Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: February 24, 2009
Researchers say a newly tested method for producing super dense, defect-free, thin polymer films is the fastest, most efficient method ever achieved and it may dramatically improve microelectronic storage capabilities such as used in mobile phones. In the February 20 issue of the journal Science, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and their colleagues [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: February 23, 2009
While reading some interesting articles on ProPakistani last week about the Paisa and VAS War at peak in the Cellular companies’, I came across some very interesting Competition campaigns which starting gearing up earlier this month. Reportedly, Telenor Pakistan has initiated this campaign in far flung but populous cities of Pakistan, such as Rahim Yar [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: February 23, 2009
Now days, the most common word in the market is recession and people are curious about recession’s relation with telecom industry’s growth, which is still unaffected, when compared to other industries. Let us review the market dynamics and to conclude recession’s impact on telecom growth. * Reduction in purchasing power * Need and demand shift [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: February 20, 2009
In 2008, DTAC saw its annual growth rate drop below 20% for the first time in three years, with a yearly gain of 18.5%. However, given that Thailand’s penetration rate is now beyond 90%, this still represents a reasonably strong result. In real terms, DTAC’s active customer base grew by 2.91m to 18.68m, down by [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: February 17, 2009
Reliance Communication’s move to slash its GSM rates by about 50% on Thursday could trigger yet another price wars in the Indian mobile market. But, a recent study by Lirneasia deduces that such a move is not likely to make a significant dent in telcos’ existing subscriber base. Lirneasia is a not-for-profit information and communication [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: February 17, 2009
Next-gen mobile broadband is a key ticket, if not the ticket, out of the global economic slump, according to a GSM Association panel calling for regulators to develop frameworks and spectrum policies encouraging mobile broadband investment. Development economist Jeffery Sachs, director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University, said at the Mobile World Congress Monday [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: February 16, 2009
We have seen Telenor Pakistan’s innovation and creativity for their products, services and advertising campaigns, but it would be interesting for you to know that the company has exercised the same level of creativity in developing their way of work. Telenor Pakistan has successfully invented a unique, new and a workable way to carry forward [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: February 15, 2009
GrameenPhone, cuntry’s largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers, has posted a net profits of $47.4 million in 2008, rising from $1.8million in 2007. The Bangladeshi incumbent added nearly 4.5million subscribers in 2008 compared to 6 million in 2007 and ended the year with 20.99 million GSM subscribers. The lowered net additions and lowered handset [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: February 11, 2009
Pakistan Telecom industry was considered the cream of Pakistan’s economy, not in terms of employment but also because of its contribution towards national financial system. After the global recession that I have been hearing named as “The Great Recession”, situation in Pakistan Telecom is not as bad as we see in Western Headlines, but it [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: February 10, 2009
By 2012, an estimated 150 million people worldwide will be using their mobile phones to access secure banking and payment services, according to Jupiter Research. Mobile network operators, financial institutions and other players in the infrastructure chain are harnessing the convenience, immediacy and ubiquity of mobile communications to deliver financial services to the banked and [...]
