
As evident from last graph that Punjab and Sindh share lower ARPUs, that’s apparently because higher SMS usage and intelligent tariff plan selection (Reference: outgoing minutes/revenues/per minute revenues details)
We are trying to get hold of similar information for other operators as well. We will continue this series as we get required information. 

Seen in the photograph: Mr. Imran Ahad, Managing Director, Origination and Client Coverage and Mr. Rizwan Majeed, COO Advance Telecom, along with their respective teams

Standard Chartered and Advance Telecom have signed an agreement for Straight2Bank, Standard Chartered Bank’s electronic banking platform.

Straight2Bank efficiently execute and monitor cash management, foreign exchange and trade finance activities. It also offers a wide range of payment solutions on a single platform. This includes transfers, corporate cheques, pay orders, payroll and telegraphic transfers.

Commenting on this occasion, Mr. Imran Ahad, Managing Director, Origination and Client Coverage, Standard Chartered said, “Standard Chartered, consistent with our brand promise of being Here for good for our clients, offers banking solutions and products that greatly enhance our clients’ operational efficiency. We believe that this product offering to Advance Telecom will go a long way in helping Advance Telecom further streamline their business operations through efficient and secure cash management solutions.”

Advance Telecom, with approx 40% share of the USD 360 million cell phone market in Pakistan, will move to Straight2Bank from August 1, 2010. Share of Advance Telecom in the Nokia official cell phone market in Pakistan is close to 60%. It is hoped that for Advance Telecom, adopting this product will lead to reduction in internal costs, facilitate reconciliation and enhance their control levels.

Commenting on the agreement, Mr. Rizwan Majeed, COO Advance Telecom said” I am impressed with the functionality of the Straight2bank product. Using the Straight2Bank electronic platform has led to improved workflow within the company, resulting in considerable time saving in processing of transactions especially with regards to opening of Letters of Credit. I am confident that this product will contribute in helping Advance Telecom further cement its leadership position in the mobile phone market.”Seen in the photograph: Mr. Imran Ahad, Managing Director, Origination and Client Coverage and Mr. Rizwan Majeed, COO Advance Telecom, along with their respective teams

Standard Chartered and Advance Telecom have signed an agreement for Straight2Bank, Standard Chartered Bank’s electronic banking platform.

Straight2Bank efficiently execute and monitor cash management, foreign exchange and trade finance activities. It also offers a wide range of payment solutions on a single platform. This includes transfers, corporate cheques, pay orders, payroll and telegraphic transfers.

Commenting on this occasion, Mr. Imran Ahad, Managing Director, Origination and Client Coverage, Standard Chartered said, “Standard Chartered, consistent with our brand promise of being Here for good for our clients, offers banking solutions and products that greatly enhance our clients’ operational efficiency. We believe that this product offering to Advance Telecom will go a long way in helping Advance Telecom further streamline their business operations through efficient and secure cash management solutions.”

Advance Telecom, with approx 40% share of the USD 360 million cell phone market in Pakistan, will move to Straight2Bank from August 1, 2010. Share of Advance Telecom in the Nokia official cell phone market in Pakistan is close to 60%. It is hoped that for Advance Telecom, adopting this product will lead to reduction in internal costs, facilitate reconciliation and enhance their control levels.

Commenting on the agreement, Mr. Rizwan Majeed, COO Advance Telecom said” I am impressed with the functionality of the Straight2bank product. Using the Straight2Bank electronic platform has led to improved workflow within the company, resulting in considerable time saving in processing of transactions especially with regards to opening of Letters of Credit. I am confident that this product will contribute in helping Advance Telecom further cement its leadership position in the mobile phone market.”Seen in the photograph: Mr. Imran Ahad, Managing Director, Origination and Client Coverage and Mr. Rizwan Majeed, COO Advance Telecom, along with their respective teams

Standard Chartered and Advance Telecom have signed an agreement for Straight2Bank, Standard Chartered Bank’s electronic banking platform.

Straight2Bank efficiently execute and monitor cash management, foreign exchange and trade finance activities. It also offers a wide range of payment solutions on a single platform. This includes transfers, corporate cheques, pay orders, payroll and telegraphic transfers.

Commenting on this occasion, Mr. Imran Ahad, Managing Director, Origination and Client Coverage, Standard Chartered said, “Standard Chartered, consistent with our brand promise of being Here for good for our clients, offers banking solutions and products that greatly enhance our clients’ operational efficiency. We believe that this product offering to Advance Telecom will go a long way in helping Advance Telecom further streamline their business operations through efficient and secure cash management solutions.”

Advance Telecom, with approx 40% share of the USD 360 million cell phone market in Pakistan, will move to Straight2Bank from August 1, 2010. Share of Advance Telecom in the Nokia official cell phone market in Pakistan is close to 60%. It is hoped that for Advance Telecom, adopting this product will lead to reduction in internal costs, facilitate reconciliation and enhance their control levels.

Commenting on the agreement, Mr. Rizwan Majeed, COO Advance Telecom said” I am impressed with the functionality of the Straight2bank product. Using the Straight2Bank electronic platform has led to improved workflow within the company, resulting in considerable time saving in processing of transactions especially with regards to opening of Letters of Credit. I am confident that this product will contribute in helping Advance Telecom further cement its leadership position in the mobile phone market.”Seen in the photograph: Mr. Imran Ahad, Managing Director, Origination and Client Coverage and Mr. Rizwan Majeed, COO Advance Telecom, along with their respective teams

Standard Chartered and Advance Telecom have signed an agreement for Straight2Bank, Standard Chartered Bank’s electronic banking platform.

Straight2Bank efficiently execute and monitor cash management, foreign exchange and trade finance activities. It also offers a wide range of payment solutions on a single platform. This includes transfers, corporate cheques, pay orders, payroll and telegraphic transfers.

Commenting on this occasion, Mr. Imran Ahad, Managing Director, Origination and Client Coverage, Standard Chartered said, “Standard Chartered, consistent with our brand promise of being Here for good for our clients, offers banking solutions and products that greatly enhance our clients’ operational efficiency. We believe that this product offering to Advance Telecom will go a long way in helping Advance Telecom further streamline their business operations through efficient and secure cash management solutions.”

Advance Telecom, with approx 40% share of the USD 360 million cell phone market in Pakistan, will move to Straight2Bank from August 1, 2010. Share of Advance Telecom in the Nokia official cell phone market in Pakistan is close to 60%. It is hoped that for Advance Telecom, adopting this product will lead to reduction in internal costs, facilitate reconciliation and enhance their control levels.

Commenting on the agreement, Mr. Rizwan Majeed, COO Advance Telecom said” I am impressed with the functionality of the Straight2bank product. Using the Straight2Bank electronic platform has led to improved workflow within the company, resulting in considerable time saving in processing of transactions especially with regards to opening of Letters of Credit. I am confident that this product will contribute in helping Advance Telecom further cement its leadership position in the mobile phone market.”Seen in the photograph: Mr. Imran Ahad, Managing Director, Origination and Client Coverage and Mr. Rizwan Majeed, COO Advance Telecom, along with their respective teams

Standard Chartered and Advance Telecom have signed an agreement for Straight2Bank, Standard Chartered Bank’s electronic banking platform.

Straight2Bank efficiently execute and monitor cash management, foreign exchange and trade finance activities. It also offers a wide range of payment solutions on a single platform. This includes transfers, corporate cheques, pay orders, payroll and telegraphic transfers.

Commenting on this occasion, Mr. Imran Ahad, Managing Director, Origination and Client Coverage, Standard Chartered said, “Standard Chartered, consistent with our brand promise of being Here for good for our clients, offers banking solutions and products that greatly enhance our clients’ operational efficiency. We believe that this product offering to Advance Telecom will go a long way in helping Advance Telecom further streamline their business operations through efficient and secure cash management solutions.”

Advance Telecom, with approx 40% share of the USD 360 million cell phone market in Pakistan, will move to Straight2Bank from August 1, 2010. Share of Advance Telecom in the Nokia official cell phone market in Pakistan is close to 60%. It is hoped that for Advance Telecom, adopting this product will lead to reduction in internal costs, facilitate reconciliation and enhance their control levels.

Commenting on the agreement, Mr. Rizwan Majeed, COO Advance Telecom said” I am impressed with the functionality of the Straight2bank product. Using the Straight2Bank electronic platform has led to improved workflow within the company, resulting in considerable time saving in processing of transactions especially with regards to opening of Letters of Credit. I am confident that this product will contribute in helping Advance Telecom further cement its leadership position in the mobile phone market.”

Face2Face Launched: a Proximity Location Application for Smartphones

Face2Face is a smartphone application that can integrate your Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, MySpace accounts in one place – to proximately tell you the location of your friends (or friends of friends in case you desire).

Apparently it consolidates all the social networks to enable you to know the location of a friend if he/she is nearby.

Face2Face says that it tells the approximate location to cure privacy issues; however, it does allow you to broadcast your exact coordinates to friends – eventually enabling you to meet them in person; Face 2 Face.

Face2face will offer you to make yourself available to some friends, and not to others, on an individual basis.

Moreover, cross-network ‘friends of friends’ feature can make you meet new people through trusted relationships while ensuring the same benefits of “social selectivity.”

Proximity Idea:

Idea is awesome; it outclasses other location applications by limiting the information about your exact location. Moreover, it gives the control to the user to decide about what contacts to get your location’s information, a feature majority would love to have.

But at the same time, we think face2face wasted an idea by not developing their own (mobile) social network and just by relying on already available social networks.

Just to add, .ws domain is not that pretty for an application like face2face.

Compatibility:

Face2face works with most smartphones including BlackBerry, iPhone, Android and even many J2ME (such as Nokia’s) handsets.

Download:

You can download application here: for iPhone, Android, Blackberry, J2ME (Nokia Handsets)

Face2Face was developed by Proximate Global Inc. in Pakistan and the United States, and is launched worldwide.

PTCL to add Digit ’9′ For Karachi, Lahore Numbers

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) has announced that it will add “9″ digit with all public sector telephone numbers for Karachi and Lahore – those starting with 9 digit, with effect from July 01,2010.

For instance, 042-920-4466 will become 042-9920-4466

Earlier, Digit “3” was added to all existing 7 digits numbers of Karachi and Lahore except the numbers starting with “9”.

It is important to understand that extra digits have been added to the existing phone numbers and not the area codes. Army exchanges are exempted from this change and their numbers would remain the same.

For customer with awareness and facilitation for PTCL requested PTA that the new series plan should run parallel to old one for a period of one year w.e.f July 01, 09 till July 01^st, 2010. However at the completion of this period to ensure connectivity and customer convenience, customers would now hear an announcement advising them to add digit 3 or 9 to get through on PTCL Karachi and Lahore incase they forget to dial the new required digit.

SEVP Commercial Naveed Saeed said PTCL in this regard also plans to run an awareness campaign to save our customers from any inconvenience and connect them without any problems.

Aasif Inam EVP Consumer Services said this will apply to all callers calling on PTCL landline in Lahore and Karachi from PTCL landline, Mobile, NTC, SCO or other LLOs and we are specially focusing  upon publicizing the change to save our customers from facing any inconvenience.

Just a Coincidence or its Pure Love?

Its about two telecom giants and I do not know who is unable to cut mustard. I noted the other day that both Mobilink and Ufone are celebrating FIFA World Cup in their own ways.

Ufone announced Futsal and Mobilink Foosball, which is very good keeping in view the Football fever these days.

However one thing which I could not understand was that the image used by both Mobilink and Ufone were the same except deliberate attempt to change the colour of uniform in both the ads.

Now I am at a loss who copied whom. Why both selected the same image for their promotions? Is there any dearth of images or ideas in our country this practice is not healthy for Telecom operators since it leaves a bad taste in mouth. What is really so disgusting to me was does it really cost an arm and a leg to a Telecom operator that it miserably failed to come up with something quite genuine.

Anyways cutting to the chase I think this practice in Pakistan must be stopped forthwith.

Hum Tumko Nigaahon Mein

Most of Google Talk users complained that Google Talk doesn’t allow ‘Appear Invisible’, or ‘Appear Offline’ mode, a feature which almost any popular messenger program has got.

Many users were forced to use embedded chat feature on Gmail to remain in “Invisible Mode”, now they don’t have to as you can appear invisible using Google Talk with this Lab Edition of Google Talk.

Other features include:

• Use Multiple Google Talk and sign in with more than one Google account (at same time)
• Features of the Google Talk Gadget on your desktop (emoticons, group chat, and more!)
• Desktop notifications from Gmail, Calendar (with a new snooze option!) and Orkut
• Status Invisible Mode

Download Google Talk Labs Edition: http://www.google.com/talk/labsedition/index.html

Get your fix with Djuice Football Mania!

Get your fix with Djuice Football Mania!

Get your fix with Djuice Football Mania! is a post from: ProPakistani


As the world gears up to witness the best of the world clash in the greatest football event of the year, Football World Cup 2010 djuice has brought football needs to one place. Log onto http://www.djuicefootballpitch.com/ and find out what djuice has to offer. Here’s a sneak peak:

Armed with Djuice Football Alerts, heat up your football fever with the latest scores as they happen or subscribe to updates either for tournament or knock out rounds.

Not only that, Djuice is hosting a fantasy football game on its website where you create your dream football team whose real performance in the World Cup could WIN you a return ticket to anywhere in the world, a Nintendo Wii or an official football kit.



If this isn’t enough, Djuice is also hosting a daily quiz where you would have to guess the winner of each game of the World Cup. Whoever has the most points will win a Qatar Airways trip to anywhere in the world!

The portal contains the following information regarding the World Cup 2010:

Fixtures / Schedule

Live Match Updates

News & Analysis

Gallery

Team & Player Rankings

Details of all djuice football services:

Djuice Football Fantasy League

Djuice SMS Alerts

Djuice Quiz Competition

3G Launch After Consultation

3G Launch After Consultation from Stakeholders: Minister IT	Last Updated ( Friday, 11 June 2010 )

Islamabad: “We are committed to take all possible measures for the growth of telecom sector of the country. All stakeholders of the industry will be taken on board before finalizing the policy for 3G broadband technology and after an extensive analysis and discussion, this technology will be launched in the country” said Minister In charge for IT, Sardar Mohammad Latif Khan Khosa while addressing a seminar on 3G mobile broadband technology as chief guest, organized by PTA in collaboration with Qualcomm and Central Asian Cellular Forum (CASF) here today. On this occasion Secretary IT, Naguibullah Malik was the guest of honour while Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), Dr. Mohammed Yaseen moderated the panel discussions among the participants of the event. Representatives from the IT & telecom industry and academia also participated in the seminar titled “Connecting Pakistan Through 3G Mobile Broadband”. Addressing the seminar, Sardar Muhammad Latif Khan Khosa said that the telecom sector of Pakistan has seen unprecedented growth ever since the deregulation of the industry. He said that currently our teledensity stands at 63.5% and we are well on our way to cross the 100 million mobile subscribers mark in the near future. The past two years have also seen broadband growth of 150%, never before experienced, he added. The Minister said that the recent auction results of 3G spectrum, in India, ending at US$ 15 billion is a sign of bullish mood of investors in introducing latest telecom facilities in this region. He appreciated PTA’s initiative of inviting all stakeholders of the sector at one platform to have a healthy discussion on challenges being faced by the Pakistan’s telecom market for the launch of 3G technology. He said that PTA should arrange such forums in other provincial capitals of the country as well to enlarge the scope of input being received from the all concerned stakeholders. On this occasion, Mr. Naguibullah Malik said that telecom sector of Pakistan has seen an admirable growth during the last five years which is clearly reflected by the sharp rise in teledensity from a meager 12% to 63% since 2005. He said that before the deregulation we could only guess benefits of telecom for our people but today we exactly know how it benefits each segment of society and age group. Our job is to ensure cheap and easy availability of modern technology to the people; they will learn how to make best of the services to their advantage, he added. He said that 3G Mobile Broadband will ensure availability of a number of data intensive value added services such as real-time access to medical records, on demand TV, e-education, cloud computing, video calls real-time weather forecasts and advisory for farmers and many more. While chairing the panel discussions Chairman PTA, Dr. Mohammad Yaseen said that 3G can act as catalyst in the proliferation of broadband and it can bring positive growth in all segments of the national economy. He asked mobile operators to give serious consideration to the early launch of 3G technology in Pakistan so that the consumers can avail latest telecom and data services.   Senior Director Global Business Development Qualcomm, Raheel Kamal also talked on the occasion. During the Seminar, Local and international experts also delivered presentations on 3G mobile Broadband service. The objective of this seminar was to deliberate upon the regulatory, policy and technical challenges in connecting Pakistan through 3G Mobile Broadband. During the seminar participants gave their recommendations for the introduction of 3G services in Pakistan.

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