Posted by: Bappy on: May 5, 2009
Like any industry, Pakistan Telecom has got few challenges along with plentiful of potential available in it.
3G deployment
There is no doubt that 3G will boom the market once again to its peak because of its features and attractiveness to the end users. There are still rumors in the market for finalizing the 3G bidding process [...]
Posted by: Bappy 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 Khan, [...]
Posted by: Bappy 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
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Posted by: Bappy 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: Bappy 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: Bappy on: February 9, 2009
Acision, the world’s leading messaging company, announced today that Telenor Pakistan, one of the leading mobile operators in Pakistan, has again selected the Acision SMSC to expand its messaging capacity to cater for continued SMS traffic growth. With a capacity expansion of up to 250%, Telenor Pakistan is well prepared to meet the messaging requirements [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: February 8, 2009
Pakistan has grown quickly to become the tenth-largest mobile market in the world, prompting numerous international operators to invest in the market. However, after many quarters of strong growth, the market saw a decline in the number of mobile connections in the last quarter of 2008. According to Wireless Intelligence data, connections shrunk by 0.33% [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: February 4, 2009
Given the importance of agriculture in Pakistan, it makes sense to offer value added services to the agriculture community. Mobilink introduced the Kisan Service service a while ago. Now Zong has also started a similar service. These automated portals are accessed through mobile phones and offer recorded phone information for farmers in local languages. I [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: January 27, 2009
Here is an interesting article where the writer reviews performance of Pakistani cellular companies in terms of advertising.
Now days when every operator is fighting hard to retain its position, the war on advertising front has gone to new intensities. As you have read on propakistani that our artificial growth and so called figures of [...]
Posted by: Bappy on: January 20, 2009
Pakistan is first South Asian country to launch Mobile Number Portability. It was successfully launched and PTA has regularized it well, but some discrepancies become declining factors of MNP in the Pakistan.
Some are as follow:
* Call Connectivity: MNP is somewhat like Ufone’s new ad where patient is having every disease. The [...]
