Telecom Italia, Nokia agree on messaging service

PTCL management-union conflict may end today

Due the conflict between management and PTCL unions, the entire landline communication system is facing problem. Agreement between PTCL management and Union of employees may reach today where-by both the parties will agree to increase the salaries by 40% and a further 10% will be increased in the month of December.

Woman with a Mission

Nubla Iftikhar, Head of Marketing at Dell Pakistan is the first Pakistani woman to have received the Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award. She talks about what is the current situation of information technology in Pakistan and how aggressively Dell is performing to lead the market.

PR trends in Pakistan

Omar Manzur is working with Mobilink as Director Public Relations. He talks about the public relations in Pakistan and how media and corporate sector should work together. He says, Fortunately, with the tremendous growth in print and electronic media, the ethics and standard of reporting has also improved significantly. Yet, sometimes it does happen that an incorrect story is filed in print or electronic media

Data usage in Pakistan is double than anyother country

3G needs to be implemented in Pakistan. The current revenues are shrinking and industry can not rely only on voice medium. High speed data must be introduced by cellular operators. There is a very high demand for broadband data connectivity in Pakistan. The data usage in GB / month on a per subscriber basis in Pakistan is more than double than in any other country in the world including the advanced and developed markets.

Pakistani engineers are not behind anyone

30 teams of engineers from different Pakistani universities are participating in a global event which aims to maximize the fuel efficiency. These young and hopeful engineers exhibited their fuel efficient cars in a ceremony on Wednesday prior leaving for the event which is to be held first time in Asia in Malaysia from July 8 to July 10.

Baseless Cellular Advertising Causing Confusion

Fighting over prices, cheap packages and hitting each other will not bring home the desired revenues, there are other value added services we need to promote to transform into healthy revenue generating services; neat, clean and simple ideas will do much better than dancing and jumping for the sack of fun and the bosses.

Warid sells 70% shares to Airtel India

Dhabi group has sold 70% shares of its Bangladeshi operations to Airtel India. All the formalities will be completed in next 10 days. Bashir A Tahir, CEO Dhabi Group and Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman and Managing Director, Bharti Airtel sealed the deal in Delhi on Tuesday. Indian group will invest $300 million in Warid Telecom [...]

Warid hurts its employees once again

Warid continues to hurt it employees once again. Just two days back company changed the status of hundreds of its permanent employees at the call center in Karachi from permanent to contractual. Similar action has been taken in Lahore based call center as well. By doing this, no call center employee will be eligible for [...]

Wi-tribe struggling with sales and customer care

The very first day when Wi-tribe launched its services in Pakistan I applied for the connection online to be installed at my premises as I was kind of anxious due hype in the market and above all my tiredness because of poor quality of broad and bad after sale services from other companies I had [...]

Warid loses 17000 SIMs, no worries

Yes this is true, there are no efforts from the management especially sales team of Warid to save its biggest corporate customer who has decided to go away just because the people at Warid are not interested to provide good after sales services because they do not want the revenue to keep coming in. “Company [...]

Mobilink giving free Avatar Passes

Mobilink is still giving free passes to whoever wins the easy Avatar quiz. Competition among cellular companies has provided tons of opportunities to involve masses. Every company is playing its role to entertain and support people on various level s to remain close to the hearts as much as they can. It’s not that other [...]

Mobilink requires Head of Marketing?

“Mobilink requires Head of Marketing” this was circulated very quickly yesterday on various job websites in Pakistan. We contacted Mobilink for its official statement, the contact person told ApnaTime that it was not about Mobilink but another Orascom’s subsidiary (TWA) is looking for the head of marketing. I must say that HR people at TWA [...]

Ufone is giving you a chance to earn through BlackBerrys

Hafeez Center Lahore is full of BlackBerrys these days, courtesy Ufone’s discounted offers to educational institutions, particularly a special deal with MCB whereby all the MCB group employees are able to get any BlackBerry model on a 40% discount and 20% is waived off on services. At MCB group, BlackBerry is given to the managers [...]

Nokia 5530 needs lots of improvements

I think Nokia has stopped taking care of the outer body of its phones. Within two to three days, this phone will have lots of scratches on its body that it will start looking an old phone very soon. No matter how delicately you handle this machine

Samsung Corby, a family of style and fun

The distinct youthful appeal is what unites the Corby family but each of its members has plenty of character of its own. That last two additions show that Samsung see enough space available on the market for budget QWERTY handsets to justify their development.

Zong and Warid are worst in Human Resource Category

There is hardly any HR policy being followed since CM-Pak started operation in Pakistan. It is due to very same practice that many senior and loyal employees of company had to part with the company. Corporate all over the world are facing tough time. Though there are signs of recovery but still it will take [...]

Zong makes the BlackBerry affordable

CSR was not able to satisfy the query when called on Sunday night. Why Zong is charging double amount and if unlimited internet is the part of package then why on the website of Zong it is mentioned that Rs. 1000 + tax will be charged on monthly basis. The desperate CSR told that the details of the package had been sent on your mobile number via SMS. When I told him that I was calling from a PTCL number then how it was possible to send me a SMS. He apologized and to avoid the discussion told me to visit the Zong franchise for details.

PTA tries to ignore its responsibility

How come Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) can call the service “un-regulated and optional”, I ask Mr. Dogar that the whole industry is going to rely on this very basic service in the future and I remind him of Mobile Banking and the services like EasyPaisa which are not possible without SMS. If the SMS service is un-regulated then I doubt the whole banking and transaction system that operator is talking about will and going to be implemented in Pakistan will be “un-regulated

Raid in Lahore points out $ 240,000 worth of illegal HP cartridges and Ink Toners

HP announced a seizure of 2,922 Toner packages, 263 Ink packages, and other miscellaneous manufacturing material. This seizure was conducted by police at Shah Alam market, suburb of Lahore which supplied counterfeits to the IT markets.

Orascom looking for a merger

Naguib Sawiris, Chairman of Egypt-based Orascom Telecom Holding SAE, the biggest mobile-phone company in the Middle East, has said that the firm may merge with a competitor by 2011, Bloomberg has reported.