November 15, 2008-December 15, 2008

Content
Editor’s Note
Editorial 8

Reader’s Response
Letters to the Editor 9

Exclusive
E-Ordinance 12
Rafi Real State 13
Calligraphy, an art to learn 22

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Selling space 36
Wateen hosted Contact Center Solution 53

Telepedia
PTCL: Rotten apple of our eyes 10
Telecom web weaving inconsistently 16
New year, new plans: Yaseen 17
Fake prizes cheat subscribers 30
Carriers need new plans 39
Trafco and Warid again shakes hand 71

Event
Zong Polo Championship 20
Kalsoft and Microsoft 21
Telenor’s 3G workshop 52
World call Polo Championship 73
Bank Alfalah workshop 80

Page10 Page24 for social advancement, and

The irresponsible atti- “Communication is the key
Cover Story tude of PTCL is respon-
Mobilink reshaping crisis 48 sible for coercing people there is no better way to
to avail mobile phones communicate than through
InsighT DSL and broadband”
UN reports Pakistan at 131 18
Raffles moving ahead 26
Microsoft’s baseless blames 28
High end American jobs outsourcing India 34
Ten most influential IT professionals 72
Games review 74

Tech-Tools
N96 lands on the shores of Karachi 51
Upcoming mobiles 56
Low range mobiles 59
Current mobiles 60

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High range mobiles 63 Hacker claimes PTA has time and again
Mobile review 66 Nokia S40 issued advertisements in
Latest Laptop 68 burned by bug newspapers for the awareness
of people to avoid such frauds
Technobabble
Hackers heading towards handhelds 42
Gadgets use excessive energy 75

Mosaic
National 77
International 83

Synopsis
National 87
International 97
Just like the first PC In 2008, the growth rate

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viruses came across as of mobile phones is blink-

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screensavers, in the mo- ing at 0.7 per cent where
bile instance they came the rate of fixed line is
across as executable files also decreasing

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Editor s
Note E-Crimes Ordinance:
Govt finally decide between
the devil and the deep blue sea!
Government of Pakistan has finally put forward the
Prevention of Electric Crime Ordinance 2008 according Zubair Ahmed Kasuri Editor-in-Chief

to which death penalty will be given to Cyber Terrorist Fatima Batool Editor
in Pakistan - anyone who commits a crime detrimental to Usman Yaqoob
national security through the use of a computer or any Marketing Manager (Lhr)
M. Farooq Malik
other electronic device. "Whoever commits the offence of Marketing Executive (Lhr)
Rashid Hussain Mughal
cyber terrorism and causes death of any person shall be Marketing Executive (Khi)
punishable with death or imprisonment for life,” the Or-
dinance said.
Zafar Khan Afridi
The ordinance described Cyber Terrorism as accessing Senior Graphic Designer
of a computer network or electronic system by someone Umer Ayaz
Graphic Designer
who then "knowingly engages in or attempts to engage
Khawar Shahzad
in a terrorist act". Manager Islamabad Office
The ordinance listed several definitions of a "terrorist Asmat Ullah
Content Coordinator
act" including stealing or copying, or attempting to steal Azhar Javed
Production Manager
or copy, classified information necessary to manufacture Taimur Shafiq
any form of chemical, biological or nuclear weapon. Web Developer
Muhammad Saeed
The ordinance also set out punishments for other of- Chief Photographer
Mobile: 0321 - 8404389
fences including illegal electronic entry into systems of
Lahore Office
any sensitive installations, electronic fraud, electronic Ph: 042-5750732- Fax: + 92-042-5750804
forgery, system damage, unauthorised access to codes Islamabad Office
Phone: + 92-51-2890054
and misuse of encryption. Punishments for those crimes Fax: + 92-51-2891339
Karachi Office
ranged from three to 10 years in prison. Phone: + 92-21-4602620
We have seen Pakistan Telecommunication Authority
Registration No
bringing regularities into the telecom sector. Now this PCPB/105
Ordinance will further boost up the efforts to prevent (Vol. 5 Issue:3)
any kind of cyber crime in Pakistan. It is worth mention- Price Rs: 300

ing that UN report has declared Pakistan at a very low URL: www.flare.com.pk
Email: flare.mag@gmail.com
(131) position in E-governance and the current initiatives
by the Government will hopefully improve Pakistan’s in- Zubair Ahmed Kasuri, publisher of FLARE
ternational image not only in terms of E-governance but leading telecom magazine printed it from

also in E-regularities. Akkaz Printers, Shama Plaza, Lahore and

published from 105 B, Gulberg II, Lahore.
Now the choice between the devil and the deep blue sea
has been finally made; to abide by the Ordinance is not
as easy as it seems to be. However, our Government has
taken a decision and we are ready to prove ourselves as
helpful as possible.

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Letters
to the
Editor
Mobile madness...
A country with 70 million illiterates has
issued 70 million — no, not books — mo-
bile SIMs. This took successive years of
spending an average of one billion dollar
each year, not to teach how to read and
write but to build cellular towers and
networks. The stage was set to erode
poor people’s meager incomes and sav-
ings.
A crass culture soon evolved and also
eroded whatever little real culture was
left: libraries, art galleries, museums and
theatres? Result? Noise, more than any-
thing else; annoying ring tones and
mindless chatter. Each month, one mil-
lion mobile phone handsets landed in
this country costing another one billion
dollar in (zero duty — zero GST) im-
ports.
That is four billion over the last four
years — enough to ignite a balance-of-
payments crisis for a small, low-saving
economy with a shallow export base.
Eleven thousand people are born each
day and over 20,000 attain the age of 18
every day. Many own a mobile before
they have even heard of an opera. If cel-
lular towers and radiation do not kill
enough grey matter, then there are ad-
vertisements by network operators to fill
the gap.
Dear Friends of Pakistan and IMF, four
billion dollars of urgent assistance
please, to keep this mass stupidity going
on for another four years, no actually
two.
Network operators need to repatriate
profits. Never mind the poor voice qual-
ity and dropped calls. We’ll still pay for
them - MOAZZAM HUSAIN, Lahore
Cantt
Ufone ... Vacant!
I am habitually a net surfer. I am
delighted to see some websites by
prominent cellular service providers of
Pakistan like Telenor, Mobilink and
Warid, the Web sites are quite crafty.
One can easily see these sites getting up
dated day by day by the virtue of
various ads and on going programmes,
services, plans and policies, etc. the
most flaw-full site I have ever seen is of
Ufone. Once you open the site, you don
not know where to go! There are small
tabs and sub-tabs at the head of
websites and one has to read each
carefully to decide what is required. For
example, I want to know about Utunes
and I was at a loss to decide where the
required option exists. Besides, there are
also troubles in inquiring any thing as
the full information is absence.
Moreover, the management site does not
function. There is no portion for news
and events, so we don’t know if Ufone is
arranging one - there is also a possibility
that it does not participate in national
activities like other companies.
Surprisingly, there is no Media Centre,
and there is no option in case you want
to download some ad. On its official
site, Prepaid Black Berry is still running
where it has been blocked by PTA due
to Ufone’s courage to start a servie
without obtaining NoC, strange.
When we visit foreign sites, even Indian
sites, there is a current flavour –
everything is up-to-date and easily
accessible. On the other hand, Pakistani
websites either function poorly or no-
existent. I happened to read that UN
report which declared Pakistan at 131
position in e-governance but I wonder
as the electronic mediums are dead in
Pakistan where the 131 place suggests
its presence. The case is not with Ufone
but also with some other well knpwn
cellular and internet provider
companies and surfers like me can
either wait for the betterment of this
scenario or design their own sites –
Rabeea Hafiz, Lahore.
Another question for PTCL
Time and again PTCL has failed to pro-
vide services it advertises. A few months
back, it was DSL. I know several people
who applied for PTCL DSL connection,
waited for about three months, got frus-
trated, changed their ISPs and got new
connections within hours. I live at a dis-
tance of two kilometres from the PTCL ex-
change on a main road. I applied for a
DSL connection only to be told that I
could not get a connection because of
some 'technical problem'.
I then applied for a Smart TV connection --
something advertised heavily by PTCL.
The company employee who handled my
request told me that I would have the con-
nection within three days. It is now over
two months and there is no news of the
connection. Whenever I call them I am
told that there is some 'technical prob-
lems'.
I have one simple question for PTCL --
why does it advertise products which it
cannot provide its prospective customers
with? What kind of the way of doing busi-
ness is that? - Mohammad Irshad, Lahore.
Undeserved levy
The other day I was recharging my mobile
phone with a 100-rupee card when I no-
ticed the following appearing on my mo-
bile phone: “Five per cent administrative
fee for recharging – on face value” This is
an undeserved levy as recharge is an auto-
matic procedure and no expenses are in-
volved. What it means that this mobile
company has given itself a five per cent
profit on overall turnover for nothing.
Similarly, the PTCL imposed a package on
consumers some times back. What is
poorly-led Pakistan Telecom Authority
doing about it?It is very unfortunate that
the ownership of these companies should
resort to these tactics when we desire the
investors from close allies as Arab coun-
tries to invest and succeed in Pakistan in
much greater numbers than now.Unfortu-
nately the blind and unjustified levy by the
PTV in electricity bills has opened way for
other blind levies which too must stop
after all what is the justification of not giv-
ing Rs25 to say 40 other channels operating
which consumers use.This justifies
shakeup in our regulatory bodies as the
PTA and Pemra, which allow illegal tariffs
and keep on licensing dishonest business-
men and license improper parties to de-
stroy our roads, gardens, put unsafe
towers in parks, on roofs with no end -
M. Shaikh, Islamabad.
Fast PTCL connection???
This is in reference to a PTCL ad
pledging the provision of free and fast
internet connection through land-line
phones. The connection provided is of
31.2 kbps. By what standards is it fast?
Please do let the public know of hidden
charges involved, like local call charges
for five minutes duration? Of course that
would turn out to be more than Rs 25-
per-hour use of this facility. So this
service is neither free not fast-
Asghar Saghar, Rawalpindi.
Awaz SMS: Another trick
by Ufone!
Ufone has started a new service by the
virtue of which an automatic tape will
guide callers to record Awaz SMS when
any dialled Ufone number is found to be
switched off: “App kay matlooba number
say is wakt jawab mousool nahi ho raha
– Agar app Ufone kay customer hain aur
Awaz SMS Baijhna chahtay hain tu 99
mila kar matlooba number milayain.”
Apparently, it seems very helpful as
Ufone customers can record their mes-
sages but the story is otherwise. Ufone
has not notified that the Awaz SMS will
charge diallers Rs 2.50 plus taxes.
This service is first of its kind in Pakistan
as messages are recorded for that num-
ber which is powered off, but I am un-
able to understand one thing. Why our
cellular operators made fuss in media of
each and every up-coming facility or in-
centive and do not even bother to send a
single plane SMS or notice to its sub-
scribers about the up-coming charges?
Taxes and fees are imposed, and the only
way to know about them is to get
charged –Usman Butt, Rawalpindi.
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Telepedia Flare Report
akistan telecommunica-
P tion sector is badly suf-
fering from the acts and
policies of those who sold the
national well-esteemed assets
for their timely achievements.
Everyone knows that Pakistan
Telecommunication Company
Limited is exploiting national
resources by introducing low-
end policies for personal bene-
fits but hardly anyone knows
the troubles which people are
generally facing due to PTCL’s
monumental faults. I want to
bring into the light the prob-
lems which laymen are tolerat-
ing as a result of all that is
happening on landlines nation-
wide. I happened to pass by
Majeed Nizami road (common-
ly known as Temple road) few
days ago. I saw a large banner
erected between two pillars on
the very main road complain-
ing: we are trying to re-store
our PTCL number 042-6371795
from last six weeks but our
cries remained unanswered. I
parked my car and jotted
down the inscription. After
returning home, I immediately
made a call to that number and
to my surprise it was working.
Let me clarify that I have noth-
ing to do with PTCL and this
initiative was merely an out-
come of curiosity. I talked on
the very number with Mr
Lahore: A customer affected by the poor service of
PTCL, after registering several complains, displays the
banner as his last hope outside his Ufone franchise at
Hamid Nizami Road.
Sajid, the owner of the number. He told
me on the PTCL line, which was bom-
The irresponsible
attitude practiced by
PTCL is mainly
responsible for coercing
people to avail mobile
phones in order to rely
least on the national land
line service provider
barded with irritating noises coming all
the way from no where, that weeks ago
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exhausted by the convenient
on line procedures of no avail.
He displayed the banner as a
symbol of strong protest
against that largest service
provider company of Pakistan
who is inefficiently run by
those who have only 26 per
cent shares in the national
asset. He said that after labori-
ous waiting weeks, his pray
was finally heard and his line
was restored. The quality of
communication which the line
now offers is out of question,
as I myself can feel that there
was a lot of distortion in the
line. There is no need to men-
tion that Ufone is a subsidiary
of PTCL.
Although mobile phones
have gained momentum in
Pakistan but there is always a
need of that local land line
which can keep people always
connected as there is no single
problem or density issue.
PTCL subscribers are going on
reducing since 2006. And it is
deplorable to see that the
authorities are least concerned
with customers’ dissatisfac-
You can go on wasting your money and time in tion.
the name of local call charges imposed on 1218, In this article I have com-
piled all those complains
the complain registration number, and receiving which are recently publishing
an affectionate message that you number will be in national newspaper against
PTCL’s poor service to enlight-
restored within next 24 hours… en the reader about the least
passion towards betterment on
he registered his complain three times behalf of PTCL. On one hand PTCL lines
under the complain number of 114, 121 are out of order and on the other sub-
and 106 on PTCL’s immediate phone scribers are receiving usual bills. PTCL is
restoration service 1218. This service no more Pakistani’s favourite and people
are continually disconnecting their lines
claims to bring back your telephone with-
in 24 hours but his complains were not
due to excessive charges and poor serv-
ice. If Etisalat has not enough potential to
able to even issue a spark in the dead line restore the dilemma then why not it
for more than six months. Sajid was quit?

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and willfully encrypts
promulgated the any incriminating com-
Prevention of munication or data con-
Electronic Crimes tained in electronic sys-
Ordinance, 2008 to pre- tem relating to that
vent electronic crimes. crime or incriminating
This Ordinance extends evidence, commits the
to the whole of Pakistan offence of misuse of
and it shall apply to encryption shall be pun-
every person who com- ished with imprison-
mits an offence under ment of either descrip-
this Ordinance irrespec- tion for a term which
tive of his nationality or may extend to five years,
citizenship whatsoever or with fine, or with
or in any place outside both.
or inside Pakistan, hav- • Malicious
ing detrimental effect on code - (1) Whoever will-
the security of Pakistan fully writes, offers,
or its nationals or nation- makes available, distrib-
al harmony or any prop- utes or transmits mali-
erty or any electronic cious code through an
system or data located in electronic system or elec-
Pakistan or any electron- tronic device, with intent
ic system or data capable to cause harm to any
of being connected, sent electronic system or
to, used by or with any resulting in the corrup-
electronic system in tion, destruction, alter-
Pakistan. ation, suppression, theft
It shall come into or loss of data commits
force at once and shall be the offence of malicious
deemed to have taken code; (2) Whoever com-
effect on September 29, mits the offence speci-
2008. fied in sub-section (1)
Whereas it is expedi- shall be punished with
ent of prevent any action imprisonment of either
directed against the con-
This Ordinance extends to the whole of Pakistan and it shall description for a term
fidentiality, integrity and apply to every person who commits an offence under this which may extend to
availability of electronic
system, networks and
Ordinance irrespective of his nationality or citizenship whatso- five years, or with fine
or with both.
data as well as the mis- ever or in any place outside or inside Pakistan, having detri- • Spamming -
use of such system, net- mental effect on the security of Pakistan or its nationals or (1) Whoever transmits
works and data by pro- harmful, fraudulent,
viding for the punish- national harmony misleading, illegal or
ment of such actions and with imprisonment of either description for a unsolicited electronic
to provide mechanism for investigation, prose- term which may extend to seven years, or with messages in bulk to any person without the
cution and trial of offenses and for matters con- fine, or with both. express permission of the recipient, or causes
nected her with or ancillary thereto; and where- • Misuse of electronic system or elec- any electronic system to show any such message
as the National Assembly is not in session and tronic device - (1) Whoever produces, possesses, or involves in falsified online user account regis-
the President is satisfied that the circumstances sells, procures, transports, imports, distributes tration or falsified domain name registration for
exist which render it necessary to take immedi- or otherwise makes available an electronic sys- commercial purpose commits the offence of
ate action. tem or electronic device, including a computer spamming. (2) Whoever commits the offence of
program, designed or adapted primarily for the spamming as described in sub-section (i) shall
Offences and punishments purpose of committing any of the offences be punishable with fine not exceeding fifty
established under this Ordinance or a password, thousand rupees if he commits this offence of
• Criminal access - Whoever intentional- access code, or similar data by which the whole spamming for the first time and for every subse-
ly gains unauthorized access to the whole or or any part of an electronic system or electronic quent commission of offence of spamming he
any part of an electronic system or electronic device is capable of being accessed or its func- shall be punished with imprisonment of three
device with or without infringing security meas- tionality compromised or reverse engineered , months or with fine, or with both.
ures, shall be punished with imprisonment of with the intent that it be used for the purpose of • Spoofing - (l) Whoever establishes a
either description for a term which may extend committing any of the offences established website, or sends an electronic message with a
to two years, or with fine not exceeding three under this Ordinance, is said to commit offence counterfeit source intended to be believed by
hundred thousand rupees, or with both. of misuse of electronic system or electronic the recipient or visitor or its electronic system to
• System damage - Whoever with intent devices; (2) Whoever commits the offence be an authentic source with intent to gain unau-
to cause damage to the public or any person thorized access or obtain valuable information
which later can be used for any unlawful pur-
interferes with or interrupts or obstructs the It shall come into force at poses commits the offence of spoofing. (2)
functioning, reliability or usefulness of an elec-
tronic system or electronic device by inputting, once and shall be Whoever commits the offence of spoofing speci-
transmitting, damaging, deleting, altering, tem- fied in sub-section (i) shall be punished with
pering, deteriorating or suppressing any data or deemed to have taken imprisonment of either description for a term
which may extend to three years, or with fine,
services or halting electronic system or choking
the networks shall be punished with imprison-
effect on September 29, or with both.
• Cyber terrorism - (1) Any person,
ment of either description for a term which may 2008 group or organization who, with terroristic
extend to three years, or with fine or, with both.
• Electronic fraud - Whoever for wrong- intent utilizes, accesses or causes to be accessed
ful gain interferes with or uses any data, elec- described in sub-section (i) shall be punishable a computer or computer network or electronic
tronic system or electronic device or induces with imprisonment of either description for a system or electronic device or by any available
any person to enter into a relationship or with term which may extend to three years, or with means, and thereby knowingly engages in or
intent to deceive any person, which act or omis- fine, or with both. attempts to engage in a terroristic act commits
sion is likely to cause damage or harm to that • Misuse of encryption - Whoever for the offence of cyber terrorism.

the purpose of commission of an offence or con- Report has been cut short; for reading the full ordinance
person or any other person shall be punished please visit www.app.com.pk
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W
ith over 38 years of qualitative experi-
ence in the development of real estate
in Pakistan and Canada, Rufi Real
Estate entered the United Arab Emirates (UAE)
market back in May of 2005, by launching their
maiden residential project, Rufi Twin Towers
in Dubai Sports City.
“Rufi Group has 11 ongoing projects and
another eight in the pipeline for launch during
2008 - 2009. In the residential segment we have
ongoing and planned projects, spread across
Central District-International City, Dubai
Dubai: Manzoor Rufi, Chairman Rufi Group of Companies photographed with Shah Mahmood
Qureshi Foreign Minister and Khursheed Junejo Pakistani Ambassador to Dubai.
“We have focused ourselves
in providing homes that are
not only elegant in design
but also fully equipped to
offer maximum comfort to
the owners”
Sports City, Jumeirah Village, Jebel Ali
Downtown, the prestigious Dubai Waterfront
and Pallisades master developments,” said
Rameez Manzoor Rufi, Vice President and
Chief Operating Officer of Rufi Real Estate. In
the commercial sector we have an ultra modern
state-of-the-art project, Quattro Hotel and
Business Park coming up in the strategically
located Jumeirah Village master development,
added Rameez. Manzoor Rufi Chairman Rufi Group of
“We have focused ourselves in providing Companies.
homes that are not only elegant in design but
also fully
equipped to offer
maximum comfort
to the owners. On
the drawing board
itself, our archi-
tects are instructed
that no room
should offer a
width of less than
12 feet. After all, it
is here that a home
owner spends
most of his or her
time. Therefore,
maximum utiliza-
tion of space is a
key concern with Rameez Manzoor Rufi, Vice President and
us,” he added. “Be Chief Operating Officer of Rufi Real Estate.
it a homeowner or
an investor, one homes for every kind of life style and to suit
every budget properly, we will soon be launch-
can be fully
assured of hand- ing a series of projects in Ajman. By doing so,
we will be able to offer homes, to suit practical-
some returns when buying from us, as our
properties are being completed at an extremely ly every strata of society, and thus we will be
fast pace. A studio sold in Rufi Twin Towers able to fulfill our promise to the public.”
back in 2005, now commands a whopping Rameez Rufi positively concluded his plans
appreciation of 150 per cent to 200 per cent,” by saying that 2009 will see the unveiling of a
said Rameez. “The same is the case with our range of residential and commercial projects
other projects - Rufi Gardens, Rufi Park View, from the Rufi Group, which will cater to each
Rufi Century Tower, Rufi Golf Greens and Rufi and every segment of the market - high, middle
and low end.

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launched a Turnkey train-
Chairperson of
Huawei
Huawei determined to ing centre and Pakistan-
based VAS R&D centre.
Technologies Co., Ltd. met
with President of Pakistan
Asif Ali Zardari in China
strengthen tech-trade Furthermore, Huawei
signed MOU with Comsats
Institute of Information
State Guesthouse, Beijing. Huawei has signed a MoU with Comsats Institute of Information Technology for setting up
Ms Yafang Sun gave a brief Technology for setting up the second joint IT centre in 2008 the second joint centre of
introduction of Huawei IT with the witness of
that with the 20 years’ development Ministry of IT in 2008.” She said, “Huawei
Huawei’s contract sales exceeded $16 bil- is playing a vital role for the promotion of
lion where 72 per cent was from interna- friendship and exchanges goods between
tional market in 2007. Huawei’s products Pakistan and China.”
are deployed in over 100 countries and On behalf of Huawei, Ms Yafang Sun
serve 35 of the world’s top 50 operators, as presented equipments valued one million
well as over one billion users worldwide. dollars to support the e-government initia-
She also mentioned that Huawei tive taken by the Government of Pakistan.
Pakistan is the number one telecom E2E This was highly appreciated by the
solution provider and has more than 1600 President of Pakistan. He also appraised
employees which are composed of over Beijing: President Asif Ali Zardari meets the Chairperson what Huawei had achieved and the gov-
1400 Pakistanis, i.e. 87.5 per cent localiza- Huawei Technology Ms Yafang Sun. ernment of Pakistan would create a harmo-
tion ratio. “Since 2002, Huawei and UET nious business environment in Pakistan.

Lahore had established a joint IT centre where over 2000 engineers had completed
the training. In 2007, Huawei successfully

China to deliver telecom satellite to Pakistan

hina will launch a telecommunica- and launch of the satellite.

C tion satellite, named PakSat-1R,

for Pakistan in 2011. The satellite's
chief contractor -- China Great Wall
It will have a life span of 15 years.
Pakistan will use it for domestic telecom-
munication and broadcast services.
Industry Corporation (CGWIC), said a Contracts for the satellite deal were
Long March 3B rocket would be used to inked in the presence of President Asif
put the satellite into orbit. It will launch Ali Zardari and Chinese President Hu
from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center Jintao. This is the third time China has
in the southwestern Sichuan Province. delivered a satellite to another country.
The company said ground control In 2007, two satellites were sent to
it enters orbit. CGWIC and its sub-con-
facilities for the satellite would be deliv- Nigeria.

tractors are responsible for the design,
ered to the Pakistan Space and Upper
manufacturing, final assembly, testing
Atmosphere Research Commission after

Kaira acknowledges PCB’s role

in localising IT
Pakistan Computer Bureau. Shahida ensure judicious utilisation of funds and

F
ederal Minister for information tech-
nology Qamar Zaman Kaira appreciat- Saadullah also briefed the Minister about the resources and to minimise any possibility of
ed the efforts being carried out by the Bureau on the occasion. parallel working of institutions.
Pakistan The Minister emphasized on the need for The Minister was informed that PCB had
Computer coordinated efforts in promoting computer trained 65,000 government employees from
Bureau (PCB) literacy and maintaining a proportion tilted year 2000 onwards of federal and provincial
in promoting governments in basic information technology
computer lit- PCB had trained 65,000 (IT).
eracy and “To impart the IT skills at schools, col-
awareness,
government employees from leges in all the provinces, the department has
and introduc- year 2000 onwards of federal provided 1098 IT teachers, lab in-charges and
tion of infor- the same number of computer labs covering
and provincial governments in
mation tech- 11 per cent schools and colleges of the coun-
nology and basic information technology try with 39 per cent more schools and col-
development leges to be covered in Phase-II,” said Shahida
File photo of Kamar Zaman Kaira.
of computer in favour of rural areas while identifying Saadullah.
skills at all levels of the state institutions. schools for computer training to check She also explained the working, function-
He expressed these views while visiting unnecessary rural-to-urban migration trends ing and performance of the bureau, the tech-
the Pakistan Computer Bureau (PCB). Upon and to avoid hassle of traveling as most nical advisory services, training and feasibili-
his arrival, the Minister was received by schools at present are in urban areas. ty studies being carried out by the PCB.

Shahida Saadullah, the Director General, He further directed the authorities to
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6 4 ,6 4 0 i n 2 0 0 3 a nd i t s m e m b e r s hi p
g r e w t o 8 1 ,0 2 7 i n 2 0 0 5 , a t t ha t t i m e
PT CL s u b s c r i b e r s w e r e 5 ,1 9 0 ,8 9 9 . I n
2 0 0 5 , B r a i n L i m i t e d a nd W or l d Ca l l
e nt e r e d i n t he r a c e of fi x e d l i ne s e r v -
i c e p r ov i d e r a nd t he t ot a l nu m b e r of
fi x e d l i ne u s e r s i n 2 0 0 5 w a s 5 ,2 7 7 ,5 4 6 .
I n 2 0 0 7 , a l l s e r v i c e p r ov i d e r s g o on
i nc r e a s i ng t he i r ne t w or k e x c e p t PT CL
w ho w i t ne s s e d a d e c l i ne of 5 5 2 ,2 3 8 .
T he 4 ,6 7 6 ,2 0 4 s u b s c r i b e r s of PT CL fu r -
t he r d e c r e a s e d t o 4 ,4 0 5 ,1 6 1 i n Ju ne ,
2 0 0 8 a s p e r s t a t i s t i c s i s s u e d b y PT A .
T ot a l l a nd l i ne s u b s c r i b e r s (w i t h a n
a d d i t i on of U ni on Com m u ni c a t i on i n
2 0 0 6 ) w a s 4 ,5 4 6 ,4 4 3 t i l l Ju ne 2 0 0 8 . T he
t ot a l fi x e d t e l e c om d e ns i t y of 2 .1 8 i n
2 0 0 0 r e a c he d 4 .1 (w i t h W L L d e ns i t y of
1 .4 ) i n 2 0 0 8 .

In 2006 this sector was at

its peak in not only
mobile but also in
landline subscribers. In
2008, the growth rate of
mobile phones is blinking
at 0.7 per cent where the
rate of fixed line is also
decreasing
Not only the blockage of illegal SIMs is responsible for the
decrease in the growing telecom sector of Pakistan but also the T he t ot a l t e l e d e ns i t y i n Pa k i s t a n
increase in taxes on both handsets and cellular services (fi x e d , w i r e l e s s l oc a l L oop a nd
m ob i l e ) i n Pa k i s t a n w a s 5 9 .8 0 i n
August 2008 as per data issued by
PT A . T he g r ow t h w hi c h w a s e x p e c t e d
p ea k o f 1 7 0 . 2 in 2 0 0 6 . A f t er t hi s

I
t is un b e lie vab le f o r in t er n a t io n a l
t o b e t r i p l e d , s u ffe r e d l e g i t i m a t e r e g u -
marke t th at th e te lec o m s ec t o r o f p r o g r es s t h e a v a la n c h e b eg i ns a nd t he
l a r i t i e s for t he fi r s t t i m e i n i t s l i fe -
P akistan h as re main ed s u c c es s f u l g r o w t h r a t e d ep r ec ia t ed t o 3 9 .4 p e r
t i m e , i s no m or e a g r ow t h. I t i s ha r d l y
in ach ie vin g a gro wth r a t e o f 1 7 0 p er c en t in 2 0 0 8 . Th e d ec r ea s e i n onc e
s u s t a i ni ng – t he g r ow t h r a t e of 1 7 0
ce n t in 2006. T h e pe n e t r a t io n a n d k n o w n a s r em a r k a b le g r o w t h d i d not
p e r c e nt r e d u c e d t o 0 .7 p e r c e nt . I t i s
af f e ctivity d isplaye d by t h is p a r t o f s t a y ed t h er e a s f u r t h er d ec r e a s e w a s
u nw i s e t o t hi nk t ha t p e op l e a r e no
th e wo rld in te rms o f telec o m m u n ic a - w it n es s ed b y t h e P a k is t a n
m or e i nt e r e s t e d i n g e t t i ng a S I M : t he
tio n s is f avo ure d b y inev it a b le m is - Telec o m m u n ic a t io n A u t h o r i t y . T he
fa c t i s t ha t t he nu m b e r of b l oc k e d i l l e -
man age me n t. g r o w t h r a t e w a s r ed u c ed t o 0 .3 p e r
g a l or u nr e g i s t e r e d S I M s i s m or e t ha n
As much h as b e e n s a id a b o u t illeg a l c en t in A u g u s t 2 0 0 8 , h o w ev e r , t he s i t -
t hos e S I M s w hi c h a r e now l e g i t i m a t e l y
SIMs issue s an d o th e r ir r eg u la r it ies o f u a t io n w a s s t a b ilis ed w it h t he 0 .4 p e r
i s s u e d .

th e e x- c e nt
ch airman o f in c r e a s e i n
P T A, I am g r ow t h r a t e
in clin e d to in t he
d iscuss o n ly m ont h of
th e September.
pro gre ss T he m ob i l e
wh ich lan d - d e ns i t y of
lin e an d 0 .2 2 i n 2 0 0 0
ce llular n e t- r e a c he d
wo rk h as 5 5 .9 0 i n
mad e in 2008.
P akistan Now
d urin g all ha v e a l ook
th e se ye ars. a t t he fi x e d
Ce llular gro wth star t ed t o g a in lin e g r o w t h f r o m 2 0 0 0 o n w a r d s . PT CL
mo me n tum in 2000 with a g r o w t h r a t e h a s n o c o m p et it o r s t ill 2 0 0 2 w i t h
o f 15. 39 pe r ce n t wh ich r ea c h ed t h e 3 , 6 5 5 , 4 7 4 s u b s c r ib er s . N TC a t t a i ne d

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After 31st of January, a ban will be imposed on sale of pre-active

SIMs and then every new SIM user will be connected to the
NADRA for verification purpose. PTA is developing an automated
system to eliminate the core concerns of our stake holders re-
garding illegal SIMs. The Authority has already blocked over 10
million SIMs and strict action will be taken against the culprits
after January. PTA is committed to eliminate this curse which is a
serious security threat to our national integrity
rotecting customer's interest and ensur- sulted in procedure of 3G auction. "Regarding Government of Pakistan took a principal deci-

P ing competitive telecom environment is

the prime task of PTA. Our people
friendly policies have paved the way for tele-
com growth in the past and the future will also
prove our point. This was told by the chairman
of PTA Dr Muhammad Yaseen in a recent in-
terview. He said due to our friendly policies
call rates have slashed down and tele-density
has crossed the 52 per cent mark. He said that
the revolutionary step of PTA has been ac-
knowledged at world level and we are ready
to do more for the customer's satisfaction with
the introduction of new value added services.
He said that we are making every possible ef-
fort to introduce latest technology and innova-
tion to telecom sector. He said that we have
changed the procedure and direction of our
policies which is paying dividend to the sector.
He was of the view that we have worked for
voice communications earlier and now mil-
lions of people are using mobiles nationwide.
To a question about illegal SIMs, he clearly
stated that we have already blocked over 10
million SIMs and strict action will be taken
against the culprits after January. PTA is com-
mitted to eliminate this curse which is a seri-
ous security threat to our national integrity. He
said after January 31, a ban will be imposed on
the sale of pre-active SIMs and then every new
SIM user will be connected to the NADRA for
verification purpose. He said we are develop-
ing an automated system to eliminate the core
concern of our stake holders regarding illegal
SIMs.
Dr Yaseen said that the Authority is set to
launch various future initiatives to make the
telecom sector more vibrant and attractive for
foreign direct investment (FDI). These initia-
tives include establishment of 3G service, rural
telephony, consumer protection cell, strategy
and development division, mobile virtual net-
work operators, broadband, etc. Consultation
regarding 3G service with the stakeholders had
been carried out through industry forums and
seminars from time to time.
While replying to a question about 3G he
said that 3G spectrum auctions will be held
early next year and modalities are being final-
ized in this regard. Ministry of IT is also con-
rural telephony, the PTA is now focusing on
the improvement of telephone services in far-
flung areas of the country and numbers of
steps are being taken to increase rural teleph-
ony. Basically this issue is tackled through Uni-
versal Service Fund (USF)," he said. However,
PTA has also initiated rural telephony projects
through the Rabta Ghar Scheme aimed at the
proliferation of telecom facilities in the rural
and far flung un-served and undeserved areas
of Pakistan to bridge the digital divide be-
tween urban and rural areas. "It also provides
employment opportunities to graduates of re-
mote and rural areas," he added. "The growth
of broadband services could not take fast pace
in view of its high costs. PTA has now focused
on this area and with the launch of some recent
During the last four years telecom sector had attracted
more than $ eight billion investment which is gradually in-
creasing. With this huge investment, telecom sector has
paid Rs 77 billion to national exchequer in 2005-06 while in
2007-08 Rs 111 billion was paid to the government as tax
and other charge
services like Wimax, penetration of broadband
across the country would result in enhanced
data and voice services available to common
Pakistanis.
“More than 100 per cent growth of broad-
band was recorded in the last year. 3G will also
increase mobile broadband services. In view of
prompt solutions of consumer complaints a
dedicated consumer protection cell has re-
cently been established at PTA. This cell would
work in close coordination with mobile, fixed,
internet and other operators to solve con-
sumers' complaints regarding their services.
Consumer regulations are also being formed
which would help in dealing with consumer
related issues. Other measures in this regard
would also be taken," he added. He said a new
division namely strategy and development has
been formed in PTA which would work as a
think tank and would advise the Authority on
future telecom policies. “Taking into account
the increasing scope of mobile virtual network
operators (MVNO) in world cellular market,
sion to allow MVNO services in Pakistan and
included it as a clause in Mobile Cellular Pol-
icy 2004. The same was added in new Cellular
Mobile Licenses,” he informed in compliance
with the policy PTA has issued a framework
for MVNO services in Pakistan in March 2006.
"This framework was twice revised in May
2007 and April 2008 respectively to incorporate
feedback from industry.
He was of the view that during the last four
years telecom sector had attracted more than
US $ eight billion of investment which is grad-
ually increasing. This huge investment telecom
sector has paid Rs 77 billion to national excheq-
uer in 2005-06 while in 2007-08 Rs 111 billion
had paid to the government as tax and other
charges.
Regarding the PTCL different packages, he
said that he has told the president of PTCL Mr
Walid Irshad that it is necessary to get ap-
proval of any package before announcement or
implementation in the future. Walid Irshad to-
tally agreed to our point of view and promised
not to repeat the mistake. He said we have de-
veloped guideline procedures and no one will
be allowed to violate them. Regarding quality
of survey, he dispelled the impression that
these QoS are low standard. He clarified that in
many developed nations; there may not be
service of one operator and the customer has to
shift to other company. He said we are con-
ducting surveys after every two months re-
garding call charges, call drop ratio and
quality of service and then we issue directives
to companies to improve their services and
strategies if required.
He said this is our success that six cellular
companies are working in Pakistan and their
network and services are expanding in every
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InsighT Khawar Shahzad
espite the allocation of Rs 25.88 billion
D
by the Ministry of Information
Technology and Telecommunication
Division for e-governance, Pakistan ranks 131 in
the world with underdeveloped countries like
Angola, Algeria, Kenya, Suriname, Namibia,
Gabon, Antigua, Barbuda and Guyana ahead.
According to a report released by the United
Nations titled "United Nations Survey 2008;
from e-Governance to Connected Governance",
e-governance has been declared as the best tool
to check transparency, accountability, efficiency
and effectiveness of any government.
Pakistan, which has shown tremendous
growth in Information Technology, and accord-
Pakistan, which has shown tremen-
dous growth in Information
Technology, and according to latest
data has achieved 60 per cent tele-
density with the internet users more
than 4,000,000, has failed to show any
progress to e-governance and Web
Assessment in the country, despite
having the entire infrastructure
ing to latest data has achieved 60 per cent tele-
density with the internet users more than
4,000,000, has failed to show any progress to e-
governance and Web Assessment in the coun-
try, despite having the entire infrastructure.
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While in Web Assessment 2008 Pakistan was ranked
at 70, with underdeveloped Jordan, Angola and
Mauritius are ahead in e-governance. Interestingly in
'Head of State Websites that Encourage Citizen
Engagement' Pakistan is ranked below Bangladesh,
Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Dominican Republic, Egypt,
Honduras, Indonesia, Palau, and Papua New Guinea,
Guinea, Philippines, Saint Kitts and Vietnam and
many unknown African countries like Togo, Uganda,
Nevis, Cameroon, Congo, Namibia, Niger and Nigeria
The report says cymaking. The report also states that in the cur-
in E-Government rent world characterized by rapid change driv-
Readiness for en by globalization, the knowledge-based econ-
Southern Asia, omy poses some challenges but also opportuni-
Pakistan ranks 5th ties for the private sector and the public sector
out of nine coun- alike.
tries of SAARC, Using information communication technolo-
Maldives, Sri gy (ICT), Pakistan having 60 per cent tele-densi-
Lanka, Iran and ty, public sector organizations of any govern-
India, and is ment can set new paradigms in formulating
ranked at 131, strategy, planning, consultation and implemen-
while small coun- tation with 100 per cent transparency. The
tries of Africa and report not only recognizes but also urges mem-
Latin America like ber countries that e-government was beneficial
Libyan Arab for providing better services, more choices,
Jamahiriya, more personalisation and greater accountability
Algeria, Kenya, of how citizens' money is spent.
Suriname, Tunisia, This report therefore looks at the issue of
The officer claims that e-governance
Swaziland, Namibia, and
Angola, Turkmenistan,
Gabon, Maldives, Antigua, could be made effective in the coun-
Barbuda and Guyanaare try with less than 1 per cent of the
ahead. While in Web
Assessment 2008 Pakistan is budget allocated for e-governance by
ranked at 70, with underde- the Ministry of Information
veloped Jordan, Angola and
Mauritius are ahead in e- Technology as the entire infrastruc-
governance. Interestingly in ture was already present in the form
'Head of State Websites that
Encourage Citizen of ICT
Engagement' Pakistan is
ranked below Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burkina connected governance from the perspective of
Faso, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Honduras, how governments manage and how they should
Indonesia, Palau, and Papua manage their back office processes. Above all e-
New Guinea, Guinea, government helps in E-Decision-Making by tak-
Philippines, Saint Kitts and ing into account the e-inputs of citizens into the
Viet Nam and many decision-making process. The government
unknown African countries informs its citizens on what decisions have been
like Togo, Uganda, Nevis, taken based on the consultation process.
Cameroon, Congo, Namibia, In Pakistan, there is a recent example of an
Niger and Nigeria. The officer of Planning Commission who put all the
report also indicates that in information of two projects on a certified web-
E-Participation Index, site worth Rs 6000 perhaps ensuring 100 per
Pakistan is ranked at 98 with cent transparency in spending the tax-payers'
Mauritania, Mauritius, Niger money while the commission had allocated Rs
Swaziland, and Angola along 360 million for the purpose of monitoring the
with the least develop coun- projects. The officer claims that e-governance
tries of Asia, Cambodia hav- could be made effective in the country with less
ing better position. than 1 per cent of the budget allocated for e-
It is pertinent to mention here that E- governance by the Ministry of Information
Participation has the potential to establish more Technology as the entire infrastructure was
transparency in government by allowing citi- already present in the form of information com-
zens to use new channels of influence, which munication technology (ICT).

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ZONG joins hands with Lahore Gymkhana

Golf Club for the Promotion of Golf

Lahore: Chief Executive Officer Zong, Mr Qian Li addresses (L to R) Director Sales Zong Mr Ali Kamran, COO Zong Mr. Zafar Usmani, CEO Zong Qian Li, Governor Punjab
the audience at Gymkhana Golf Club. Salman Taseer and Regional Director Central Zong Mr. Muhammad Ali Raza in a group photo after the ceremony.

Lahore: Chairman Lahore Gymkhana Golf Club Mian Misbah ur Rehman receives the Lahore: Governor Punjab Salman Taseer giving prize to a participant after the match.
keys of cars, sponserd by Zong, from Governor Punjab Salman Taseer.

Lahore: Regional Director Central Zong, Mr. Muhammad Ali Raza along with Zong Lahore: Governor Punjab Salman Taseer and CEO Zong Qian Li with the
members at Golf Promotion Ceremony. golfers after the ceremony.

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Microsoft initiated another
spell of its ongoing global
launches at a local ceremony
unveiling Microsoft 2008 Virtu-
alization Launch Wave
n the current times of resource crunch where
I businesses align to install cost prohibitive
measures, Microsoft provides virtualization
solutions which would be a key enabler for com-
panies to optimize their IT investments and im-
plement a flexible and dynamic data centre.
Virtualization is the next momentous phenome-
non hedged to shape the IT sector.
Kashif Awan, Principal Consultant, Kalsoft gives a presentation.
Microsoft initiated another spell of its ongo-
ing global launches at a local ceremony unveiling
Microsoft 2008 Virtualization Launch Wave. The
one day session which marked presence of deci-
sion makers from across diversified industries
aimed to enhance awareness of Virtualization so-
Mr Ehtisham and Ms Fareeha give away the award to
the lucky winner.
lutions within the country and give impetus to
its deployment in businesses across the board.
More specifically, the event aimed to intro-
duce three key virtualization technologies i.e.
Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, system center
Flare Report Event
virtual machine manager (SCVMM) 2008 and mi- He further added, “This step comes at an im-
crosoft application virtualization (App-V) which
formulate the core of Microsoft’s current solution
offerings in the domain of virtualization for its
portant stage when the country is faced by chal-
lenging economic stance, Microsoft under the
aegis of its Global Virtualization campaign aims
customers in Pakistan. Microsoft’s premier part- to help businesses in Pakistan to effectively com-
ners KalSoft demonstrated various configura- bat the threats posed under such circumstances”.
tions and operations which could be achieved Country General Manager Microsoft Pak-
through Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Princi- istan, Kamal Ahmed, addressed the gathering
pal Consultant from and emphasized the need and benefits of virtual-
KalSoft, Kashif Awan, ization for businesses in Pakistan. He said, “The
took the audience virtualization tools and solutions aim to enhance
through various scenar- the business competencies of a corporation as a
ios on how virtualization whole. This translates as creating win-win solu-
can be used to effectively tions for businesses fortifying their on-premise
manage available re- and off-premise IT infrastructure allows busi-
sources. nesses to effectively deal with their resource limi-
The highlight of the tations. The virtualization technologies are an
day was the presence of investment that enables capacity building and in-
Ehtesham Hanif, Direc- stalls a sound IT Infrastructure allowing firms to
tor, Core Infrastructure enjoy a more flexible and synergised business
Optimization Architec- and IT structure.”
ture from Microsoft Cor- Khurram Hanif Kalia, President and CEO of
porate Headquarter, KalSoft, said, “In a time when assuring the in-
Redmond USA. While tegrity of data is so critical for the success of an
addressing the digni- organization, virtualization offers IT Managers
taries from various or- the opportunity to completely secure their intel-
ganisations he lectual property. Critical processes such as Disas-
commented, “Virtualization is geared to redefine
the traditional business operations. At Microsoft
This step comes at an im-
portant stage when the
country is faced by
challenging economic
stance, Microsoft under
the aegis of its Global Vir-
tualization campaign aims
Kamal Ahmed, Country Manager, Microsoft in a pleasant
to help businesses in Pak- mood with his colleagues after the ceremony.
istan to effectively combat ter Recovery, backups and having robust access
to information should a crisis arise, are essential
the threats posed under to the business continuity of an enterprise”.
such circumstances Microsoft’s initiative to harbour greater
awareness for virtualization is in line with its
we strive to provide services that enable technol- global efforts for Virtualization Launch in Sep-
ogy to be the key driver of business growth tember 2008.

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Exclusive Azhar Javed
Calligraphy the art
to learn
The young artists must learn the rules of calligraphy. At a
very later stage when one has mastered the art, one hould
go for experimentation and innovation in the field…. It is
unfortunate that artworks of the leading artists has been
copied and openly sold. However, a true art lover will always
find the difference between the fake and original painting
C
omputer makes lives easier,
works faster and projects pre-
sentable. It can easily build up
one’s creative works and even make
impossible jobs quite easier. One can
find many websites on calligraphy but it
is a fact that the hand-made calligraphy
is irreplaceable - matchless. Recently, I
contacted a calligrapher named Asghar
Ali, a man of handy wonders. When I
inquired him if he takes any help from
the computer, he humbly replied that he
had never used a computer in his whole
life.
Asghar Ali has remained official
naqqash (calligrapher and designer) at
Masjid-e-Nabwi for seven years and
done calligraphic designing at Madina-
al-Munawara for eight years. His love
for calligraphy grew when he worked
there under the guidance of master cal-
ligrapher Shafiquzaman. He returned in
1998 and devoted himself solely to
excelling in calligraphic art. He has spent 16
years of his life in painting landscapes and cal-
ligraphy. He has to his credit participation in
the group shows across the globe and solo
shows at top galleries across the country. The
innate passion for calligraphy was perhaps not
enough for Asghar Ali. There was craze to excel
in the centuries old art of the masters. In a
decade, he has been recognised as an innovative
artist in the realm of arts. His works adorns the
halls of celebrities and public buildings includ-
ing the Prime Minister House in Islamabad. The
inner solace and harmony that comes with
insight-full hard work is visible in his calligra-
phy. His compositions on canvas are a blend of
traditional and contemporary art. He uses oil
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ligraphic work is the composition which
appears in different layers and at times gives
the impression of one whole image - a city, a
mosque, a historical building or object.
Although he uses earthly tones but the use of
dark and light in base makes the composition
striking at first sight. It also brings in the impact
of giving more depth to the artwork. Sometimes
ago, this technique was adopted by calligra-
phers and they called it calli-painting. Asghar
suggested that all those who wish to take callig-
raphy professionally must learn the traditional
calligraphy.
"The young artists must learn the rules of cal-
ligraphy. One should only try to experiment
when he had done much work according to
rules. At a very later stage when one has mas-
tered the art, one should go for experimentation
and innovation in the field.”
Asghar Ali stressed on the introduction of cal-
ligraphy as a subject at school and college level.
"Everywhere in the world calligraphy is consid-
ered as a national treasure and children are
encouraged to learn calligraphy so that they can
better acquaint with their roots. The Japanese,
Korean and Chinese all treasure their traditional
calligraphy. It is unfortunate that mostly people
in Pakistan do not encourage their children to
learn calligraphy. The government should first
of all introduce it as a compulsory subject from
Computer provides one grade one to five in the public sector." Asghar
with technical shortcuts
but these short-ways are
not a substitute to the
laborious paths of self-
evolution. Those learn-
ers who have devoted
their lives to understand
the roots of some art
can never be replaced
by those amateurs who added that there is renewal of interest in callig-
raphy among the young generation. "It is heart-
instead of learning the ening to see the interest displayed by the
youngsters. But they are not provided with
tact from the craftsman suffiecient opportunities to learn the craft," he
regretted. He lamented at those junior artists
start to copy the craft who copy the exotic works of senior artists and
cheaply sell them as their own to people in vari-
and acrylic for his artworks, besides ,he com- ous art galleries or shops. "It is unfortunate that
bines different pigments to form special colours. artworks of leading artists is copied and openly
Sometimes, he uses golden and silver leaves for sold. My paintings have been copied. But a
heightening impact. He uses earthly tones of good art lover will always find the difference
different colours where blue colour remains between a fake and real painting." ■
prominent in many of his compositions. The cal-
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Aamer Manzoor engrossed in

further expanding LINKdotNET
After receiving an MBA and starting a software development house and WOL,
he pursued the ALM in IT at Harvard University, which was an intense and
extremely enlightening experience not only academically but also profes-
sionally. He was founder of WOL in 1998 and have been with the company
ever since. In 2007, when WOL and Dancom Online successfully merged to
form LINKdotNET Pakistan, he was in the pioneering team that helped bring
this internationally renowned brand to the Pakistani market
Flare: As the Chief commercial Officer of main target to achieve. We also aim to help with smaller cities joining the race. A true
LINKdotNET, what are your aims and objec- bring the broadband revolution to Pakistan by broadband revolution has still eluded us
tives? expanding connectivity throughout the coun- because of infrastructure problems and other
Manzoor: Our objective is to provide effec- try so that under-served and remote areas can technical hurdles. If we truly want broadband
tive Internet services and solutions to individ- also be brought on board to enjoy seamless to reach each and every town, village and city,
uals and businesses throughout the region to connectivity. we shall have to revise many policies and
empower them to pursue and achieve excel- Flare: As compared to other markets, the expand many programs to make this happen.
lence. With the rapidly globalized world, subscriber base for DSL and broadband Flare: Do you think that the state should
Internet is no longer a tool for entertainment Internet in Pakistan is not that large. Why do directly be involved in the usage and promo-
alone; it has become a factor that brings the you think that the broadband revolution still tion of latest technologies, such as DSL and
modern world together and connects the peo- eluded the Pakistani market? broadband? How can the state encourage
ple of the world in unique and necessary Manzoor: First and foremost, we have to adoption of such services while benefitting
ways. Try and imagine reverting back to a recognize that Pakistan is a developing coun- itself as well, and also, would such an
world without Internet connectivity and you try and economy. It would be unfair of us to endorsement encourage foreign investors to
will be able to assess its importance in the compare market trends and demands with invest in Pakistan?
daily lives of billions of people around the other more developed countries and markets. Manzoor: I definitely believe in the state
globe. We have miles to go before we can truly state itself encouraging positive technology trends
We at LINKdotNET aim to bring positive, that we are ready to deploy advanced IT solu- to give a positive outlook, not only to the for-
forward-looking and purpose driven services tions such as broadband to the masses of eign investors but also to local people. There
and products to all of our consumers so that Pakistan, across the board regardless of how are several compelling factors that should urge
they can expand their horizons and become remote their location is. As it is, revolutions the state to promote broadband access and
truly global citizens. Internet solutions and always start from the masses! The demand for adoption. These may include better education
services tailored to the needs and demands of broadband is rising with consumer awareness, initiatives, more efficient running of state-run
corporate and individual clients are also our but the concentration is still in larger cities and endorsed institutions and the rise of e-
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commerce and secure online banking.
Establishment of the Internet lifestyle can also
help the environment by promoting paper-less
work places and better utilization of our natu-
ral resources.
With these factors in mind, it is my belief
that the state can facilitate the spread of broad-
band by establishing a task force with stake-
holders from public and private sector to eval-
uate the current state of broadband deploy-
ment, identifying opportunities, offering tax
incentives to encourage investment in broad-
band infrastructure, researching availability so
that both policymakers and service providers
can determine where to focus their efforts and
reveal gaps in service. Such healthy initiatives
can help make investors feel confident about
expansion, who can then engage the masses to
target demand and deploy broadband in pre-
viously under-served areas. This will also
affect how foreign investors presume long
term business viability in Pakistan.
Flare: LINKdotNET will be facing a
‘world of challenges’ from its competitors.
Do you agree?
Manzoor: I agree on this point, but with
some reservations. LINKdotNET entered the
Pakistani market at a crucial but interesting
time in 2007 and since then it has been an
uphill task to penetrate the market, but I can
proudly say we have done well. There is stiff
competition, but let me remind you that we
have the experience and technological expert-
ise of more than a decade backing our venture,
along with exposure to multiple regional mar-
kets such as Egypt, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and
Bahrain, so we are excited about the chal-
lenges that we may face.
All of us at LINKdotNET believe that with-
out challenges there can be no change for the
better. Challenges in the professional and busi-
ness environment sort out the best from the
rest. By consistently being challenged, we can
come up with newer, better ways to advance
our technologies and ensure that our cus-
tomers get the best and the latest Internet
products and services.
We welcome all challenges and we will
address them by continually reinventing our-
selves, a process which is the foundation of
success.
Flare: Could you detail some of the
achievements by LINKdotNET?
Manzoor: LINKdotNET has achieved many
milestones over the decade and continues to
strive for excellence in many different markets,
including Pakistan. The company has been the
recipient of several awards locally and interna-
tionally. I am proud to state that these acco-
lades come from both from industry insiders
and outsiders. We have recently won the
Brand of the Year award in the ISP/IT catego-
ry in Pakistan. Apart from that, LINKdotNET
was chosen as the ISP of the Year award in the
Egypt region continuously from 1999 till last
year. Microsoft has awarded us several
awards, which include Telecommunication
Partner of the Year (2005), Customer
Experience Award (2004) and Partner of the
Year (2005).
With these factors in mind, it is my belief that the state can
facilitate the spread of broadband by establishing a task
force with stakeholders from public and private sector to
evaluate the current state of broadband deployment,
identifying opportunities, offering tax incentives to
encourage investment in broadband infrastructure,
researching availability so that both policymakers and
service providers can determine where to focus their efforts
and reveal gaps in service
Communication is the key
for social advancement, and
there is no better way to
communicate than through
DSL and broadband.
Whether it is for personal
use or in the professional
capacity, people have come
to understand that DSL is
beneficial on multiple levels.
It is the way the world
communicates and learns
On the certification side, we have CMMi
Level 3 Certification, ISO 9001:2000
Certification. We have Microsoft Certified
Gold Partnership in Microsoft Business
Solutions in Egypt. We are also CISCO
Certified.
Our success can also be judged by the fact
that we have the best strategic partners to help
us provide world class Internet solutions and
products to our consumers. Microsoft is our
strategic partner for application and platform
delivery. Juniper, Alcatel, and Cisco provide
us world class infrastructure. For global con-
nectivity solutions for our clients we have a
partnership with British Telecom Infonet. The
awards and partnerships signify our dedica-
tion to our clients and our commitment to
excellence.
Flare: What incentives does the DSL offer,
especially with regard to affordable rates for
consumers?
Manzoor: Communication is the key for
social advancement, and there is no better way
to communicate than through DSL and broad-
band. Whether it is for personal use or in the
professional capacity, people have come to
understand that DSL is beneficial on multiple
levels. It is the way the world communicates
and learns. Business is done through DSL; it is
responsible for promoting e-commerce, online
banking, round-the-clock connectivity and lit-
erally bringing a world of knowledge to our
Interview
doorsteps.
Pakistan is a new and very exciting market
for DSL and broadband as people are becom-
ing more and more aware of the latest technol-
ogy trends. They are becoming informed con-
sumers and demand choice. This is why as the
people of Pakistan adopt the internet lifestyle,
DSL prices have become increasingly competi-
tive. This has been possible because of the
advent of different players in the IT & ISP
market. Furthermore, it is my belief that
broadband can be made more affordable for
masses by providing them packages tailored
to their needs and Internet requirements.
LINKdotNET has already made sure that there
are different packages for commercial, person-
al and student consumers. Costs can be cut by
competitive package pricing and by doing
simple needs analysis of the consumers to pro-
vide them exactly what they need.
Flare: Is there any new product in the
pipeline?
Manzoor: We are already providing world
class Internet solutions and value added serv-
ices such as Access Services over a multi-serv-
ice PDN (Public Data Network), IP Dial
Access, Dedicated IP Access, Broadband,
Hosting Services, Shared Hosting, Managed
Dedicated Hosting, WiMAX, Wireless &
Mobile Solutions, MPLS Services, and VPNs,
and VSAT Services. We are always researching
and testing new methods to provide best in
class Internet solutions and services to our
consumers and clients.
However, they sky is the limit. Being one of
the top Internet Service Providers in the
region, we definitely have a few other prod-
ucts in the pipeline that will add more value to
the lives of our clients and consumers. We
have already launched several value-added
services in Egypt and the region such as MSN
Arabia and many other online portals and we
will be bringing the same services for our local
consumers as well. Link Development, which
is a sister concern of LINKdotNET, has devel-
oped Facebook CRM, which integrates
Microsoft Dynamics CRM with the Facebook
platform to allow companies to contact cus-
tomers and interact with them on the popular
social networking site. In this fast-paced mar-
ket where businesses are searching new and
innovative ways to communicate with their
clients and target market, such a utility is
bound to bring them satisfactory results.
It is also one of our objectives to build an
in-house development team in Pakistan so
more such products and initiatives can be
taken. Furthermore, we have extensive disas-
ter-recovery solutions for our corporate clients,
which ensure security and availability of their
precious data and records in not one but three
different sites both locally and abroad so that
there is minimum downtime and that their
valuable data is always secure.

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In 2006, Raffles became Apple autho-
rised dealer in Pakistan and
Afghanistan, later on it became Apple
authorised gold service provider. Now,
Raffles is an international brand as it is
being sold in countries like UAE,
Singapore, Malaysia, Magnolia and
Saudi Arabia. It has liaison offices in
UAE, Singapore, Canada and China
affles Private Limited is the first locally
R
assembled original equipment (OEM)
branded computer system. All the com-
puter parts of Raffles are branded and manu-
factured in Asia. The company has over eight
years of experience in manufacturing computer
parts and serving the needs of users with quali-
ty and satisfaction.
Raffles was established in 2000 and formally
launched by Dr Atta-ur-Rehman to have a
locally assembled branded computer system
based on quality, power, performance, reliabili-
ty, backup support, maximum guarantee and
affordability. Now Raffles is an inter-
national brand as it is being sold in
countries like UAE, Singapore,
Malaysia, Magnolia and Saudi Arabia.
It has liaison offices in UAE,
Singapore, Canada and China.
In 2006, Raffles became Apple
authorised dealer in Pakistan and
Afghanistan and then became Apple
authorised gold service provider. Its
mission is to deliver outstanding cus-
tomer value through innovative Apple
products, useful designs, maximum
warranty and superior customer sup-
port throughout in local and interna-
tional marketes. Raffles is also Intel
premier partner, Microsoft named
account partner, Microsoft gold certified part-
ner and HP Tier II partner. After successful
association with Apple, Raffles launched first
US Ambassador to Pakistan
Anne W. Patterson termed
the launch of iRaffles, Apple
Premium reseller store in
Lahore "a landmark of
American investor's confi-
dence in Pakistan”
Apple premium store in Pakistan under the
name iRaffles, inaugurated by Anne W.
Patterson US Ambassador to Pakistan.
In desktops, Apple has iMacs (the ultimate
26 all in one high performance computer); Mac
Lahore: PM Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani gives away the gold medal and Business Man of
the Year Trophy to M. Ibrahim Qureshi Director, Raffles.
Mini is the 6x6 inches
world's smallest desk-
top. Users can use this
computer as portable
machine due to its
small form factor.
MacPro is high per-
formance 8 core Xeon
based machine and
being used by graphics
users with resources
Lahore: US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne W. Patterson inaugurates the iRaffles, Apple
hungry applications. Premium Retail Store, accompanied by Director Operations Raffles System Ibrahim Qureshi.
In notebooks Apple
iRaffles store in Lahore.
has 13" Macbook, 15.4" and 17" Macbook Pro
and the world's thinnest notebook "Macbook
Air" of three pounds only. iPods are the
famous music players by Apple. They are iPod
Shuffle, iPod Nano, Classic and iPod Touch
and iRaffles was the first company in Pakistan
that launched iPod Nano Pink before Valentine
Day in Pakistan with an aggressive price.
From time to time Apple is revolutionising
its operating system and currently the latest
operating system of Apple is working as a
leopard that has come over 300 new features as
compared to its old OS Tiger. One of its fun
features is Time Machine. This feature auto-
matically saves data. For backup, Apple has
now launched Time Capsule. Through time
capsule, users can set up the data backup wire-
lessly meanwhile Apple has been granted
approval for Time Capsule for Pakistan.
Recently, Director iRaffles and Raffles Pvt.
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and business man of the year trophy on out-
standing achievements in the field of IT by
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani.
Due to outstanding leadership in marketing
and expansion in three countries, Raffles was
also awarded with the shield in Vietnam. Due
to continuous efforts for last 10 years, Raffles
has received the Market Expansion Leader
award from Intel Pakistan in November 2007.
For the last three years, Raffles is taking
awards by selling maximum numbers of desk-
top computers and high performance servers in
Pakistan. Besides keeping people acquainted
with latest technologies, Raffles’ task is to open
a chain of Apple Premium Retail stores
throughout the country from Lahore to
Karachi.
Apple brought the personal computer revo-
lution in 1970s with Apple II and reinvented
personal computer in 1980s with Macintosh.
Apple continues to lead the industry in novelty
with its award-winning desktop and notebook
computers, OS X operating system, iLife, and
professional applications. Apple is also spear-
heading the digital music revolution with its
iPod portable music players and iTunes online.
US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne W.
Paterson termed the launch of iRaffles, Apple
Premium reseller store in Lahore "a landmark
of American investor's confidence in Pakistan.”
She added, “The partnership between Apple
and Raffles Systems represents that the two
countries will promote growth and prosperity
in Pakistan. I hope this and other partnerships
between American and Pakistani will go on
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A clipping of news published in The News of November

7, 2008.
and the national economy. Microsoft took
this initiative keeping in mind the hazards
and threats posed by software piracy.
Ameena Saiyid who is the Chairperson of
Anti Counterfeit & Infringement Forum
(ACIF) and Chairperson of IPR
Subcommittee, Overseas Investor's Chamber
of Commerce & Industry and also the
Managing Director of Oxford University
Press appreciated the role of Microsoft in
undertaking an initiative designed to expose
the threats that piracy causes. While making

On one side, Microsoft

Image of News item published in Daily Jang, 07-11-2008.
is investing billion of
dollars in India and on
Bill Gates had never come to Pakistan, then how
other side they are just
he could offer Microsoft City project in Pakistan.
advising us to do more
Afzaal Mirza was just trying to save his job by to curb the pirated
claiming huge investment offer in Pakistan and software in Pakistani
accusing the previous regime. market. The biggest
icrosoft held an interactive work- in the fight against software piracy, copyright

M shop in Islamabad for journalists to

raise awareness on the role of media
infringement and to highlight the value of
genuine software to consumers, businesses
problem lies on
Microsoft side, which
has not a
single project in
Pakistan in IT and
software development.
a presentation on economic impacts of soft-
ware piracy Salman Siddiqui, Genuine
Software Manager, Microsoft Pakistan said,
"Software piracy is a problem world over as
it causes losses of over US$40 billion annual-
ly.
Afzaal Mirza, Citizenship Manager at
Microsoft, highlighted various programs
which Microsoft has under taken in Pakistan
to promote IT education in the deprived seg-
ments of the society. Significantly Afzaal
Mirza's statement about Microsoft Ex. Chief
Bill Gates was the most astonishing for every
Afzaal Mirza, Citizenship Manager, Microsoft, Fariha Shah, Marketing Manager, Microsoft, Ameena Saiyid, Chairperson one. His statement that Bill Gates was ready
ACIF and IPR Salman Siddiqui, Genuine Software Manager, Microsoft, Representative of Ammar Jafri, Project Director, to invest in Pakistan to establish Microsft
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Cities like India was a big surprised for every
one. He claimed while addressing the work-
shop that Mr. Bill Gates came to Pakistan
twice which was against the reality as Bill
Afzaal Mirza may think
heroic about his statement
to save his job in
Microsoft. Actually the US
giant is not doing any
thing but beating drums of
business and investment
in Paksitan.During the last
many years, what Microsoft
has done in Pakistan? As it
was claimed by the compa-
ny to work in some educa-
tional projects is another
futile effort. That is way
the head of Afzaal was
down and he was not clear
about his vision
Gates had never came to Pakistan. So they
never met with former President Pervez
Musharraf or Prime Minister Shoukat Aziz.
It is a mere allegation that they asked Bill
Gates to transfer amount in their account.
Flare Report InsighT
Aziz Afzaal Mirza may not know that;
"A lie can travel halfway around the
world while the truth is still putting on its
shoes"
He might think that he will be making
news with such baseless allegations against
the previous regime but it was not wise
enough to say some thing which is very clear
to every one.
Here, I am referring another famous
English quote about telling lie;
"Walking your talk is a great way to moti-
vate yourself. No one likes to live a lie. Be
honest with yourself, and you will find the
motivation to do what you advise others to
do."
Afzaal Mirza may think heroic about his
statement to save his job in Microsoft.
Actually the US giant is not doing any thing
but beating drums of business and invest-
ment in Paksitan. During the last many years,
what Microsoft has done in Pakistan? As it
was claimed by the company to work in
some educational projects is another futile
effort. That is way the head of Afzaal was
down and he was not clear about his vision.
On one side Microsoft is investing billion of
dollars in India, but they just came to tell us
to do more to protect their software. What
amazing demand it was? They want to tell us
the way to curb pirated soft ware but do not
want to participate in our development proj-
ects. This was very cheap from Microsoft to
blame and claim about investment in
Pakistan. Even if they were asked to pay kick
back in Musharrif Regime, now there is no
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Fake prizes
cheat
cellular
subscribers
PTA has time and again issued advertisements in
newspapers for the awareness of people to avoid
such frauds
heating of innocent mobile phone sub-
C
scribers by trapping them in fake prize
schemes is on the rise in the city of
Peshawar, a number of people have been
deprived of their hard earned money. A number
of persons involved in this fraud call different
mobile phone users and lie that they have won
any company's prize worth Rs 500,000 in a
recently held draw. The fraudster, in order to
fully deceive the person, tell the mobile user the
number inscribed on the back of his mobile SIM,
the information he may collect from mobile
phone company.
In a recent case a
shopkeeper in Qissa
Khawani bazaar was
deprived of Rs 22,000
by the swindlers.
esides, reports about
depriving of Rs 1000
or more by such
caller is a routine
matter these days
"If you are suspicious about the information
then please check the number on the back of
your SIM," the callers use such tactics to entrap
the innocent mobile users. Innocent people
inquired the callers about the procedure for col-
lecting their prize. The caller informed that they
have to load a pre-paid card of Rs 3,000 to a
selected number to process the case.
30 In order to give the fraud a real picture, some
phone calls were made from Gulf countries to
the mobile users, giving him congratulations of
winning the prize. After loading the pre-paid
card of required figure, the caller kept on cheat-
ing on one pretext and other and demanded
more cards. In a recent case a shopkeeper in
Qissa Khawani bazaar was deprived of Rs 22,000
by the swindlers. Besides, reports about depriv-
ing of Rs 1000 or more by such caller is a routine
matter these days. A number of people, cheated
by such callers, when contacted, urged the
authorities to take measures and to arrest the
persons involved in this fraud.
Nisar Ahmad, an official of PTA when contacted
informed that PTA has time and again issued
advertisements in newspapers for the awareness
of people to avoid such frauds. He said that it is
very difficult to trace and arrest such mobile
callers because these people are using unregis-
tered mobile SIMs. The PTA official also urged
people not to give money by loading cards or
any other mean to anyone before getting any-
thing in return. He said PTA is also issuing
directives to mobile companies to block all
unregistered SIMs so the misuse of mobile
phones could be stopped.
Inspector Cyber Crime Wing of FIA, Shahid
Ilyas when asked to comment said that a num-
ber of complaints are being received in this
regard. He said, the Cyber Crime Wing has
recently been set up in Peshawar and so far five
written complaints received four of which were
disposed off. He added in some cases he has
arrested the fraudsters but the crime is com-
poundable. And later, the complainant made
agreement with the accused as a result of which
the culprit is released. He also detected other
cases of Internet crimes. He quoted an example
of a case in which a person was deprived of sev-
eral hundred dollars. Shahid Ilyas asked all
those who have been deceived by these fraud
elements to submit their written complaints to
the FIA, so that action could be taken for recov-
ery of the swindled money and arrest of
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PTA
effectively
monitoring
illegal traffic
ICH is being setup as a
joint project of PTA and
LDI operator for recon-
ciliation of international
telephonic traffic (RITT)
A review meeting was held at Pakistan
Telecommunication Authority (PTA)
Headquarters to review the progress of
establishing international clearing house
(ICH) and technical facility to curb the ille-
gal traffic. The meeting was chaired by
Chairman PTA, Dr Mohammad Yaseen,
and attended by member (finance) PTA
Syed Nasrul Karim A. Ghaznavi, con-
cerned PTA officials and LDI operators.
The participants were briefed about the
performance of existing technical facility to
monitor and block the grey traffic. The
operators expressed their full satisfaction
in the system and its outcome. The
progress of expansion of this system was
also discussed in the meeting. It was
informed to the meeting that the process
for expansion has already been started.
The chairman directed the LDI operators to
complete this process on priority. The
progress of setting up ICH was also dis-
cussed in the meeting. It may be recalled
that ICH is being setup as a joint project of
PTA and LDI operator for reconciliation of
international telephonic traffic (RITT).
Once this system is installed, it will ensure
factual recording of inbound and out-
bound traffic and accrue long term benefits
to government of Pakistan in the form of
remittances worth millions of dollars. It
will also benefit LDI operators.
The meeting was informed that necessary
work is in hand to complete the formalities
regarding setting up of this system. The
chairman directed that this project must be
completed on time. The Chairman further
directed LDI operators to strictly follow
the PTA instructions regarding grey traffic.
He said the legal action will be initiated
against such LDI operators who are found
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India has large and rapidly growing pools of talented people
with much lower incomes than people with similar skills in the
United States. But some experts say the threat to high-end
American jobs is overstated
he sari-clad graphics designer knows noth-
T
ing about American football. But there she is,
putting the finishing touches on an automo-
bile dealership ad tied to the kick off of the NFL
season for a New York newspaper. She goes by
only one name, Vijayalakshmi, and she is the face
of the new global worker. She and her colleagues at
2AdPro Media Solutions, a two-year-old start-up,
create ads for scores of U.S. newspapers at assem-
bly-line speed in this steamy, sun-beaten coastal
city that aims to be a global publishing hub.
Across India, a new, sophisticated outsourcing
industry is emerging, one that requires skills well
beyond those needed for traditional call-centres.
And it extends well beyond publishing work.
"Anything that can be outsourced is being out-
sourced today in India," said Rajdeep Sahrawat,
Vice President of the National Association of
Software Service Companies (Nasscom), an Indian
software industry trade organization that closely
monitors trends in outsourcing.
The emergence of this new outsourcing indus-
try is a cause for anxiety among some American
workers. The liberal think tank Economic Policy
Institute said as many as 18 per cent of all
California jobs — mostly white-collar work — are
candidates for off-shoring. The labour-backed
California Fair Trade Coalition said virtually any
job that uses a computer could be outsourced, and
it argues that U.S. trade laws should be changed to
make it more difficult for companies to send work
overseas.
Imelda Abarca, director of the coalition, said the
Internet increasingly enables near-seamless out-
sourcing of professional work to India, China,
Eastern Europe and other regions, putting more
and more high-paying American jobs at risk.
"Those countries have large and rapidly growing
pools of talented people with much lower incomes
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that want to outsource their marketing work,
believes this new type of outsourcing will eventual-
ly grow to a multibillion-dollar industry.
"There is a talent pool in India beyond engineer-
ing," said Vani Kola, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur
who is managing director of Santa Clara-based
NEA-IndoUS Ventures, which invests in high-end
outsourcing companies in India. "And this talent
pool has never been tapped." Increasingly, Western
companies must turn to countries like India, where
50 per cent of the population is under 25, added
Kola, now based in Bangalore. "The world's work-
force will come from these countries because they
have the masses. They are going to fill the gaps.
Knowledge process outsourcing will change the
role Indians play in the global economy."
Kola sees growth in many directions. "Disney
and DreamWorks have large animation studios in
India," she noted. ''Nobody is saying create the
movie concept here, but part of the process is being
done here." One company Kola backs is PreMedia
Global, a start-up that provides research, writing
and editing services to publishers of U.S. textbooks.
In two-and-a-half-years, PreMedia has grown from
a brother-and-sister operation to a company with
900 employees, 600 of whom are based in Chennai.
Initially, the siblings considered launching a call-
centre operation, said co-founder Kapil
Viswanathan, who studied engineering at Stanford
University. However, they quickly saw that the
nature of outsourcing was changing.
"High-end, knowledge-based services — that's
where the growth is coming from," he said. "We
think this is just the tip of the iceberg." In short
order, Viswanathan and his sister lined up clients
that produce textbooks for schools across the
United States, including California. "A publisher
gives us the detail of the content — what they sub-
mitted to each state — and says, 'You guys develop
than people with similar skills in the United States."
this into a book," he said. "It could be math, it could
But some experts say the threat to high-end
be science, and it could be reading."
American jobs is overstated. India remains "an
"You get push back from some people, 'Those
undergraduate factory," said Raffiq Dossani, a
ads from India, they don't look right,'" said Austin
Stanford University researcher who studies higher
Ryan, vice president of production for Gannett, the
education in the South Asian country. "This limits
nation's largest newspaper publisher and a 2AdPro
the kind of work that can be outsourced to India."
client. Two years ago, it was a tough sell to con-
Whatever its ultimate impact, this next-genera-
vince newspaper executives that someone sitting
tion of offshore work — some call it KPO for
halfway across the globe could produce ads that
The world's workforce will come from developing
countries because they have the masses. They are going
to fill the gaps. Knowledge process outsourcing will
change the role Indians play in the global economy
"knowledge process outsourcing'' — is drawing
are accurate and on-time, said Todd Brownrout,
business from across professional sectors in the
chief marketing officer at 2AdPro, which expects to
United States. These new companies link the
expand from 350 employees to 1,000 next year.
legions of highly trained graduates that India's vast
Now, he added, "We are getting multiple inquires a
college system produces every year to U.S. compa-
day."
nies eager to cut costs.
Sanjiv Gupta, chief executive of Hyderabad-
"A majority of Americans are not even aware of
based Pressmart, which provides Internet technolo-
the type of high-end work being done in India —
gy services to publications, argues this outsourcing
tax filing preparations, medical diagnoses, legal
model can be applied to editorial content. "It's out-
work, financial portfolio analysis." said Pervez
sourcing of creativity," he said. Appert and others,
Sikora, a former U.S. newspaper executive who is
though, think that day will never come. No amount
now chief operating officer for 2AdPro Media
of cultural sensitivity classes can compensate for
Solutions. "The types of services being offered here
direct understanding of local news, they say.
are mind-boggling."
While debate continues over just which
While these highly skilled professionals current-
American jobs may be vulnerable to outsourcing,
ly represent only a thin slice of India's two million
executives like 2AdPro's Sikora acknowledge that
tech and business outsourcing workers, their ranks
the new global economic order is forcing
are growing rapidly, industry experts say.
Americans to reposition their careers. "People have
Nasscom's Sahrawat said the category is too recent
to understand how jobs are changing and start re-
for his organization to track. But Sikora, who said
inventing themselves,'' he said "No one will be able
he's been approached by Silicon Valley companies
to stop this now."

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In 2008, $1.72bn equates to 0.23 per cent of global mobile revenues and
accounts for 0.41 per cent of global advertising spend. By 2013, when Informa
predicts the mobile advertising market to be worth $12.09 bn, it will match up
to 1.29 per cent of the overall mobile market and 2.2 per cent of advertising
revenue across the globe
t is refreshing in an industry so often sent tions show rapid growth admittedly easier to Mobile. As Informa points out in its report

I giddy with hype that the mobile advertis-

ing sector appears broadly to have settled
into a groove of realism and toil. Perhaps it is
simple that the hard numbers make for an
impasse that not even the most optimistic of
outlooks can surmount. Informa Telecoms &
Media calculates that the total mobile adver-
tising market for 2008 will represent just
$1.72 billion; some way less than a third of
the annual advertising budget of Proctor &
Gamble which with an estimated expenditure
of $ six billion this year, says Informa.
In relation to the size of the mobile and
advertising sectors globally, the intersection
they create is small potatoes. In 2008, $1.72
billion equates to 0.23 per cent of global
mobile revenues and accounts for 0.41 per
cent of global advertising expense. By 2013,
when Informa predicts the mobile advertising
market to be worth $12.09 billion, it will
match up to 1.29 per cent of the overall
mobile market and 2.2 per cent of advertising
revenue across the globe. Still, these projec-
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achieve from a lower starting point which
should give some cause for positivism. And it
can certainly be said that the mobile commu-
nity is looking forward to lead. Informa esti-
mates that some 75 per cent of mobile adver-
tising spend this year $1.29 billion will come
Mobile advertisement is a
work in progress and it
seems clear that the empha-
sis must be on collaboration
if the sector is to yield bene-
fits for every member of the
value chain
from mobile companies. The earliest organisa-
tions going into this market are the ones that
are mobile application based, says Jeff
Herrmann, vice president for mobile media at
specialist media measurement house Nielsen
Mobile advertising: Cutting through the hype:
Despite the excitement surrounding the big
brands’ entrance into the mobile advertising
arena, they are likely to contribute only
around $430 million in 2008. If the big brands
do not ramp up their capital in mobile adver-
tising, market growth will be severely ham-
pered over the next five years. While some
big brands are moving into the space, collec-
tively they are convinced. Going back to
Proctor & Gamble by way of an example, it
has set aside $10 million for mobile advertis-
ing that is less than two hundredths of one
per cent of its overall budget.
This illustrates a key point for the mobile
advertising sector, that the big, non-mobile
brands, will not be allocating incremental
budget for mobile campaigns. Rather, the sec-
tor has to convince them to shift budget
already reserved for familiar media TV, print,
billboard and online to the less proven terri-
tory of mobile. Evidence suggests that the
majority of mobile inventory being sold at the
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moment (inventory is a term that describes But the carrier community risks damaging
available advertising space, be it on television the sector as a whole if it seeks to maintain
or in a text message) is outside the operator control over the value chain, with some
portals, reflecting the erosion of walled gar- experts suggesting that they should face up to
dens that has been a key facilitator in the the fact that such control cannot be main-
growth of mobile internet usage. Admob runs tained and that their interests would be best
one of the leading mobile advertising net- served by embracing the collaborative nature
works, serving 3.5 billion text and banner of the sector. The carriers have to be smart
adverts on mobile media each month. Russell and more like media companies. For large,
Buckley, chairing the Mobile Marketing non-mobile sector advertisers, reach is the
Association, is European managing director key. And even if carriers can boast millions of
for the firm which does not serve adverts on subscribers in any given market, they would
carrier inventory. not be supplying service to every member of
The vast majority of our traffic tends to a given demographic. The agencies are really
come from off-portal, says Buckley. We are anxious and eager to spend money on mobile
not missing out on huge volumes by not advertising, says Jeff Herrmann at Nielsen.
working with the operators. Certainly our But, they cannot get the scale that they need.
combined traffic in any of our top five mar- If operators are unable to maximise their own
The uniquely personal nature of the mobile phone -
which is exactly what excites potential advertisers - is
also one of the biggest obstacles they must overcome.
One man’s advert, after all, is another man’s spam
kets would easily beat any single operator, so inventory because mobile advertising is pre-
it is not really going to move the needle for dominantly off-portal, how can they maintain
us if we suddenly start working for them. their stake in the game? One option is for
In monetising their own inventory, some them to act as enablers. For me their best
carriers are employing in-house sales teams, position is as a facilitator of brand contact, for
while others are assigning partners, as compelling cross platform activities, says
Vodafone has done with Yahoo. But if even in Herrmann.
the mobile space third party sales organisa- When you consider the consumer relation-
ship they have, they
will always be in the
process. They have the
cross platform perspec-
tive to offer integrated
campaigns like SMS
tied to a mobile WAP
site, a video or even
location based services.
This has not been fully
developed yet but that
is how they will main-
tain their position of
prominence in the
mobile advertising
market. Another
answer, it appears, lies
in the field of profiling
and measurement.
Henry Jenkins manages
the mobile advertising
activities of carrier
lobby group the GSM
Association. On the
long list of things that
the advertising indus-
try would like opera-
tors to do, says Jenkins,
pretty much everybody
tions are making the most of their sales to agrees that some form of consistent, transpar-
third party publishers and content owners, ent measurement is at the top of that list. We
question marks begin to appear over the role think this is the key enabler that the operators
played by operators in this space and the can deliver working together, an enabler for
security and revenue potential of that role. In the whole ecosystem.
part this will be addressed as the range of for- In February of this year, the GSMA
mats routinely used for mobile advertising announced an initiative in the UK market that
increases. The majority of mobile adverts sees all five carriers Vodafone, Telefonica O2,
today take the form of banners and text links T-Mobile, FT-Orange and Hutchison’s 3 col-
on mobile web pages but there are opportuni- laborating to define common metrics and
ties for in-message adverts, served in text or measurement processes for mobile advertis-
multimedia messages, which are entirely con- ing. The aim of the programme is to outline a
trolled by the operators. range of metrics that will describe the mobile
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audience and measure the effectiveness of
mobile advertising, the GSMA said at the
time.
This is not a simple task, but the GSMA
believes that if big brand advertisers from
outside the mobile sphere could be given con-
sistent, reliable, independently audited fig-
ures like this, they would be far more com-
fortable allocating more of their advertising
budget to mobile. The Association is taking it
upon itself, simply, to prove that mobile
advertising can work.
The burden of proof lies with the opera-
tors, says Jenkins. We need to demonstrate
that operators can work together and we need
to demonstrate that they can do that in a way
that adds value to the broader industry. If we
achieve that, we are building credibility, a
trusted role for operators. Jenkins says that
response from all stakeholders in the UK has
been favourable.
The advertisers are interested, the agencies
that plan and manage their expense and the
operators themselves all see real value in the
project. But still, it is a slow process. The
technical challenges involved in working with
all of the operators, processing huge amounts
of data from multiple sources are significant
to say the least, he says. “It’s a bit more time
consuming than we’d like,” he offers, by way
of an understatement.
A further problem is that this initiative is
patently not a money making exercise. The
point of the exercise is not to maximise the
value of the metrics themselves, the GSMA
says, but to grow the mobile advertising
industry. And when operators are prioritising
their activities, they tend to put the ones that
generate revenue at the top, and the ones that
do not at the bottom.
“It’s one thing to go into an operator and
say to the IT department, ‘I need this resource
to change this facility’ in a system if that
change brings a five per cent uplift in rev-
enue. It’s very different when you’re saying
‘here’s a strategic initiative that we believe is
incredibly important. There isn’t an immedi-
ate revenue uptake, we’re doing this because
it’s important for the broader industry, we’ll
see benefit in other ways further down the
line’. It is changing the way in which a lot of
them work,” he says.
The GSMA’s deadline is fast looming; the
group pledged to complete its proof of con-
cept by the end of 2008. It is still mulling over
the timelines in terms of commercial launch.
And even commercial launch does not signal
a conclusion. Just as well as advertisers want
to reach consumers irrespective of their
choice of carrier, so too do they want to con-
tact end users in multiple countries. A reli-
able system of metrics is no good if it is
restricted to just one market. Which is why
the UK - home to the biggest international
players of the West was chosen as the guinea
pig market.
If the GSMA is working on similar projects
in other markets, then it is remaining tight-
lipped on the subject. “Meaningful conversa-
tions” are ongoing, but that is as far as Henry
Jenkins is willing to go. “Regional would be
an achievement,” he says. “Global would be
even better. We could characterise our ambi-
tion by saying we need to create a global level
of consistency in terms of methodology, what
we measure, what are the definitions and how 37
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we do it.” You only need to stop and they would install the mobile advertising
think about that for a minute before
In contrast with the world situation, application on their handset if they were
you realise just how significant a chal- mobile advertising is the backbone of given 100 free minutes in return.”
lenge it represents.
For Russell Buckley, wearing both
print and electronic media in Pakistan According to Neidhardt, more than half,
52 per cent, said they would take the
his Admob and MMA hats, the meas- which was a dying horse in early 90s application for 100 minutes. But, he says,
urement initiative is a winner. “Any “Astonishingly, 30 per cent said they
more clarification we can give in terms of excites potential advertisers - is also one of would install it just because it was fun. They
measuring people or unique users is great. the biggest obstacles they must overcome. didn’t even want the free minutes.” It makes
One of the issues that we have as a company One man’s advert, after all, is another man’s for a warming anecdote, perhaps, but the
like Admob is that very often our advertisers spam. reality is that consumers’ feelings about
want to target unique users. Very often we do So is there a concern that operators might mobile advertising will only really become
not have that data, and that is held by the be persuaded into offering up information to clear when mobile advertising takes off. So it
operator.” advertisers that would make end users is the large consumer brands whose view of
The collaboration between operators on uncomfortable? Henry Jenkins does not think the whole sector is most crucially important
measurement raises an interesting question of so. “Operators’ core business is to provide in the immediate term. If they can be con-
whether they should unite to sell their own communication services to their customers vinced by collaborative initiatives like that
inventory; after all advertisers do not meas- and they’re not going to do anything that being run by the GSMA, then perhaps the sec-
ure their target markets by carrier selection. provides a threat to that customer relation- tor will hit the blue sky figures that some of
In all likelihood this remains some way off, ship.” its more upbeat proponents are wont to pro-
but it may turn out to be necessary for opera- He even goes so far as to predict that oper- claim.
tors to maximise their own revenues. ators will provide services to end users Think the world situation is how much
Jeff Herrmann suggests that the greatest around managing their privacy. “I do believe different from Pakistan, where at least 25 per
innovation in the mobile advertising supply- that you will increasingly see operators devel- cent advertising is about mobile. When ever
side sector is being done in the area of cus- oping capabilities around managing permis- you tune a TV channel or look at newspapers
tomer profiling. And for all the hard graft sion. on front page which is very costly, you will
around measurement and consumer identifi- In any case, Smaato’s Harald Neidhardt find the Mobile ad saying some thing. Some
cation that is being undertaken, it must be offers up some optimism as regards users’ media experts say that telecom industry is the
remembered that mobile advertising as a con- willingness to engage with mobile advertis- key a revival of media in Pakistan which was
cept is itself a tricky sell where end users are ing. Smaato did a trial with Swisscom that dying horse in early 90s. So, what you say
concerned. The uniquely personal nature of placed audio adverts before and after voice about this situation….with slowing trend in
the mobile phone - which is exactly what calls. He explains: “We asked consumers if telecom in Pakistan, you may expect more.

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Analysts are warning that operators will require significant
shifts in strategy in order to survive as the industry evolves
ixed and mobile carriers in mature markets
F must transform themselves into “IT and
network factories” and support new serv-
ices that are all but unrelated to telecoms in order
to survive in the digital age, according to indus-
try analyst Gartner. The warning comes with the
prediction that, by 2012, Gartner expects around
half of the 20 largest carriers worldwide to be of-
fering new services only minimally related to
telecommunications.
Furthermore, leading carriers in developed
markets are forecast to be deriving at least 15 per
cent of their revenue from non-traditional
sources in four years’ time, as they seek to com-
bat declining voice revenues. In order to find
new growth, carriers will need to develop a wide
range of new digital services and will increas-
ingly find themselves competing on a broader
playing field; doing battle with Internet compa-
nies such as Google, as well as equipment
providers, such as Nokia.
But perhaps what should be of the greatest
concern to carriers is Gartner’s expectation that
they will have to relinquish exclusive control of
the customer data used to support new person-
alised digital services. Unrivalled access to such
data has long been viewed as a key strength for
operators going forward. To their advantage,
however, Gartner believes carriers will benefit in
three main business aspects: Strong market intel-
ligence; deep integration of system and data; and
synergies between services.
“The evolution of networking and IT Technol-
ogy to world online IT and the digital age creates
signification opportunities for communication
service providers (CSPS) but also poses huge
challenges,” said Jean Claude delcroix, research
vice president at Gartner. “Opportunities for new
Farooq Malik
Telepedia
digital services slows. “For the last ten years mobile operators
range from ex- have been building strategies, platforms and
tended trans- services for the delivery of new non-voice serv-
mission ices which they hope will compensate for the in-
services to con- evitable decline in voice revenues,” said Mark
tent services Newman, chief research officer at Informa. “But
and IT serv- it’s been tough going and non-SMS data rev-
ices. The main enues have been disappointing.”
challenges will In its report, Future Mobile Operator Business
be of much Models; Broadband, Partnerships, Wholesale and
more competi- Mobile 2.0, Informa notes that the focus is mov-
tive environ- ing away from a limited number of services pro-
ment and vided by the operator to interest access and
much more in- operators’ non-SMS data revenue base is in the
tense use of IT process of shifting from services to basic access.
in the delivery The services users are beginning to use their mo-
of services by biles are provided by internet players rather than
CSPS.” Dell mobile operators.
Croix warned As such, the analyst expects that mobile oper-
that fixed op- ators can look forward to a period of growth in
erators will mobile broadband connectivity. But to capitalise
on this opportunity, opera-
tors need to invest heavily
“With prices of mobile data services and in new high-capacity net-
devices too high for mass usage today, transition to becoming ISPs
works. Effectively marking a
and to avoid the fate of
carriers will need to deliver new mobile fixed-network ISPs, mobile
operators will then either
digital services that require less band- need to partner with Inter-
width but offer good value for money, net firms and share rev-
enues and/or develop a
such as download and streaming serv- smart-pipe strategy. This in-
volves ‘exposing’ different
ices for music, micro payments and parts of their networks to
third party service providers
ticket ordering” and monetising access to
them.
need to move fast to offer new content, video and Advertising is touch as a lucrative new rev-
advertising services and application services in enue stream which would complement an inter-
order to offset the decline in their voice revenues. net access strategy but Informa does not believe
He estimates that fixed carriers have less than that it will translate into a significant operator
five years to come up with a new plan or face revenue stream within the next five years.
being relegated to utility bandwidth providers. In its report, Future Operator business mod-
Mobile operators have a little more time, he els, Informa said that, at the same time as they
suggested, with next generation mobile technolo- pursue this strategy, mobile operators will need
gies such as LTE and 4G in general affecting the to continue to seek ways to reduce opex levels as
market progressively from 2010 to 2015. With does the migration to all-IP infrastructures.
prices of mobile data services and devices too “But there is a growing sense - recognition –
high for mass usage today, carriers will need to that mobile operators cannot make best use of
deliver new mobile digital services that require the opportunities presented to them with next
less bandwidth but offer good value for money, generation networks and technologies without
such as download and streaming services for withdrawing from some parts of the value
music, micro payments and ticket ordering, Del- chain.” Said Informa, adding that operators will
croix said. have to get used to: “partnering with companies
Gartner’s research echoes a report released that they may view as their competitors and be-
earlier this year by Informa Telecoms & Media, coming learner and meaner businesses able to
which added that even operators in emerging compete in an internet age.”

markets will have to embrace new ways of run-
ning their business when growth inevitably
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T
he risk of
spam and responsible for a
viruses that rise in spam from
attack mobile 0.5 per cent of traf-
devices is set to fic to 6 per cent
rise, says a report. over the last 12
Security experts months.
suggest current "People should
risks are small, and start to exercise that
that attacks will same caution with
take the same form their mobile devices
as PC spam and that they do today
scams. End-user on their PC; think
protection like anti- twice before run-
virus software is ning any attachment
not yet mature in from someone you
the mobile market, don't know, check
so the issue is being your bill on a regu-
addressed by the lar basis, and
network operators. ensure your
Mobile users are Bluetooth connec-
urged to employ the tion is not set in
same safe behav- discoverable mode.”
iours familiar from Mikko
PCs to reduce risks. Hypponen, chief
The annual research officer at
Emerging Cyber F-Secure, said sta-
Threats Report from tistics it had gath-
the Georgia ered about mobile
Institute of Just like the first PC viruses came across as screensavers, in viruses suggested
Technology there were about
the mobile instance they came across as executable files.
Information 400 in circulation.
Security Centre No-one was ever sending executable files themselves so it was "The growth rate
(GTISC) has identi- easy to detect and block them is slowing," he says.
fied mobile devices "This is because the
as particularly vul- cutable files themselves so it was easy mobile vendors are
nerable platform. to detect and block that. awake and are installing better built-in
It said that as more and more people "But in the last four months, the security in their new phone models."
adopt smartphones, more applications majority of viruses we now see are of a "We haven't seen much mobile mal-
will allow financial and payment infra- new type that either masquerade as an ware that would use exploits to target
structure that employ them, and the MP3 file, a picture file, or a media file." vulnerabilities on mobile phones to
availability of such sensitive data will Adaptive Mobile has identified one gain access. Almost all of them instead
prove to be a draw for cyber-criminals. particular virus called Beselo that rely on users installing the mal-ware
The growth of mobile spam and themselves. This could change."
viruses has been reminiscent of the Up to now, mobile security has
early days of PC spam and scam, says
People should start to largely been in the hands of the net-
Simeon Coney of Adaptive Mobile, a exercise that same work operators, who have taken a very
firm that tracks mal-ware and provides pro-active stance to security for their
security software for mobile firms.
caution with their mobile users. But the report instead suggests
"One of common types we see now runs devices that they do that co-operation between operators,
amok on the Symbian platform. These manufacturers and application devel-
viruses work their way through the
today on their PC; think opers will be necessary.
contact book, sending themselves out twice before running any The report lauds open-source mobile
to every subscriber who has been called operating systems like Google's
or has called that handset."
attachment from Android, which will make it easier for
Mr Coney says that network opera- someone you don't application developers to develop
tors receive 100,000 virus incidences a robust security.
know, check your bill on
day, nearly a 50 per cent rise on last The average life-cycle of mobile
year. However, most subscribers are a regular basis, and devices is just two years - compared to
not infected - in part because mobile ensure your Bluetooth 10 years for a PC - so developing secu-
viruses are comparatively unsophisti- rity infrastructure for mobiles will hap-
cated at present. "The first generation connection is not set in pen quickly.
of these was fairly easy for mobile discoverable mode "Because the mobile communications
operators to detect." field is evolving so quickly, it presents
"Just like the first PC viruses came spreads via MMS or by searching for a unique opportunity to design security
across as screensavers, in the mobile nearby Bluetooth devices - a true "air- properly - an opportunity we missed
instance they came across as executable borne virus". with the PC," says the GTISC's Patrick
files. No-one was ever sending exe- For a typical network operator, they Traynor in the report.

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All malicious applications can be executed in the
background, which means they are invisible on the
phone screen and to the user
dam Gowdiak, who operates in a secu-
A
rity research firm, Security Exploration,
claims to have discovered a bug that
affects around 140 different models of Nokia
phones using the symbian S40 operating sys-
tem. The proliferation of the latest version of
Sun’s java ME software in which, he said, bugs
reside, the number of vulnerable devices could
run to much higher, including other makes and
models of handset.
Analysts at Finish security firm F-Secure
commented: “if it works as advertised, this vul-
nerability could affect more than a hundred
million mobile phones. This vulnerability is
reported to enable attacker to be able to execute
arbitrary code on target phones.”
Gowdiak claims the mobile java vulnerabili-
ties allow hackers to completely bypass securi-
ty restrictions and install malicious applications
on victim’s device, without his or her knowl-
edge. However, the security analysts have
drawn fire over his strategy for raising aware-
ness over the bugs. While he has not made the
information publicly available for free, he is
offering a 178 page technical report, including a
proof of concept code, for the sum of €20,000.
Neither Gowdiak nor Nokia would com-
ment on whether the Finish firm has bought his
research and Nokia has not responded to calls
for comment on the allegations. The hacker
claimed to achieve a list of feats on vulnerable
Softbank makes
diamond sets for
feverishs
or those who are not feeling the global
F economic crisis - and not content just to
wear diamond earrings - a Japanese com-
pany has recently unveiled a line of mobile
telephones encrusted with diamonds.
Japan's Softbank Mobile said it would sell
10 of the phones, each studded with 537 dia-
monds of 18.34 carats from Tiffany & Co. The
"Softbank 823SH Tiffany" phone will sell for
around $13,265. The phone has a top that flips
open to a display also designed by the luxury
New York Jeweller.
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devices without owner’s knowledge or consent;
including SMS, MMS, WAP and PUSH mes-
sage sending, establishing arbitrary phone calls
and internet connections, full read and write
access to the files stored on device, audio and
video stream recording, full access to the con-
tacts database, access to the SIM card, and
backdoor application installation on the phone
with network operator for manufacturers privi-
leges.
Yahoo is attempting to head
privacy advocates off at the
pass with a layered opt in
service that lets users
decide how much informa-
tion they want to share and
the option to delete or mod-
ify location history
Gowdiak hints that the hack is achieved by
sending a specially crafted sequence of mes-
sages to a given Nokia phone and likens the
attack to the more familiar threats faced by PC
users. All malicious applications can be execut-
ed in the background, which means they are
invisible on the phone screen and to the user,
Gowdiak claimed.
While S40 itself is not a multitasking OS,
which means applications cannot be executed
in the background. Multitasking is a feature of
the java virtual Machine used on selected
Nokia S40 devices. “We verified that it is possi-
ble to run java applications in parallel on cer-
Earlier this year Softbank rival NTT
DoCoMo Inc. launched a cell phone designed
by Italian brand Prada. Fellow designer Gucci
also started a website for Gucci goods accessi-
ble only by Japanese mobile phones.
Meanwhile, Softbank Corp. said its operating
profit for the second quarter reached a record
high on cost cuts as
the iPhone pulled in
more mobile phone
subscribers. The
Internet and telecom
company upgraded
its annual operating
profit forecast on the
back of its solid per-
formance, even
though sales
slumped.
The company's
mobile phone carrier
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Gowdiak also revealed that he had investigated
the security of Google’s android platform but
hinted, as the operating system is still in devel-
opment. “Developers would be given proper
time to fix any issues prior to the official prod-
uct release.”
But, GPS-functionality and geo-awareness
in applications seems to be a contentious issue
at present, with privacy advocates stirring
media into frenzy over the potential intrusive-
ness of such technologies. Web giant Yahoo
recently caught flack more typically reserved
for alleged enemy of privacy, Google, as it
announced the general availability of location
mapping service Fire Eagle.
Fire Eagle allows developers to create appli-
cations that are ‘geo-aware’-enabling web,
mobile or desktop applications to update a
user’s location automatically. The platform dif-
fers from existing geo-aware services by pass-
ing the information along to all other sites in
the Fire Eagle network. So all the web services
a user subscribes to, know where he or she is at
all times.
Yahoo is attempting to head privacy advo-
cates off at the pass with a layered opt in serv-
ice that lets users decide how much informa-
tion they want to share and the option to delete
or modify location history. Yahoo is not yet
planning to use Fire Eagle in its own applica-
tions. The firm is likely to wait it out to see if
Fire Eagle picks up a critical mass before com-
mitting to it itself. After all, some are still scep-
tical that location based services are the next
big thing.

benefited from the July launch in Japan of
Apple Computer's iPhone 3G, allowing
Softbank to attract more customers than its
rivals NTT DoCoMo and KDDI's "au" service.
Softbank president Masayoshi Son, one of
Japan's richest people, said he used an iPhone
every day. "It's useful, and the more I use it the
better I can understand its strong points."
Son said the company, which holds sizable
shares in major Internet companies in Asia,
including China's Alibaba, aims to further
expand its broadband operations in the region.
But Softbank declared its revenue fell as lower
costs for handsets offset the solid performance
of Internet units.
The company did not offer forecasts for
annual sales, saying that mobile handset sales
fluctuate on too many factors. It also refrained
from issuing a forecast for annual net profit,
citing the volatility of its securities holdings,
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Darkmarket is a one-stop shop for the online
criminal. You can go to the forum and engage in
criminal activity quite freely. You can buy any
product you want, you can sell any product you
want.
website used by criminals to buy and
A sell credit card details and bank log-
ins has been shut down after a police
operation, the BBC has learned.
International forum Darkmarket ran for
three years and led to fraud totalling millions
of pounds. Nearly 60 people connected with
the site have been arrested in cities including
London and Manchester as well as in
Germany, Turkey and the US. The FBI spent
two years gathering evidence after infiltrating
the site.
The Serious Organised Crime Agency
(SOCA), which has been leading the UK
investigation, said it was "a one-stop shop"
for criminals. The arrests were made after
computer experts, including some former
hackers, followed electronic trails left by site
users. A total of 11 people were arrested in
the UK. Other then this London and
Manchester, raids took place in Leicester,
Humberside and South Yorkshire.
A total of 11 people
were arrested in the
UK. Other then this-
London and Man-
chester, raids took
place in Leicester,
Humberside and
South Yorkshire
Corporate cards Darkmarket was strictly
invitation-only and gave criminals access to a
wide range of valuable personal information.
The data held on the magnetic strip of an
ordinary credit card was available to buy for
as little as one pound. Most prized were
corporate credit cards belonging to frequent
business travellers. Soca deputy director
Sharon Lemon said these were highly sought
after because they could be used by criminals
all over the world to spend large sums
without arousing suspicion.
She stressed that online fraud of this kind
was not a "victimless crime" and involved
criminals of all levels of sophistication. "They
are taking someone else's money. These aren't
geeks we're talking about. These are serious
and organised criminals.
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She said there were 2,000 users registered
on Darkmarket, but many of those were not
unique because one individual could go by a
number of online aliases.
BBC News website technology reporter
Mark Ward said: "The most serious
underground markets operate on an
invitation-only basis. Getting invited involves
building up and maintaining a reputation as
an honest criminal on other public places."
He said the information the police and FBI
would gather as a result of the raid on
Darkmarket would probably lead them to
many more underground forums.
Mrs Lemon told that one individual had
spent £250,000 on personal data in just six
weeks. "Had he realised the full potential of
the information he had, he could have
obtained up to £10m."

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ARPDefender is a good example. It is a
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if not for the fact that it costs almost £300 and,
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safe. This does not apply to larger business net-
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that a rogue employee (or someone with access
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and the software monitor XArp is another.
The big security companies have little to
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tag if you have a large network to protect.
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are any suspiciously new devices connected to
your network;
3. Increase the security settings and you have
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can click View > Advanced for details of what is
going on; and
4. XArp works across our network on XP
and Vista systems. It can not stop ARP attacks,
but you will be warned immediately if it detects
one.
Three recommended network defences are:
AntiARP is a Chinese programme that claims to
be a 'professional defence' against ARP spoofing
and attacks. The site gives little information, but
the programme itself may be worth a look;
Capsa alerts you to a sudden flurry of ARP re-
quests, or that you have had more ARP replies
than requests. Useful, but neither necessarily in-
dicates an attack; and ARP attacks are only one
way to intercept traffic. A hacker could also use
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n the Musharraf regime we have been calling responsibilities from next month. Banglalink is an in investment matters of the company.

I the telecom growth artificial and controversial,

when no one was ready to accept this hard core
realty. Musharraf, Shoukat Aziz and Shahzada
Orascom company working in Bangladesh. A sen-
ior official of Mobilink told "Flare" that Zouhair
had resigned as CEO of the company which was
Mr Rashid Khan joined Banglalink on July 20,
2006 as Managing Director and Chief Executive
Officer. Prior to joining Banglalink, he was the
Alam (Ex- Chairman PTA) were claiming about the approved. He will be appointed in company head- Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial
massive growth in telecom sector at every forum. quarters in Egypt as Chief Executive Officer of a Officer of Mobilink, a subsidiary of Orascom
Within one year of new government, nothing is new project. Sources told that the company was in Telecom Holdings (OTH), the global telecom
there to support the prior claims of telecom’s tow- crises from one year as the government has closed group. He is a senior member of the Group's man-
ering growth. more than three million illegal SIMs. The move to agement team who played a key role in the robust
Last year CEO of Ufone Mubashar Naqvi and growth of Mobilink's subscriber base from one mil-
The Company is in
crisis for the last one
year as government has
closed over three million
illegal SIMs. The move to
close these SIMs is still
continuing and Mobilink,
as the leading illegal
SIMs-provider has lost
both, revenue and
Mr Rashid Khan, CEO Mobilink. customers Zouhair A. Khaliq, Ex-CEO Mobilink
the CEO of Warid Telecom Hamid Farooq resigned lion to 17 million in a short span of three years.
from there positions. As the news of booming tele- close illegal and unregistered SIMs is still going on, Mr Khan brings vast management experience
com bubble spread around , it propagated a wave Mobilink as the leading illegal SIM-provider has in telecommunications, IT and other technologies
of disbelief about the telecom growth. In 2007, lost not only a big part of of its revenue but also its to this country. For the last 12 years he held several
Warid also sold its 30 per cent shares to Singtel, customers. management positions within the cellular business
which raised concerns in the market in the emerging mar-
telecom industry. And now, kets. For almost 15 years, he
President and CEO of worked for various interna-
Mobilink Zouhair A. Khaliq tional companies such as
is moved to Orascom Intel's subsidiary, Chips &
Headquarters in Egypt. It is Technologies and a number
believed that Mobilink has of start ups in Silicon Valley
grown smoothly with the where he acquired extensive
leadership of Zouhair A. working experience in
Khaliq, the CEO and co- developed markets.
Founder of Mobilink According to Orascom
Pakistan. He joined the sources Umer Rashid is also
Mobilink in 2003. A char- leaving from Banglalink and
tered accountant from the returning back to Mobilink
UK, Zouhair has over 22 as CFO.
years of experience in top OTH was established in
level management. The strongest man in Mobilink 1998 and has grown to become a major player in
was removed from the management in no time. The sources disclosed the telecommunication market. OTH is considered
According to the sources, Rashid Khan, the that Etisalat and among the largest and most diversified network
CEO of Banglalink Bangladesh, will take over the operators in the Middle East, Africa, and South
Vodafone are interested
in purchasing Orascom
which is losing its
business in this part of
the world. Mobilink
losing its market share
with competition in the
telecom sector, Mobilink
high officials are no more
interested to invest in the
company
Zouhair Khaliq has played a key role in lifting
Mobilink to the new heights of success during the
last five years. His new assignment is more chal-
lenging as he will be the focal person for Orascom
The News publishes this news in its issue of November
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Asia; and acquired in early 2008 a license to oper-
ate mobile services in North Korea. OTH operates
GSM networks in Algeria (Djezzy), Pakistan
(Mobilink), Egypt (Mobinil), Tunisia (Tunisiana),
Bangladesh (Banglalink) and Zimbabwe (Telecel
Zimbabwe). OTH had exceeded 74 million sub-
scribers as of March 2008. In Pakistan, the Pakistan
Mobile communications Ltd (Mobilink) started its
operations in 1994 and, until early 2001, had a mar-
ket share of 40 per cent. In April 2001, OTH took
over management control of the company but now
the situation is changing rapidly. The strongest
telecom company’s future is dark in Pakistan.
With the saturation of telecom sector, they are
packing their projects in Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Orascom is selling Banglalink and talks are under-
Egyptian entrepreneur Naguib O. Sawiris,
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of
Orascom Telecom Holding.
way with a foreign telecom player. The sources dis-
closed that Etisalat and Vodafone are interested in
purchasing Orascom which is losing its business in
this part of the world. Mobilink losing its market
share and competition in the telecom sector.
Mobilink high officials are no more interested to
invest in the sector. Sources told that not only
Mobilink is losing its customers but also linkdotnet,
which is not successful in fulfilling the expectation.
In the previous regime this group was very close to
Musharraf and General Alam, former chairman
PTA. They made back door deals to do what they
want and earn from the market. High rates and
overcharging with poor service quality was report-
ed again and again, but all was in vain. In 2004,
PTA fined Mobilink Rs 60 million for poor service
quality which was an eye wash. So they continued
their network expansion with illegal SIMs. Over
three million SIMs were issued without proper
documentation, and caused serious security threats
to the national integrity.
As we have published earlier, Orascom and its
owner Mr Naguib Sawiris has close ties with Israel,
they are moving their business in Israel to strength-
en the economy of that country. Orascom, which
was once considered the biggest group in the tele-
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Daily Jung publishes the news on November 8, 2008.
Image of article published in Flare April issue
regarding
corruption of Ex-Chairman PTA, Maj-Gen (Retd)
Shahzada Alam Malik.
com sector, is now on the way of Milicom which
shifted its business from Pakistan in 2006. Milicom
International Cellular is a mobile phone network
provider in America, Africa and Asia. Based in
Luxembourg, the company provides mobile servic-
es in 16 countries. When the company find it hard
to survive in Pakistani emerging market, it sold its
According to PTA report, Mobilink share in the market
has declined from 44% in March 2007 to 39% in March
2008. Although the company has added 7.6 million new
users during the last one year, the slowing market has
negatively affected the company
shares and move to another country.
Another eye opening fact is the market share of
Mobilink which is declining sharply. According to
PTA report, market share of any company is an
important tool to gauge the level of competition in
any sector of the economy. It helps the regulatory
authority to act as a leveler to promote investment
friendly environment. It also gives a chance to forti-
fy the weak areas of the sector. Markers shares of
the cellular mobile operators indicates that market
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Daily Jinnah prints the newsof Zouhair A. Khalik’s replace-
ment from its own point of view on November 8, 2008.
is moving towards perfect competition, where the
share of major operators are declining and new
entrants are able to grab more shares in the market.
According to PTA report Mobilink share in the
market has declined from 44 per cent in March
2007 to 39 per cent in March 2008. Although the
company has added 7.6 million new users during
the last one year, the slowing market has negative-
ly affected the company. The good signs are only
shown by Telenor Pakistan which is heading, while
Ufone shares are still 20 per cent as was in March
2007. Zong also has good prospects with expand-
ing network coverage and market shares. In the
last one year Zong has grown greatly from 1.9 per
cent market share to 2.6 per cent shares.
On one side the government and security agen-
cies are pushing hard to stop the sales of illegal
SIMs and on the other side business market are
declining. This crisis will be worsening with the
passage of time; it has badly disturbed the
Orascom management to think again and again
before moving ahead with other business solutions.
As Etisalat has already entered in Pakistani market
and they have a big competition with Mobilink so
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Karachi: Imran Khalid Mahmood, Country GM Nokia and Khurram Pradhan, Product Manager Nokia
with N96 at its launching ceremony
Most advanced multimedia computer optimized
for entertainment now available for Pakistani
consumers
onsumers no longer need to be tied
C to their desks or laptops to access the
latest entertainment online – whether
it is famous and familiar TV channels,
major entertainment brands or up-to-the-
minute user generated content. The latest
converged mobile devices come packed
with high-speed connectivity features, add
this to the increased availability of 3G and
other high speed mobile networks and
mobile devices are offering compelling
viewing experiences on the move. So much
so that the number of mobile TV and video
users is expected to grow to 462 million by
Karachi: Models posing with N96 mobile at the
launching ceremony.
2012.
Nokia unveiled the Nokia N96 in
Pakistan on October 24, 2008 with a large
2.8” screen, 16 gigabytes of internal memo-
ry and support for high-quality videos in a
wide range of formats, the dual-slide Nokia
N96 represents an exciting new chapter in
mobile media.
“In 2007, the Nokia N95 became an icon
of convergence of Internet and mobility.
With over 7 million units sold to date, the
The Nokia Video Center
offers one place to
discover and access a
variety of mobile con-
tent ranging from movie
trailers and comedy to
news from world-leading
content brands such as
YouTube, Reuters, and
Sony Pictures
N95 has changed the way people use their
mobile device. The Nokia N96 we intro-
duced today builds on the success of N95,
further enhancing the experience,” says
Imran Mahmood Country General Manager,
Nokia Pakistan at a glittering event venue
packed with top celebrities of the country.
Flare Report Event
“Through the power of the Internet, video
and TV are becoming even more prevalent
in people’s lives. With its large, bright
screen, and a range of high-speed connec-
tivity options and the enhanced Nokia
Video Center, the new Nokia N96 is a per-
sonal window to entertainment.”
Accessing internet videos is quick and
simple. The Nokia N96 supports common
video formats including MPEG-4, Windows
Media Video and Flash Video, making
favorite videos easy to view. Transferring
and accessing videos is even faster with the
high-speed USB 2.0 connection and WLAN
and HSDPA support. In select markets, the
integrated DVB-H receiver offers live
broadcast TV with an automatically updat-
ing program guide. The massive memory
can store up to 40 hours of video content.
The storage capacity of the Nokia N96 can
even be further expanded with an optional
microSD card, such as the new Nokia 8GB
microSDHC Card MU-43 which increases
the available memory of the Nokia N96 to a
total of 24 GB. For added convenience, the
Nokia N96 features a ‘kickstand’ on the
back cover that allows for hands-free view-
ing.
The press launch event of Nokia N96
also featured a special session by Khurram
Pradhan, product manager, Nokia Pakistan
in which he described the device as, “N96
is high performance multimedia computer
that delivers unparallel connected multime-
dia experiences by combining the latest
technologies with stylish design and ease of
use”.
The Nokia Video Center offers one place
to discover and access a variety of mobile
content ranging from movie trailers and
comedy to news from world-leading con-
tent brands such as YouTube, Reuters, and
Sony Pictures. The catalogue of internet
video feeds is continually expanded with
more regional and country specific content.
For a superb music experience, the
Nokia N96 features media keys, a 3.5 mm
headphone connector and built-in 3D stereo
speakers. The Nokia Maps application
offers richer maps with urban details and
satellite views and has upgrade options
such as City Guides, turn-by-turn pedestri-
an mode and voice-guided car navigation.
The Nokia N96 boasts a 5 megapixel
camera with Carl Zeiss optics, flash and
video light. It allows DVD-like quality
video capture at 30 frames per second. The
Nokia N96 naturally supports the Ovi fami-
ly of Nokia internet services, including
maps, music, media sharing and more. This
is indeed the beginning of a new era in the
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elenor had sponsored a high-profile

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seminar along with other telecom oper-
ators on 3G. The aim of this workshop
was to create media awareness on what new
technologies will be applied for 3G and what
improvements have been made by the indus-
try on MNP.
Cellular companies have asked Pakistan
Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to let
only existing operators participate in the auc-
tion of third generation (3G) services in
Pakistan, which will make their business
more viable and they will stay here for a
longer period.
The PTA is currently developing a docu-
ment for 3G Information Memorandum the
auction would be held probably by next year.
“We have proposed the PTA that new
players should not be allowed to participate
in the auction of 3G services,” a Telenor’s
representative said at a media workshop
organised by the company. On mobile num-
ber portability (MNP), Nauman
Arshad Manager MNP told the
participants of the workshop that
the completion of porting process
Auction of 3G
decreased from four days to two
and a half day in prepaid tele-
phone numbers but the operators
services by next year
were still unable to reduce time
from 10 to 14 days for comple- “We have proposed the PTA that new players should in Pakistan.”
tion of the process in post-paid
cell connections. “We are still
working on it to reduce time in
case of post-paid services.”
Telenor Executive Vice President Irfan
Wahab Khan said economies of scales
increased manifold, resulting in the reduction
of tariff and prices of telecom services as well
as equipments. He said revenue share of
value-added services is less than 10 per cent
nationwide.
“3G services will bring investment in
Pakistan and create job opportunities,” he
added that the mobile operators need support
of the government in existing conditions
when taxes increased to 21 per cent on mobile
not be allowed to participate in the auction
of 3G services:” Telenor Official
services. On MNP, he said that it was less
than 5 per cent in the US compared to total
Technically, the main
difference between 3G and 2G
networks is the speed by
which data can be sent and
received. The 3G network can
send data up to 40 times
higher speed than earlier
digital networks
cell subscribers. In the country, there is not
much awareness on MNP and there is need to
inform people in this regard.
Quoting a recent survey, he said there are
less than 10 per cent people in big cities who
knew about salient features of MNP.
However, according to a statement issued by
the company, Telenor Pakistan CEO Jon Eddy
Abdullah believes, “3G offers broadband con-
nectivity over mobile networks, which spans
the rural-urban divide, can stimulate internet
penetration in Pakistan just like new 2G
licences boosted cellular penetration to record
levels over just a few years. The time for
introducing 3G technology in Pakistan is
now, as the country needs a more efficient
communications network and 3G is the solu-
tion to it.”
Welcoming media personnel at the work-
shop Irfan said: “3G offers operators business
continuity as the associated spectrum allows
additional voice capacity to address urban
capacity constraints; more effi-
cient spectrum usage to drive
down operator costs; provides
for enriching value added serv-
ices (VAS) to enhance customer
experience and is considered the
only viable solution to increase
mobile broadband penetration
On MNP he maintained,
“Telenor Pakistan continues to
view Mobile Number Portability
as an effective tool contributing
towards availability of more choices for the
consumer.”
The presenters at the seminar explained
that 3G is the third generation of mobile
phone standards and technology that enables
network operators to offer users a wider
range of more advanced services. Moreover,
MNP benefits the customers by giving them
the liberty to choose the service provider with
the best overall value while retaining the
phone numbers including the code.

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in Pakistan
can send data up to 40 times higher speed

T
he launch of 3G (third generation) serv-
ices in Pakistan in the current scenario
seems impossible as this cellular service
needs a huge foreign direct investment for
development of existing infrastructure as well
as setting up new ones.
Neighbouring countries like India and
Bangladesh have been quickly moving ahead
to introduce 3G technology for their mobile
users and talks with cellular service providers
are under way.
However, cellular service companies have
different approach towards 3G technology in
Pakistan. Representatives of these companies
are of the view that local mobile users have
not tapped existing value added services due
to their prices. In case of launch of 3G technol-
ogy, the number of users is not expected to
rise. Technically, the main difference between
3G and 2G networks is the speed by which
data can be sent and received. The 3G network
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than earlier digital networks, which means
that in addition to audio, graphics and text,
3G customers can also send and receive video
content at 5 to 10 MB per second.
With a 3G phone and access to its network,
one can send and receive video calls, watch
live TV, access the internet, receive emails as
well as the usual voice call and messaging
services found on a mobile phone. The cost of
using 3G technology is much higher than
GSM services. Similarly, the handsets required
for 3G technology are also costlier than ordi-
nary cell-phones. According to market sources, average cell-
Given the cost of spectrum and the heavy phone users use mobiles costing Rs 1,500 to Rs
investment a 3G set-up requires, the telecom 5,000 in towns, in cities like Karachi, Lahore
operators would be charging the end-user a and Islamabad average price comes in the
high fee in return. At the end of the day, if range of Rs 3,000 to Rs 10,000. On the other
that portion of the market that actually under- hand, the price of 3G cell phone will start
stands and wants to go 3G is unable to afford from Rs 10,000. In such a case, the 3G technol-
it, this change may just be cosmetic. ogy may not be popular.

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Samsung-SGH-L310
This clamshell phone comes with
features like 65k colour display
with resolution of 176 x 220 pix-
els, Tri band, GPRS, EMS, SMS
and handsfree speaker. It also
has features like a Secondary
Display, Inbuilt memory of 20MB,
2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth,
USB connector, GPRS and
EDGE. The mobile phone comes
with a Music Player which sup-
ports MP3, AAC and AAC+ audio
formats, Games, Email Client and
an Inbuilt Dictaphone.
Samsung-SGH-L320
This clamshell phone comes with
features like 65k colour display
with resolution of 176 x 220 pix-
els, Tri band, GPRS, EMS, SMS
and handsfree speaker. It also
has features like a Secondary
Display, Inbuilt memory of 20MB,
2 megapixel camera, Bluetooth,
USB connector, GPRS and
EDGE. The mobile phone comes
with a Music Player which sup-
ports MP3, AAC and AAC+ audio
formats, Games, Email Client and
an Inbuilt Dictaphone.
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Samsung-SGH-F400
This Dual slider mobile phone
comes with a 256k coloured dis-
play with a resolution of 240 x 320
pixels, 3 megapixel camera with
video recorder. It comes with fea-
tures like bluetooth with A2DP,
USB connector, EDGE, GPRS
and FM Radio. It also has an
inbuilt memory of 24 MB which
can be upgraded using a microSD
card. The music player in the
mobile phone supports MP3, AAC,
eACC+ and WMA audio formats.
The mobile phone is JAVA
enabled and works on Li Ion bat-
tery.
Samsung-SGH-G810
This slider mobile phone comes
with a 256k coloured display with
a resolution of 240 x 320 pixels,
5 megapixel auto focus camera
with flash and video recorder.
The camera comes with a 3x
optical zoom, Face Detection and
a Xenon Flash. It comes with
features like Wi-fi, bluetooth with
A2DP, USB connector, EDGE,
GPRS and FM Radio. The music
player in the mobile phone sup-
ports MP3, AAC, AAC+, eACC+
and WMA audio formats. The
mobile phone works on a Li Ion
battery and comes in Titan Grey
colour. GPS, Geo-tagging,
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4,800 3,999

Nokia 2626 Trend T303 Smarty

Dimension 104 x 43 x 18 mm, 71 cc Dimension Unknown
Weight 91 g Weight 94gm
Battery Talk time Up to 3 h, Stand-by Up Battery Talk Time Up to 3h, Standby
to 300 h Time Up to 220h
Memory 2 MB user memory Memory Builtin
Connectivity GPRS Class 6 (3+1/2+2 slots), Connectivity GPRS Class 12, USB
24 - 36 kbps Display Size 1.8 inch Wide
Display Size 128 x 128 pixels, 27 x 27 mm Display Colour TFT color Screen
Display Colour CSTN, 65K colors

Rs Rs
4,050 4,750

Sony Ericsson K220i Motorola L6

Dimension 103 x 46 x 16.7 mm Dimension 113 x 49 x 10.9 mm, 56 cc
Weight 82 g Weight 86 g
Battery Talk time Up to 8 h, Stand-by Battery Talk Time: Up to 5 h 50
Up to 300 h min, Standby Time: Up to
Memory 2 MB internal memory, (20 345 h
eceived, dialed and missed Memory 10 MB shared memory
calls) Connectivity GPRS Class 10 (4+1/3+2
Connectivity Infrared, GPRS Class 8 (40 slots), USB port
kbps) Display Size 128 x 160 pixels
Display Size CSTN, 65K colors Display Colour CSTN, 65K colors
Display Colour 128 x 128 pixels, 1.6 inches

Rs Rs
4,550 4,100

Samsung B300 LG KP110

Dimension 87 x 45 x 20 mm
Weight 80 g Dimension 103 x 46.4 x 13.4 mm
Battery TalkTime 3 hours, Stand-by 8 Weight 65 g
days (192 hours) Battery Talk time Up to 4 h,
Memory 2MB internal memory, 200 Stand-by Up to 400 h
SMS, 500 Phonebook entries Memory 64MB built-in memory +
(no memory card) Extendable memory card
Connectivity GPRS (microSD TransFlash)
Display Size 1.5" 128 x 128 pixel Connectivity GPRS Class 10 (48 kbps),
Display Colour CSTN, 65 K colors USB
Display Size 128 x 128 pixels, 1.5 inches
Display Colour CSTN, 65K colors

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Rs. 20,800 Rs. 24,500

Nokia 5320 XpressMusic Motorola ROKR E8

Dimension Dimension
108 x 46 x 15 mm, 67 cc 115 x 53 x 10.6 mm, 60 cc
Weight Weight
90 g 100 g
Battery Battery
Talk time Up to 3 h 30 min, Stand-by Up Talk time Up to 5 h, Stand-by Up to
to 250 h 300 h
Memory Memory
140 MB Built-in + microSD Memory 2 GB Built-in + Memory Card
Card (512 MB or 1 GB card (microSD)
included) Connectivity
Connectivity Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, USB,
Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, USB, GPRS GPRS Class 12 (48 kbps), EDGE
Class 32, HSCSD, EDGE Class 32, 3G Class 12
(HSDPA 3.6 Mbps) Display Size
Display Size 320 x 240 pixels, 2.0 inches
240 x 320 pixels, 2.0 inches (8-way Navi (Touch-sensitive keypad,
key) Navigation scroll wheel)
Display Colour Display Colour
TFT, 16M colors TFT, 256K colors

Rs. 14,500 Rs. 19,000

Sony Ericsson W380i Motorola Moto Q

Dimension Dimension
92 x 49 x 16 mm 116 x 64 x 11.5 mm, 85 cc
Weight Weight
100 g 115 g
Battery Battery
Talk time Up to 7 h, Stand-by Up Talk time Up to 5 h, Stand-by Up to
to 300 h 240 h
Memory OS
14 MB shared + 512MB M2 Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0
Memory Card included Standard Edition
Connectivity Memory
Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, USB, 40 MB internal memory +
GPRS Class 10 (48 kbps), miniSDIO, 128 MB card included
HSCSD, EDGE Class 10 (236.8 Processor
kbps) 312-MHz (Intel XScale-based
Display Size PXA270)
176 x 220 pixels, 1.9 inches Connectivity
Display Colour Bluetooth v1.2, Infrared , USB,
TFT, 256K colors GPRS Class 10 (48 kbps),
Display Size
320 x 240 pixels, 36 x 48
Display Colour
TFT, 65k colors

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Rs. 24,800 Rs. 32,000

Samsung G800 Nokia 6600 Slide

Dimension Dimension
101 x 51.1 x 18.8 mm 90 x 45 x 14 mm, 52 cc
Weight Weight
134 g 110 g
Battery Battery
Talk time Up to 3 h 20 min, Stand-by Talk time Up to 4 h, Stand-by Up to
Up to 220 h 340 h
Memory OS
160 MB internal memory + External Series 40
microSD (TransFlash) Memory
Connectivity 18 MB internal + microSD Memory
Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, USB, Card
GPRS Class 10 (48 kbps), EDGE Connectivity
Class 10 (236.8 kbps), 3G HSDPA Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, USB,
(7.2 Mbps), GPRS Class 32 (88 kbps), HSCSD,
Display Size EDGE Class 32 (296 kbits), 3G
240 x 320 pixels, 2.4 inches (384 kbps)
Display Colour Display Size
TFT, 256K colors 240 x 320 pixels, 2.2 inches
Display Colour
TFT, 16M colors

Rs. 38,000 Rs. 15,000

Nokia E66 Samsung L700

Dimension Dimension
107.5 x 49.5 x 13.6 mm, 62.6 cc 109 x 46 x 12.8 mm
Weight Weight
121 g 107 g
Battery Battery
Talk time Up to 7 h 30 m, Stand-by Up Talk time up to 3.4 hrs, Stand-by
to 264 h up to 307 hrs
OS Memory
Symbian OS 9.2, Series 60 v3.1 UI 40 MB shared (30 MB available) +
Memory microSD Memory Card (up to
Built-in 110 MB + 128 MB SDRAM + 2 8GB)
GB microSD included (supports up to Connectivity
8GB, hotswap) Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, USB,
Processor GPRS Class 10 (48 kbps), EDGE
ARM 11 369 MHz Class 10 (236.8 kbps), 3G (384
Connectivity kbps)
Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, USB, WLAN Display Size
(Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g), GPRS Class 32 (100 176 x 220 pixels, 2.1
kbps inches
Display Size Display Colour
240 x 320 pixels, 2.4 inches TFT, 262K colors
Display Colour
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Apple-iPhone 3G (16GB)
This 133 grams phone has a Lithium Ion
battery, which provides talk time of 600
minutes and standby time of 300 hours. It
has added features like Quad band, 16m
coloured touchscreen display with resolu-
tion of 320 x 480 pixels and a music play-
er supporting MP3, AAC, Audible, Apple
Lossless, AIFF and WAV music formats. It
also comes with an inbuilt memory of
16GB, 3G compatibility, 2 megapixel cam-
era, Wi-fi, Bluetooth, USB connector and
EDGE. Multi-Touch Display, OS X
Operating System and GPS are the
unique features of this mobile phone and
comes in Black and White colour.
Rs
45,000
Blackberry-Bold 9000
This 136 grams phone has a Lithium Ion
battery type, which provides talk time of
300 minutes and standby time of 310
hours. It has added features like 65k
colour TFT display with a resolution of
480 x 320 pixels, 128 MB inbuilt memo-
ry which is upgradeable upto 8 GB
using microSD card, flight mode, EDGE,
Quad band, bluetooth, USB connector,
email client and a music player. It has 2
mega pixel camera with flash and video
recorder. The phone supports MP3,
MIDI, AMR-NB, AAC, AAC+, eAAC+ and
WMA audio formats and comes with
inbuilt GPS.
Rs
32,800
Nokia 6210 Navigator
This 117 grams phone has a Lithium
Polymer battery type, which provides
talk time of 220 minutes and standby
time of 220 hours. It comes with a 16m
TFT display with a resolution of 240 x
320 pixels. It also has added features
like Quadband, 3.15 megapixel camera
with flash and video recorder, 120MB
inbuilt memory, expandable with
microSD memory card, EDGE,
Bluetooth and USB connector. This nav-
igator phone has one touch navigation
button to access GPS functions and
maps.
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Nokia N73 Music Edition
This 116 grams phone has a lithium-ion
battery type, which allows you talk time
of 246 minutes and standby time of 350
hours. It has added features like 262K
colour TFT display with a resolution of
240 x 320 pixels, 42MB inbuilt memory,
2GB miniSD card, ambient light detector,
quad band, fm radio, PictBridge, EDGE,
bluetooth, infrared, USB connector, flight
mode and music player. It has a 3.2MP
camera with Carl Zeiss Optics Tessar
Lens, 20x digital zoom, flash, red-eye
reduction, camera modes, white bal-
ancer, light sensitivity, shutter speed,
brightness adjuster, self timer, video
recording and a secondary VGA camera.
Rs
54,500
Apple-iPhone 3G (8GB)
This 133 grams phone has a Lithium Ion
battery, which provides talk time of 600
minutes and standby time of 300 hours.
It has added features like Quad band,
16m coloured touchscreen display with
resolution of 320 x 480 pixels and a
music player supporting MP3, AAC,
Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF and WAV
music formats. It also comes with an
inbuilt memory of 8GB, 3G compatibility,
2 megapixel camera, Wi-fi, Bluetooth,
USB connector and EDGE. Multi-Touch
Display, OS X Operating System and
GPS are the unique features of this
mobile phone and comes in Black
colour.
Rs
56,000
HTC Touch Diamond
HTC Touch Diamond™ signals a giant
leap forward in combining hi-tech
prowess with intuitive usability and
exhilarating design.HTC Touch
Diamond™ Features a sharp 2.8-inch
touch screen housed within a stunning
formation of brushed metal and flaw-
less faceted edges, the HTC Touch
Diamond is as beautiful to behold as it
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Rs. 34,000 Rs. 13,600

Samsung F480 Nokia E50

Dimension Dimension
98.4 x 55 x 11.6 mm 113 x 43.5 x 15.5 mm, 70 cc
Weight Weight
100.6 g 104 g
Battery Battery
Talk time Up to 3 h, Stand-by Up to Talk time Up to 6 h 40 min,
250 h Stand-by Up to 215 h
Memory OS
232 MB Built-in + microSD Memory Symbian OS 9.1, S60 3rd edition
Card (supports up to 8GB) Memory
Connectivity 70 MB shared memory + 32 MB
Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, USB, SDRAM memory + microSD
GPRS Class 12 (32 - 48 kbps), Processor
EDGE, 3G (HSDPA 7.2 Mbps) ARM 9 235 MHz
Display Size Connectivity
240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches Bluetooth 2.0, Infrared, USB, GPRS
Display Colour Class 10 (48 kbps), EDGE Display
TFT touchscreen, 256K colors Size
240 x 320 pixels (5-way joystick nav-
igation)
Display Colour
TFT, 256K colors

Rs. 37,000 Rs. 43,400

Sony Ericsson Samsung Armani

W960i P520
Dimension Dimension
109 x 55 x 16 mm 87.5 x 54.5 x 10.5 mm
Weight Weight
119 g 85 g
Battery Battery
Talk time Up to 9 h, Stand-by Talk time Up to 6 h, Stand-by
Up to 370 h Up to 220 h
Memory Memory
256 MB internal flash memory 60 MB embedded memory +
(96 MB reserved for OS + 160 Extendable microSD
MB user memory) + 8 GB (TransFlash)
memory Connectivity
Connectivity Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP,
Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, USB, GPRS Class 10 (48
USB, GPRS Class 10 (48 kbps), EDGE
kbps), 3G Display Size
Display Size 240 x 320 pixels, 2.6 inches
240 x 320 pixels, 2.6 inches Display Colour
(Handwriting recognition) TFT touchscreen, 256K colors
Display Colour
TFT touchscreen, 256K colors

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Rs. 18,000 Rs. 48,000

BlackBerry 8700g Nokia N95 8GB

Dimension Dimension
110 x 69.5 x 19.5 mm 99 x 53 x 21 mm, 96 cc
Weight Weight
134 g 129 g
Battery Battery
Talk time Up to 4 h, Stand-by Talk time Up to 6 h, Stand-by Up to
Up to 450 h 280
OS OS
BlackBerry OS Symbian OS 9.2, S60 rel. 3.1
Memory Memory
64 MB flash memory + 16 MB 8 GB internal memory (No
SRAM Memory Card Slot)
Processor Connectivity
Intel PXA901 312 MHz Bluetooth, Infrared, USB, GPRS
processor Class 32 (107 / 64.2 kbps),
Connectivity Display Size
Bluetooth, USB, GPRS, EDGE 240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches
Display Size Display Colour
320 x 240 pixels TFT, 16M colors

Rs. 25,000 Rs. 19,000

BlackBerry Pearl 8120 Nokia 7610 Supernova

Dimension Dimension
107 x 50 x 14 mm 98 x 48 x 15 mm, 63 cc
Weight Weight
91 g 99 g
Battery Battery
Talk time Up to 4 h, Stand-by Up to Talk time Up to 5 h 20 min, Stand-
360 h by Up to 300 h
OS Memory
BlackBerry OS 64 MB internal + microSD (512MB
Memory or 2GB included)
64 MB flash memory + Extendable Connectivity
microSD (TransFlash) Bluetooth v2.0, USB, GPRS Class
Connectivity 32 (88 kbps), EDGE Class 32 (296
Bluetooth v2.0, USB, GPRS, kbits)
HSCSD, EDGE, WLAN (Wi-Fi Display Size
802.11b/g) 240 x 320 pixels, 2.0 inches
Display Size Display Colour
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Nokia N96
Power-packed entertainment and
multimedia device
Consumers no longer need to be tied to their desks or laptops to access
the latest entertainment online – whether it is famous and familiar TV chan-
nels, major entertainment brands or up-to-the-minute user generated con-
tent. The latest converged mobile devices come packed with high-speed
connectivity features, add this to the increased availability of 3G and other
high speed mobile networks and mobile devices are offering compelling
viewing experiences on the move. So much so that the number of mobile
TV and video users is expected to grow to 462 million by 2012..

Dimension 103 x 55 x 18 mm, 92 cc

Weight 125 g
Battery Talk time Up to 3 h 40 min, Stand-by Up to 220 h
OS Symbian OS 9.3, S60 rel. 3.2
Memory 128MB RAM, 256MB storage Memory + Nokia
N96 has 16 GB of internal memory + Extendable
microSD (TransFlash)
Connectivity Bluetooth v2.0 with A2DP, USB, GPRS Class 32
Display Size 240 x 320 pixels, 2.8 inches
Display Colour TFT, 16M colors
Colors Black
Entertainment DVB-H TV broadcast receiver,
MP3/AAC/AAC+/eAAC+/WMA player, Stereo FM
Radio with RDS, TV out, 3.5 mm audio output
jack, Games
Camera 5 MP, 2592x1944 pixels, Carl Zeiss optics, auto
focus, video(30fps), flash; 2ndary VGA videocall
camera

Motorola Q 9h
The Motorola Q 9h seems an interesting offer if you're after a smartphone.
There's no stylus, nor touchscreen, and neither is likely to be missed. In return
you get a full QWERTY keypad, almost complete data equipment and Windows
Mobile 6 Standard. If you want a Windows Mobile gadget but are trying to steer
clear of touchscreen displays, the Q 9h might just do the job for you.

General 2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

Dimensions 118 x 67 x 11.8 mm, 85 cc
Weight 134 g
Display Type TFT, 65k colors
Ringtones Type Polyphonic, MP3
Memory Phonebook Practically unlimited entries and
fields, Photocall Call records Practically
unlimited Card slot microSD (TransFlash),
up to 8GB, buy memory
Data GPRS Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48
kbps HSCSD No EDGE Class 12, 296 /
Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP
Infrared USB Yes
Features OS Microsoft Windows Mobile 6.0 Standard
Messaging SMS, MMS, Email, Instant
Messaging Browser HTML (Opera) Games
Yes, order now Colors Silver, Black Camera
2 MP, 1600x1200 pixels, video(30fps), flash
Battery Standard battery, Li-Ion 1170 mAh
Stand-by Up to 480 h
Talk time Up to 6 h 30 min

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Samsung Beat M3510

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has launched its newest music phone, Samsung
Beat (model: M3510) as the starters of the company’s music phone line “The
BEAT Edition.”
M3510 is equipped with digital natural sound engine, also known as DNSe,
which is inherited from Samsung’s own audio technology, provides more natural
sound effects, perfectly overcoming the limitations of sound from earphones and
small speakers in portable devices. It reproduces a genuine 3D sound and deep
bass resonance.
Samsung Beat offers a variety of music dedicated features. ‘Auto EQ’ function
automatically turns the equalizer into the best setting according to the genre and
type of the music users listen to. Also, by using Shazam’s ‘Find Music’ service,
users can find any song they want to listen to even at an unexpected moment. By
recording and sending a tune to Shazam server, users can easily track down and
even purchase the song through participating operators’ music stores.
Samsung Beat comes with ‘Motion Play’ feature, which enables users to con-
trol their music with just few simple motions. For instance, users can play or pause
the music simply by tapping their phone. By flipping the phone, the music is muted
and automatically set at the etiquette mode. Moreover, by simple shaking the
phone, users can play the next song or previous song.
Besides the Motion Play feature, Samsung BEAT also features physical music
control keys on the outside. Users can immediately play, stop, pause, fast forward
or rewind music using these control keys even when working on other tasks such
as sending text message and playing mobile game.

Trend T-786i Dual Sim GSM

Trend mobiles were the first in introducing the dual SIM mech-
anism that allowed a person to hold two different SIMs in one
mobile phone. It has now come up with the simplest and yet the
most loaded of the mobile phones. It is called the, Trend Perfect
Dual Sim, T-786i is available in Bar shape with keypad and touch
screen facility.
The features of T786i are startling, Its basic edge is that a user
can retain different network operators, SIMs in one cell phone and
can receive calls in both. It is a complete multimedia cell phone
with 2 mega pixel camera, which has an audio and
video recorders and players as well. The USB
data cable allows the user a unique facility of
‘Plug N Play’.
Attach the cable with your computer and
view what you have recorded. There is no
need of any software or driver installation
unlike other cell phones. Trend T-786i
having Bluetooth connectivity, GPRS
and MMS. Trend mobiles offers and
unmatched Deluxe Package along with
the set which includes a free-of-cost
Bluetooth Device, 256 MB memory card, hands free, USB
port, Desktop charger, 2 extra batteries and In-Car charger
and a Trendy pouch to carry your cell phone in style.
The Trend T-786i is a fashion conscious handset, which has a
good and attractive size of LCD and gives solid and quality feel
when in use. Mobile phone holds another edge to other cell
phones in the market. It has the style, it has the attractive look
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DELL XPS 1330 2.0GHz HP COMPAQ 6510b (GR729ES)

Rs Rs
98,594 107,368

Product Details

The XPS 1330 is a truly portable notebook. How did we get so thin?
Product Details
Our optional LED display uses 32 tiny, white LEDs for a super bright,
super skinny screen. Projected weight starting at just under 4
The highly mobile HP Compaq 6510b Notebook PC is your mobile
pounds (1.8 kg) and featuring next-gen technologies like optional
office companion. With the latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors, wire-
embedded mobile broadband, slot load optical drive, HDMI connec-
less connectivity, and comprehensive security solutions, it’s the com-
tion, Biometric Fingerprint Security, the XPS 1330 is the last word in
plete business solution around the corner or across the globe.
leading edge high tech.

ACER ASPIRE 4920 301G16Mi IBM THINKPAD X61 Tablet (UU5BFxx)

Rs Rs
76,012 187,685

Product Details Product Details

The Aspire 4920 is a streamlined 14.1" laptop with exceptional multi-
media and encased in the new Gemstone notebook design. Backed
by Intel® Centrino® Duo mobile processor technology, solid ATI
MobilityTM Radeon® X2500 graphics, a Dolby®-certified surround
sound system with S/PDIF support and the Acer Video Conference
solution, offering one-click, real-time video and voice over the
Internet, the Aspire 4920 is set to be the cornerstone of your digital
entertainment center.
ThinkPad X Series notebooks are the ultimate business tools for profes-
sionals who are constantly on the move and who need to stay produc-
tive – whenever, wherever. The newest models, the ThinkPad X61 and
ThinkPad X61s, offer extremely long battery life in a small form factor
that makes it easy to carry your business with you. Multiple connection
options can help you stay connected all the time, and powerful Intel®
Core™2 Duo processors deliver performance for even the most proces-
sor-intensive tasks, such as VoIP calls or heavy data analysis.

MACBOOK AIR 1.6GHz MB003 Sony Vaio VGN-CR420E / N

Rs Rs
182,536 100,188

Product Details

MacBook Air is ultrathin, ultraportable, and ultra unlike anything else.

But you don't lose inches and pounds overnight. It's the result of
rethinking conventions. Of multiple wireless innovations. And of break-
through design. With MacBook Air, mobile computing suddenly has a
new standard. The incredible thinness of MacBook Air is the result of
numerous size- and weight-shaving innovations. From a slimmer hard
drive to strategically hidden I/O ports to a lower-profile battery, every-
thing has been considered and reconsidered with thinness in mind.
Product Details
Sony VAIO VGN-CR420E/N 14.1" Laptop (2.1 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
T8100 Processor, 3 GB RAM, 250 GB Hard Drive, Vista Premium) Gold
Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 (2.1 GHz), 2MB L2 cache Genuine Microsoft
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Lahore: Chairman Trafco Tahir Malik and Acting CEO Warid Faisal Ejaz Khan swap documents after signing an agree-
ment; Member Board, Abu Dhabi Group, Parvez A. Shahid is also present at the occasion.
Trafco,Warid once
again shake hands
arid Telecom (Pvt.) Ltd. and Trafco
W Group renewed their agreement and
signed another contract through which
Trafco Group will utilize voice and data commu-
nication services of the GSM and EDGE network
of Warid Telecom.
Trafco Logistics (Pvt) Ltd., is Pakistan's premi-
Lahore: Board Director, Warid Telecom, Parvez A.
Shahid addresses the audience on the occasion.
Lahore: A group photo at signing ceremony with Azhar Saeed Butt, Tahir Malik, A. Shahid and other senior members.
Flare Report Event
most high-tech GSM/GPRS vehicle tracking com-
pany under its umbrella. In order to provide the
most excellent services in our business we can
only trust the operator having best quality GSM /
GPRS network along with flawless customer serv-
ices and technical back-up support. Warid has
proved itself the best communication service
provider and we will continue to work together.”
Pervez A. Shahid, Board Member Warid
Telecom said, “We are happy that Warid Telecom
has become the primary choice of Pakistani sub-
“In order to provide the
most excellent services
in our business we can
only trust the operator
having best quality GSM
/ GPRS network along
with flawless customer
services and technical
back-up support”
scriber fulfilling the complete communication
needs. We are not only the leader for the provi-
sion of voice telephony but also becoming the
first choice for providing data communication
services as well.”

um logistic, freight management and commercial
shipping services company with an incompatible
network throughout the country and associates in
more than 270 destinations internationally.
Warid Telecom (Pvt.) Ltd. is providing voice
and communications services through its state of
the art GSM and EDGE network to Trafco since
May 2006. Both Trafco and Warid have enjoyed
and benefited from the partnership and decided
to strengthen the business relationship by extend-
ing the service contract for another year.Warid
Telecom’s Acting Chief Executive Officer, Faisal
Khan and Trafco Group’s Chairman, Tahir Malik
signed the agreements in an impressive ceremony
attended by corporate leaders and leading mem-
bers of the business community.
Chairman Trafco Group, Tahir Malik said,
“Trafco Group being one of the leading and
renowned groups of Pakistan has a top of the line Lahore: Chairman, Trafco Logistic, Tahir Malik presents a
logistics and freight forwarding company and the memorandum to Board Director, Warid Telecom at ceremony.
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Chairman and CEO IBM
Quietly and without fanfare, Palmisano
has positioned IBM to generate great
returns in a mature market by expanding
internationally and wherever he has seen
opportunity in the enterprise applications
space.
5 Marissa Mayer
Vice President, search products
and user experience, Google
In addition to overseeing the way search
is constructed and rendered usable for
millions of people all over the world,
Mayer is shepherding the company’s
health portal initiative.
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Courtois
President, Microsoft International,
Courtois leads global sales, marketing
and services for Microsoft International in
more than 240 countries outside the United
States and Canada. His role is becoming
increasingly important as Microsoft sales
outside North America increase.
7 Joe Tucci
Chairman, President
and CEO, EMC
Tucci is taking EMC on a trip beyond
storage.
8 Mark Hurd
Chairman, President and CEO,
Hewlett-Packard
With $100 billion in revenue in 2007, HP is
now one of the largest technology compa-
nies, and Hurd has worked to add to the
company’s portfolio by expanding both its
software division and its services portfolio.
9 John
Chambers
Chairman and CEO,
Cisco Systems
IP is increasinmgly becoming the chan-
nel by which all communications travel,
and Cisco is providing not only the
plumbing but also the applications.
10 Larry Page &
Sergey Brin
President of products and resident
of technology, respectively, Google
The founders of Google changed expecta-
tions for search engines, now they are doing
the same with the growing suite of applica-
tions that have paved the way for a top-down
model of technology implementations.
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W (WLL) in all 14 telecom regions of the country. Telephony
and data services are being offered using wireless CDMA
technology. Samsung is technology partner for latest CDMA 2000 1x
solution for Phases I and II. Key technology partner for terminal
equipment is LG. Service was launched from Lahore in June 2005.
Huawei Technologies is the vendor for Phase III rollout which in-
cludes Karachi (the largest metropolitan) and Hyderabad Current op-
erations in over 40 cities. Meanwhile, Worldcall is sponsoring in
games, recently Worldcall has sponsored polo championship in which
Lahore: Punjab Governor Salman Taseer watches the final match of World Call Polo
Championship.
Lahore: Players of Pony Express and Hatif Polo teams struggling to get hold on the ball
during final of the World Call Polo Championship 2008.
Lahore: A lady during the final match.
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the matches. In the final match, Pony Express pulled off a surprise win
over Hattaf Security (6 1/2 to 6) at the Lahore Polo Club's Aibak
ground.
Riding on a decisive one-and-a-half goal handicap advantage, Pony
Express put up a brilliant display and shocked the title favourites
Hattaf Security. Agha Murtaza Ali Khan, who topped handicap list
from both teams, was the main difference between the teams as he hit
four goals for the winning side. Later, chief guest Governor Punjab
Salman Taseer distributed prizes among the winners.

Lahore: A group photo of Punjab Governor Salman Taseer with the winning team Pony Ex-
press.
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Mario stylishly returns
You can opt to race solo
or with a guest in
split-screen mode against
worldwide, regional or
friends list opponents. It
is awesome to dive into
an international game
and see up to 11 other
Miis from Europe, Asia
and America join the
starting grid
Mario Kart Wii plays it relatively safe.
Gone are the experimental nuances seen in the
Game Cube’s MK: Double Dash; this latest
incarnation mimics everything that was good
and wholesome from the superb Mario Kart
DS. Mario Kart Wii brings the same familiar
but fun racing to the Wii and at the same time
becomes the de facto title in the Wii's library
for online play.
The core game play still has not changed all
that much from the heady days of the original
Super Mario Kart. Whether offline or on, play-
ers choose a character, a vehicle and a few
courses and try to beat down the opposition
Battle for the Pacific
looking for amendments
In Battle for the Pacific, you will fight
Japanese soldiers as Jonathan Farrell across 12
missions, most of which take place in jungle.
Scrolling text and a competent voice-over fill
you in on your objectives, and occasionally, a
yawn-inducing History Channel segment will
pop up to give you some historical perspective.
None of it is very good -- there are weird gram-
matical errors in the script.
For some reason, the game performs horri-
bly, with the frame rate dipping noticeably
when there is dense foliage on the screen.
When things cut away for an in-engine cut-
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through skillful driving and the judicious use
of those classic power-ups. Upon booting the
game players will be asked to create a license.
Attaching a Mii to this license immediately
scene, the whole thing becomes a nausea-
inducing slideshow. Yet somehow, even if you
cannot see them at all, your enemies can spot
you from a mile away. In fact, AI soldiers are
so talented, their guns will continue to shoot at
you even when they are doubled over in pain,
or after you have killed them and they are
falling to the ground. You can shoot back, obvi-
ously, though doing so is a pain, thanks to the
terrible, non -customizable controls. Like other
shooters on the Wii, you use the remote both to
turn and to aim the targeting reticle. Yet the
scheme lacks sensitivity and precision, so the
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adds a nice level of personality to the experi-
ence and will give the player a unique friend's
code which can be swapped with other play-
ers. It will also keep track of your progression
through the game's single-player Grand Prix
mode.
The offline content is split up into Grand
Prix, Time Trials, VS and Battle modes. Our
favorite staple remains the GP, which sees you
battle your way through 50cc, 100cc and 150cc
cups (and more) in the traditional manner. 50cc
is absurdly easy, and players would not hit
any real challenge until the 150cc bracket. Time
Trials can be tackled solo or against a ghost
racer. What is cool about the ghosts this time
around is that you will be playing against
some of the better Nintendo staff members'
ghosts, which provides a real challenge.
VS mode pits you against either 11 CPU
racers or you can select to race as two teams,
blue and red. The team with the most points at
the end wins. Battle mode offers the classic
Balloon Battle and Coin Runners modes which
sees you try and pop the other karters' bal-
loons or gain possession of more coins for the
win. Both these sub-modes play out as team
events.
Although this has been a long time coming,
it is actually the Nintendo WFC online mode
that makes Mario Kart Wii such a standout
experience. Getting online and finding a match
is beautifully painless, and when connected,
the game play is flawless. There were very few
occasions where any noticeable lag or discon-
nects interrupted our online racing, something
which Nintendo has failed to achieve until
now. ■
centering your crosshairs on your target is not
always as simple as it should be. As a result,
you will be taking down many of your nigh-
invisible foes with the age-old technique of
simply shooting when your crosshairs turn red.
It could have been a decent game. You will take
down camouflaged soldiers hiding in trees, find
alternate routes and secret ammo stashes, and
hear your foes shout in Japanese. The missions
are linear, to be sure, but there is enough free-
dom of movement to take cover behind rocks,
flank your foes, or hide in buildings and take
potshots through windows. There are even
The first thing you notice
is its exceptional
ugliness. The game
drowns you in a mess of
muddy greens and
browns, and textures are
so blurry and unsightly
that it is hard to make out
anything from a distance
instances where the music and sound effects
can get your blood pumping a bit. Standard
stuff, to be sure, but there are brief moments of
entertainment amid the ugliness.
It is too bad that all these major issues had
to get in the way, because it could have been an
interesting way of brushing up on your World
War II history. In reality, however, you should
be better off taking night classes and leaving
this history lesson buried in the bargain bin. ■
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e all love our gadgets — and love

W having more and more of them — but

technophilia has a downside: Running
all those gadgets utilise excessive energy. As
consumers have stocked their homes with big-
screen TVs, computers, cell phones and increas-
ing numbers of other consumer electronics and
tech products in recent years, those products
have been sucking up more and more power.
Consumers not only have more gadgets but, in
many cases, the new tech products use more
power than comparable ones used in the past.
"We're consuming more electricity per home
because of all these additional devices," said
Bernadette Del Chiaro, who works on clean
energy issues for Environment California, a
non-profit environmental advocacy group.
"They use way more electricity than you think."
For individual consumers, that means higher
electric bills. For society as a whole, it means
increased generation of greenhouse gases.
Fortunately, energy experts say, you do not
have to throw out your new LCD TV to curb
your energy consumption. There are some easi-
er, less painful steps you can take. And new
technology either already on store shelves or
coming online soon should help consumers cut
their consumption even more, they say. "With
few exceptions energy efficiency is an after-
thought with manufacturers," said Noah
Horowitz, a senior scientist with the Natural
Resources Defence Council, an environmental
advocacy group. "This is good news that it has
starting to change."
A representative of the Consumer The growing use of portable devices like cell phones and
Electronics Association, an industry trade laptop computers most notably, has also forced
group, noted that the energy consumption of
many individual products has come down con- manufacturers to think more about energy efficiency, in
siderably over time. The CEA, which has advo- order to extend battery life and reduce overheating
cated voluntary rather than government-
imposed efficiency standards, has created a
Web site where consumers can search for ener- is rising rapidly at a time when consumption firm. "You're saving almost no power," he said.
gy-efficient tech products. by other appliances, such as refrigerators and With recent spikes in energy prices, growing
air-conditioning units, has fallen markedly. In concern about global warming and prodding
2001, the average U.S. household used about from regulators and advocates, the electronics
There is much that 778 kilowatt-hours per year — about 7 per cent industry has increasingly focused on efficiency
of total electricity use — to power tech gadgets, issues, analysts say. Many devices now use less
consumers can do, too, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. power in standby mode than they did before,
including shutting off That was up from about 633 kilowatt-hours per for instance. "We've seen very significant
year — or 6 per cent of total home electricity improvements in the amount of power (com-
devices when they are use — in 1997. Part of the increase reflects the puters) are drawing," noted Steve Kleynhans,
proliferation of devices. DVRs, MP3 players an analyst with Gartner, an industry research
not in use, adjusting and wireless routers have gone from exotic to firm.
settings on devices so commonplace over the past 10 years. Cell The growing use of portable devices — cell
phones have grown in popularity. And many phones and laptop computers most notably —
they consume less power consumers have gone from having one PC at has also forced manufacturers to think more
home to two or three. about energy efficiency, in order to extend bat-
and shopping for gadgets Along the way, consumers have frequently tery life and reduce overheating. "All gadgets
with the government's replaced older tech products with ones that are that want to run off batteries have to sip
bigger and faster — and which often consume power," Klenhans said.
"Energy Star" rating, more power. TVs and computers with liquid More improvements are on the way.
crystal displays, for instance, are typically more Replacing the fluorescent backlights in LCD
which identifies the most efficient than older ones with cathode ray TVs and computer monitors with LEDs promis-
efficient products on the tubes. But consumers often replace their older es to make those products more efficient. New
TVs with much bigger ones, which reduce any power strips already on store shelves will shut
market in a particular efficiency gains. Many consumers might regard off power completely when they sense that the
the energy used by these devices as a fair trade devices attached to them are not in active use.
category for the benefits they offer. But much of the Mostly, though, it just takes awareness by con-
energy is consumed when the devices are not sumers of how much energy their gadgets are
The average California home uses 1,000 to being used. Power plugs that remain plugged using, experts say. And they have an incentive
1,200 kilowatt-hours per year to power elec- in even when disconnected from a cell phone to do so: Conserving electricity saves money.
tronic devices such as TVs, set-top boxes, com- still suck down electricity. Some devices use Horowitz estimates that consumers can lower
puters and the like, according to a recent report almost as much power when turned off as their power bills by 5 per cent just by doing
from the California Energy Commission. That when they are on. When you turn off a cable things like turning off their gadgets when they
works out to 15 to 17 per cent of the electricity set-top box or a DVR, you are often just turning are not using them.

used by the average state household. off the LED light, noted Michael Kanellos, a
The amount of energy consumed by gadgets senior analyst with Greentech Media, a research
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Pakistan: Furqan Qureshi, GM Corporate Solutions, Wateen distributes Umrah tickets among the WCard lucky draw winners in two ceremonies held at Lahore and
Karachi on September 26 and 29 respectively.

Karachi: Sindh Informatin Minister Shazia Marri, accompanied by CEO, Bank Alfalah, Karachi: Mohammad Nadeem Khan, CFO Ufone and Yi Xiang, CEO Huawei Technolo-
Sirajuddin, and Umar Hayat, Regional Manager and others at the inauguration of Bank gies, Pakistan signs the memorandum to expand Ufone’s network to 1800 additional
Alfalah at Akbar Road Branch. destinations.

Pakistan: Fariha Shah Marketing Manager, Kamal Ahmed Country GM, Microsoft Pakistan, Saeed Shiekh
Country Manager, eSys Pakistan and Viqar Madni SMSP AM at the Lahore: A youngster pushing his hand cart while
launch of MS Office Home and Student Edition. talking on his cell phone in provincial capital city.

Islamabad: A lady crossing the road, busy with her cell phone, re-
Lahore: Ufone brand ambassadors pose with new Blackberry Bold 9000 smartphones.
mains unaware of the coming traffic.
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Muhammad Zohaib Khan, CEO A2Z Creatorz and Meshari Y Altarkait Managing Director
Stock TV and FMBC on the occasion of signing MoU to promote A2Z Creatorz products and
services in Kuwait, Bahrain and Saudia Arabia.

Islamabad: Chairman PTA Dr Mohammed Yaseen adresses Open Dailogue Session on “The Potentail
Lahore: A lady enjoying horse riding in Gymkhana Club. and Prospects of Braodband in Pakistan” on November 6, 2008.

Rawalpindi: Venders displaying cell phone accessories and other related stuff to Lahore: Mr Zulqarnain Chaudhry Manager Sales and Marketing with
attract customer at Faizabad. world’s famous Pionist Ms Beatrix Klein during her visit to Pakistan.

Islamabad: A vender talking on his cell phone waiting for the cus-
tomers while selling dry fruit at his handcart In Federal Capital City. Lahore: The team of Mega Business Machine at the opening ceremony of First Canon Link in Pakistan.
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Lahore: A Group photograph of senior officers on the occasion of Bank Alfalah's First International Course on Priority Banking & Wealth Management con-
ducted by Mr Paul Vorbach, Director / Principal Trainer of Securities & Investment Institute Asia-Pacific, Austrlia, at Pearl Continental Hotel.

Lahore: Mr Parvez A. Shahid awards Certificate of Participation to a course participant.

Lahore: Mr Parvez A. Shahid gives away the Certificate of Participation to a course participant.
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Warid Telecom
Customer Service Training 2008:
Warid staff members with CEO
Mr Faisal and
Mr Ahmed Kamal.

A group photo of Wateen Telecom

staff members at Faisalabad
Chamabar of Commerece on the
occasion of A Presentation /
Demonstration Session
by Wateen Solution
on October 29, 2008.

Warid Telecom staff members

with Mr Ahmed Kamal
during Customer Services
Training 2008.

Warid team members with

Mr Thomas Yeo and
Mr Ahmed Kamal on the occasion
of Customer Serives
Trainging 2008.

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San Francisco: Chris Laddish smiles as he is the first person to pur-

Munich: Debora presents the watches "Brasilia Caipirinha" made by manufacturer Ebel and "C1 Chrono- chase the new T-mobile G1 phone during a launch party at a T-mobile
graph High Jewelry" by Concord at the "Millionaire Fair Munich 2008" on October 19, 2008. store on October 21, 2008 in California.

Dubai: Models promote new gadgets during the annual GITEX James Hogan, Etihad Airways' chief executive, receives the award of “Aviation CEO of
information technology fair on October 22, 2008. the Year” from Walid Akawi, ITP's CEO at the CEO Middle East Awards 2008.

Indian actress Rani Mukherjee arrives on the set of her

new film in the village of Jagdevkalan, some 20kms
from Amritsar. Mukherjee is shooting scenes for the so
CAT 1 Über-bike designed by Lee J. Rowland, rides you around on the back of a gigantic fibre-glass jaguar, comes with
far unnamed film which is directed by Yash Raj in the
1200cc Buell 97 S3 thunderbolt engine and custom air intakes and exhaust system for only $567,000.
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Employee of Japan's mobile communication operator Willcom Japanese actress Aya Ueto (L) and Kanako Higuchi (R) display Japanese mobile operator Softbank's "Tiffany mobile
demonstrates the company's smart phone "Willcom 03", pro- phone", studded with 537-piece, a total of 18.34 carats diamons, produced by US jeweler Tiffany and Japanese electron-
duced by Sharp, for "hand-writing chat" service in Tokyo on ics giant Sharp as Softbank announced the new line up in Tokyo on October 30, 2008.
October 28, 2008.

Samsung employee wears glasses and displays the 56-inch sized full high-dxefinition quality Japan's electronics giant Sharp president Mikio Katayama displays the world's first LCD
3D plasma display panel at the annual flat panel display exhibition in Yokohama in Kanagawa televisions "Aquos DX series" (26-inch to 52-inch models) with built-in Blu-ray disk
prefecture, suburban Tokyo on October 29, 2008. recoder in Tokyo on October 15, 2008.

Japanese mobile operator Softbank employee displays the new "Disney mobile phone", which A group of Chinese blind people take a test on computer for their skills with the special
has original wallpaper and animation contents on its stylish waterproof body, produced by keyboard that adopts the Braille system of reading and writing, in Xian, northern
Japanese electronics giant Sharp as Softbank announced the new line up in Tokyo on October China's Shaanxi province on October 26, 2008.
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Chief executives of the Franco-American telecom company Alcatel-Lucent, Ben Verwaayen (L) and chief financial A model displays the new mobile phone of Japan's mobile
officer Hubert de Pesquidoux speak on October 30, 2008 in Paris during a press conference on the quarterly communication giant KDDI "Exilim mobile phone", produced by
results of the company. Japan's Casio Computer in Tokyo hotel on October 27, 2008.

(L-R) 2007 Miss Universe Riyo Mori, 2006 Miss Universe runner-up Kurara Chibana and 2008 South Korean models pose with US automotive giant Chrysler's new Sebring Diesel at
Miss Japan Hiroko Mima display the new mobile phones of Japan's mobile communication giant its unveiling in Seoul on October 21, 2008. Chrysler Korea sells the new Sebring
KDDI at a Tokyo hotel on October 27, 2008. Diesel equipped with a 1,968cc diesel engine and fuel efficiency of 15.2 km/liter.

A model displays the new mobile phone of Japan's mobile communication giant KDDI "Exilim A model displays the new mobile phone of Japan's mobile communication giant KDDI
mobile phone", produced by Japan's Casio Computer at a Tokyo hotel on October 27, 2008. "Exilim mobile phone", and the company's new line up at a Tokyo hotel on October 27,
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elenor Pakistan, having the
T fastest growing cellular net-
work of Pakistan, has estab-
lished partnership with one of the
region’s leading management con-
sultancy and outsourcing services
provider, AbacusConsulting.
Through this partnership Telenor
will able to provide high quality
call centre services to its customers
in several languages such as
English, Urdu, Punjabi and Pasthu.
Chief Marketing Officer, Telenor
Pakistan, Lars Christian Iuel and
Abbas Ali Khan, partner
AbacusConsulting signed the con- Lahore: Chief Marketing Officer, Telenor Pakistan, Lars Christian Iuel
tract of the call center outscoring in and Abbas Ali Khan, partner AbacusConsulting after the inauguration of
Lahore, followed by Lars Christian call center.
Iuel inaugurating the call centre.
Chief marketing officer (CEO) Telenor
Pakistan Lars Christian Iuel described the
DA has approved a plan to develop a
C
modern four tower multi purpose build-
ing in sector I-10 to promote foreign
investment. This project will be completed by
Konnect Holden Limited in collaboration with
an overseas consortium.
The area will be totally fenced with perfect
security system; oil, gas, telecom and other
multi national companies will be offered one
window operation for investment. These tow-
ers will offer wide office space and residential
apartments. Each tower will be 10-12 stories
with each floor covering 25000 square feet. All
towers will have same compound. This build-
ing will have world class restaurant, mosque
and gym facilities. A source disclosed that the
building will offer logistic space and under
ground parking facilities as well. This project
W
arid Telecom launched a mobile cus-
tomer care service - in a van country-
wide. The vans termed as 'Warid on
Wheels' branded as WOW are customised with
in-built counters, computer terminals and
accommodation of two to three service person-
nel in addition to a driver and a support per-
son. The idea is to bring superb service to
those customers who are not
mobile enough to come to Warid
outlets, so Warid itself Each vehicle sell SIM cards,
approaches them. handsets, deal with customer
Such kind of activities, not
promote the business but also inquiries and troubleshoot problems
got public opinions and try to experienced by customers and tried
improve the service and quality
of the its brands. The mobile van
to solve the problems on-the-spot
agreement as not only an indication of the
growing maturity of the market but also
Telenor’s commitment towards customers. He
will not only attract foreign investment in the
country while completion but also facilitate
Each tower will be 10-12
stories with each floor cov-
ering 25000 square feet.
This building will have
world class restaurant,
mosque and gym facilities
multinational companies in a safe and secure
environment for investment.
The construction work will be started in the
last week of November and project will be
plies the back-roads of Pakistan,
improving grass-roots knowledge of
mobility. The van forms a travelling
retail and distribution centre designed
to improve awareness of the benefits
of mobility. For policy-makers and
operators, it highlights a method of
encouraging positive conditions for
market expansion. The van is localiz-
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With the help of
AbacusConsulting, Telenor
will be able to provide high
quality call centre services
to its customers in several
languages such as English,
Urdu, Punjabi and Pasthu
said, “By establishing an alliance with
AbacusConsulting, we intend to provide our
customers even better services. This move will
not only ensure instant addressing of customer
needs but will also guarantee flawless resolu-
tion of customer’s issues with significant
improvement in the turn around time. Our aim
is customer convenience and overall satisfac-
tion with provision services which are simpler
and user friendly.”
President AbacusConsulting Asad Ali Khan
expressed his views on the occasion, “Telenor
Pakistan and AbacusConsulting share a com-
mon commitment to growth and leadership in
Pakistan and we are proud to be partner with
them.”

completed in next few years. By its beautiful
sight, it will shift the attention of capital city
towards Sector I-10. KHL is the exclusive rep-
resentative of Rosenberger Asia Pacific, for
Pakistan and Afghanistan. KHL represents
Rosenberger Hoch Frequenz Technik Gmbh &
CO for their product lines and to provide after
sale support solutions in the areas of telecom-
munication, IT and electronics.
This joint venture is another milestone for
KHL and will pave the way for international
investment. KHL is already developing many
infrastructures projects in Pakistan. Currently,
KHL and Rosenberger has joined hands to
develop the strength for huge projects that can
be handled under the total turn key model
solutions in IT and telecom related projects.

Lahore: Warid customer care mobile van stands near Lahore
International Airport to facilitate the customers.
ing mobile communications, making it feel
more accessible at the grass-root level. People
who have never acquainted themselves with
the world of mobility now have the opportuni-
ty. They get to know a full range of products
including entry level mobile phones and all
related services, such as ring- tones.
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GEANT a bridge to the
world at large
Scientists and researchers in Pakistan can
now connect with their colleagues across the
globe, thanks to a new high speed computer
network link, made possible by GEANT, the
advanced pan-European backbone network,
and TEIN, Asian equivalent to GEANT.
The EU-funded Trans-Eurasia Information
Network (TEIN) and US National Science
Foundation (NSF) agreed to link with Pakistan
Education Research Network (PERN). TEIN
and GEANT together serve some 100 million
researchers in Europe and Asia enabling
ground-breaking research collaboration in dif-
ferent fields like climate change, radio astrono-
my and biotechnology.
European Commissioner for External
Relations & European Neighbourhood Policy
Benita Ferrero-Waldner added, "Since
Mobilink’s expanding
destinations
It has crossed the landmark figure of covering more
than 10,000 locations throughout the country
Mobilink, the country's market leader in
cellular communication with more than 31
million customers and part of the Orascom
Telecom Group, crossed the landmark figure
of covering more than 10,000 locations
throughout the country expanding its foot-
print to the highest number of locations for
voice and data covered by any operator in
Pakistan. Zouhair A. Khaliq, President and
Communication gap hits
cross-Loc trade
The cross-LoC trade, which was resumed
amid lot of fanfare, has hit the first roadblock in
the absence of communication link between the
divided parts of Kashmir. It took five days for
Kashmiri traders to confirm the rates of the items
from their counterparts in AJK due to non-avail-
ability of functional communication links across
the border. The delay is an indication to prove
that all would not be smooth for the trade in
absence of the vital facilities. The goods imported
from AJK, including Peshawari chappals,
Basmati rice, maize, dry fruits, onion, and rice,
are available for sale in Srinagar markets.
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Since European
Community concluded
a Cooperation greement
on Partnership and
Development with
Pakistan in 2004,
we have made
considerable progress
in deepening our
relations
CEO, Mobilink said, "It is a momentous
achievement both for the benefit and conven-
ience of our revered customers who have
reposed absolute confidence in our services,
as well as for the exceptional efforts of our
technical and network teams who have toiled
relentlessly to deliver this challenging task.
Today, we have more than 10,000 reasons to
rejoice."
It took five days for
Kashmiri traders to confirm
the rates of the items from
their counterparts in AJK
due to non-availability of
functional communication
links across the border
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Cooperation Agreement on Partnership and
Development with Pakistan in 2004, we have
made considerable progress in deepening our
relations. The connection to TEIN2 and GEANT
network enables Pakistani scientists to become
involved in international research collaboration
and reinforces our commitment towards build-
ing a strong partnership with Pakistan."
Using European networks, Pakistani scien-
tists from 60 universities and institutes, linked
via PERN, may work with their peers on
research projects that require fast data transfers
to share information across the globe. PERN
reaches GEANT via its new link with EU-fund-
ed Asia-spanning network TEIN. It will also
connect Pakistani scientists to those in United
States through TransPAC2 initiative.
Through this link, Pakistan is first of a
series of new countries joining TEIN3, next
generation of EU-funded Asian research net-
works. PERN uses this new 155 millions of bits
per second connection between Karachi and
TEIN3 network Point of Presence in Singapore,
which is supplied by Pakistan
Telecommunications Company Limited
(PTCL).
Balance of PKR 250
on each Telenor SIM
The added free balance will not
increase the validity of account
To attract new customers, Telenor now offers
a bonus balance worth Rs 250 on all new con-
nections. The balance is given in four parts. The
new SIM comes with a balance of Rs 100 while
the remaining Rs 150 balance is rewarded in
three parts at Rs 50 per month. Rs 50 balance
will only be posted to subscribers account if he
has recharged his account with a minimum bal-
ance of Rs 100 this month. Please remember that
the added free balance will not increase the
validity of account. The offer is applicable on
Talk Shawk A1, Talk Shawk 30 sec, Talk Shawk
per min and Djuice packages. It is also a limited
time offer.
could not be made available in the market due to
the non-availability of rates which the traders
could not confirm in absence of communication
facilities. "We confirmed the rates from AJK
traders through e-mails. Trade would not grow
till all the facilities are made available,” said sen-
ior KCCI member, Altaf Ahmad Trumboo. The
trade links between the divided parts of Kashmir
were restored on October 21, after a long gap of
61 years.
Dr Shah said they expected to receive another
consignment of goods from AJK, "but the traders
across LoC are not able to finalize anything on
import and export of goods in absence of com-
munication."
Dr Shah said most trade around the world
was conducted through telecommunication serv-
ices. "The earlier the facility is restored, the better
it would be for the cross-LoC trade, otherwise it
would be a symbolic initiative," Dr Shah said.
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KHL sponsors SHR Memorial Polo Cup 2008 Cellular growth

Konnect Holden dedication to quality
Limited which is a
leading service
and a tradition of
commitment. The
reaches saturation level
provider to the company has been Karachi: The cellular sub- vious years, as rising infla-
telecommunication, also an advocate of scriber base in the country tion has also seriously af-
power and special- healthy lifestyle and witnessed a slow growth in fected the purchasing power
ized infrastructure has accepted all the the second quarter, which of consumers. As we go
development sec- opportunities that stood at 2.4 per cent by Sep- through figures, total new
tors sponsored the came its way to sup- tember 2008, as experts see connections added in Au-
annual Shabbir port the fact. Fund- mobile phone consumers’ gust stood at 238,000 while
Haider Rizvi Me- Lt Gen Ali Mohammad Jan Aurekzai (R), ex-Gover- ing Sarah Mansoor, market touching the satura- in September they were
morial Polo Cup nor NWFP and Mr Usman A. Sheikh Director and ranked second tion level.Though the cellu- recorded at 640,000.August
2008. The champi- COO of KHL with both the teams. among women sin- lar subscriber base crossed and September are the two
onship is to honour and pay tribute to the gles – Tennis, sponsoring the President 90 million by the end of Sep- lowest registered sale
valour and gallantry of Lieutenant Gold Medal Golf championship 2008 and tember 2008, figurers com- months of new connections
Colonel Shabbir Haider Rizvi(Late) who now Polo tournament are few of the many piled by the telecom since monthly reporting
departed world as a consequence to a examples where KHL extended support regulators and cellular com- began in 2005 by the compa-
tragic collision during Polo Match in year and interest in its community. panies suggest that the sales nies and naturally it directly
1999. The championship was a six days Under the abiding and unshakeable of new connections are on depends on people’s needs
tournament. Lt Gen Ali Mohammad Jan leadership of Mr Usman A. Sheikh, Direc- the decline for the last few and their strength to acquire
Aurekzai (R), ex-governor NWFP was the tor and Chief Operating Officer of KHL, months compared with pre- that.
chief guest. Top brass of army (serving who believes in contributing to the Na-
and retired) as well executive of KHL at-
tended the event. KHL has grown over
tional agenda of self reliance, the com-
pany has matured into one of the leading Self Recorded Tunes by Warid
seven years to be known for its undying service providers in the country. Lahore: Warid Telecom pressing #. Warid sub-
has started two new and in- scriber can have up to five
3D Technologies provides quality novative enjoyable features
for its subscribers, Self
tones in his or her copy
box.The Self Recorded
data cabinets, racks Recorded Caller Tunes and
Copy Caller Tunes.
Caller tunes enables Warid
caller tunes subscriber to
3D Technologies Private It server racks allow to im- Through Copy Caller have his or her own person-
Limited is Pakistan's leading prove cable management Tunes, Warid caller tunes alized signature caller tune.
manufacture and supplier of enhance physical security, subscribers can capture Warid subscriber can up-
high quality data cabinets easily maintain hardware their favourite caller tunes load favourite caller tune
and racks fro housing all and cut down electricity and while dialling other Warid very easily by dialling inte-
types of IT, telecommunica- cooling costs."Best quality, subscriber. The subscriber grated voice recording
tions and media equipment. product reliability, excellent does not need to remember (IVR) at 106 and following
Meticulously designed and customer support and an tone identities anymore as the instructions to have
manufactured, 3DT server understanding of customer the tones could be copied own personalized signature
racks are fully compliant Qassim Butt Director Sales, 3D
needs are the unique selling instantly and simply by caller tune.
with the latest standards es- Technologies Private Limited. points that set us apart from
tablished by the electronic ogy to manufacture rack en- others in the industry," said Wateen, Motorola to expand
industries alliance (EIA). closures that provide a wide Mr Qassim Butt Director
3DT uses superior technol- array of impressive features. Sales, 3D Technologies Pri- WiMAX
vate Limited. "We have big Karachi: Motorola has from improved access to
Japanese firm to invest $50m in IT Park names in our clientele like signed a contract with Wa- wireless broadband serv-
Karachi: Sindh Minister pany would invest the Cyber Net, Wateen Telecom, teen to expand WiMAX ice. Wateen’s WiMAX
for Commerce and Indus- amount in next five years. World Call, Alcatel Lucent, network, enhancing cover- service, launched in 2007,
tries Rauf Siddiqui has said The government is working UBL and a lot more. We are age and doubling the ca- brings to customer price
that the renowned Japanese on a road map of investment also trying to explore new pacity of the network, and quality benefits
IT firm DTS would invest plan and with the imple- international market includ- which covers a population through innovative serv-
$50 million in the IT Park mentation of the plan, more ing some of the Asian coun- of 30 million across 22 ices such as voice calling
project, besides providing Japanese investors would at- tries like UAE, Bangladesh, cities in Pakistan. Wateen’s and WiMAX for residential
1,500 jobs. He said the com- tract towards Pakistan. Sri Lanka, etc.” customers will benefit customers.

Orascom, Alcatel-Lucent commercially launches “Mobilink Infinity” mobile WiMAX service

Islamabad: Mobilink and
Alcatel-Lucent on Wednes-
day announced the com-
mercial launch of Mobilink
Infinity, a wireless broad-
band and telephony service
for residential and enter-
prise consumers based on
the mobile WiMAX stan-
dard. WiMAX Rev-e net-
work deployed by
Alcatel-Lucent brings wire-
less broadband to con-
sumers. Mobilink Infinity
has already launched in
Karachi on October 22.
Commenting on the ini-
tiative, Naeem Y. Zamin-
dar, Vice President & Head
of Broadband Business Di-
vision at Mobilink, said,
“Mobilink Infinity is all
about making high speed
internet and telephony over
WiMax as accessible
through our plug and play,
affordable, customer
friendly service. We’re of-
fering our subscribers high-
quality and reliable
connectivity that has the po-
tential to revolutionize their
lives.” Because Mobilink In-
finity is built upon Alcatel-
Lucent’s innovative and
state-of-the-art mobile
WiMAX Rev-e technology,
Mobilink Infinity sub-
scribers benefit from easy,
affordable and always-on
connectivity to the Internet,
with fast downloads and
smooth audio and video
streaming; they can also
enjoy high quality voice
calls. Calls can be made
using a regular phone or PC
interface.
Alcatel-Lucent has sup-
plied a comprehensive
WiMAX Rev-e solution in-
cluding both fixed and no-
madic terminal devices
from various CPE partners,
thanks to its Open CPE pro-
gram, which is designed to
ensure service provider cus-
tomers have the widest pos-
sible range of interoperable
end-user devices. The Alca-
tel-Lucent WiMAX network
leverages existing sites and
equipment in Mobilink’s
GSM network, helping to
optimize deployment eco-
nomics. “With voice teleph-
ony seeing tough
competition, WiMAX pres-
ents an excellent way to
generate additional rev-
enue, all while providing a
level of service that sub-
scribers truly appreciate,”
noted Vincenzo Nesci, pres-
ident of Alcatel-Lucent’s ac-
tivities in the Middle East
and Africa, “We have a long
relationship with Mobilink
and Orascom, and we are
pleased to have helped
them launch this service in
Karachi.”
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PTCL customers warned of
fraudulent marketing
Islamabad: Pakistan
Telecommunication Com-
pany Limited has warned
it customers to beware of
fraudulent elements offer-
ing the Life Time Package
for Rs400, coupled with
other services of PTCL in
their door to door market-
ing campaigns, says a
press release.
The PTCL has learnt that
some unknown companies,
firms and/or personnel are
using deceptive marketing
Zong stretches its network to Pasni
Karachi: Zong is continu-
ing to expand its coverage
and customer base. The
most recent expansion laid
by Zong is its service in
Pasni, which situates on the
coastal highway. The ex-
pansion is part of the com-
pany's well chalked out
plans to have the largest
network in the country. In
Balochistan, Zong is al-
ready present in Chamman,
Black Berry Bold by Ufone
returns as a pre-paid
Lahore: Ufone has
launched Black Berry Bold
smart phone in the country.
BlackBerry Bold comes with
integrated GPS and Wi-Fi
along with a rich set of mul-
timedia capabilities - sup-
porting tri-band HSDPA
high-speed networks
around the world. This ultra
elegant BlackBerry model
featuring a lustrous black
exterior, satin chrome fin-
ished frame and a stylish
leatherette black plate is a
Telenor makes it way enters to a new era
Islamabad: Solar electri-
cal energy conversion sys-
tem is an alternate and
renewable source. Telenor
Pakistan had first used
solar energy to power one
of its transmission repeater
sites in NWFP back in Au-
gust 2007, becoming the
first telecom company to
use solar energy in Pak-
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practices including door to
door campaigns by using
PTCL’s products & serv-
ices and fraudulently swin-
dling money from the
general public by offering
the Life Time Package for
Rs400- coupled with other
services of PTCL.
PTCL, therefore intimate
its customers not to enter-
tain, trust or fall for such
activities initiated by cer-
tain companies, firms
and/or personnel. All the
Hub, Quetta, Dalbandin,
Zhob, Kalat, Khuzdar,
Tump, Taftan, Pishin,
Mekran and Jiwani. The
company has been focusing
on aggressively expanding
its network coverage amid
growing demand from peo-
ple living across the vast
and diverse geography of
Pakistan, with an aim to
offer seamless connectivity
throughout the country.
symbol of both accomplish-
ment and aspiration. An-
other conspicuous feature
of this device is that
through integrated GPS, the
handset can pinpoint its
exact location, supporting
Black Berry maps and other
location based applications
and services. From provid-
ing wireless access to email,
phone, calendar, web and
multimedia it covers almost
every business and lifestyle
application.
istan. Now it has launched
a solar electrical power en-
ergy system that will com-
pletely facilitate a
commercial site.
Acting Chief Technical
Officer Telenor Pakistan
Atiq Ahmed inaugurating
the Solar Powered BTS
Tower observed that
“Keeping in mind the en-
existing and potential cus-
tomers are strictly advised
to utilize authorized fran-
chisees, customer care cen-
tres, website and PTCL
designated toll free num-
bers for information and
subscription of PTCL’s
product and services.
PTCL shall not be liable
for any loss to any person
in consequence of such
fraudulent activities and
deceptive marketing prac-
tices by the third parties.
PTCL
deployed
by ICPL
Karachi: A commercial
contract was signed be-
tween International Com-
plex Projects Limited
(ICPL) and Pakistan
Telecommunication Com-
pany (PTCL) to provide
state of the art telecommu-
nication services for their
Dolmen City Complex
buildings.
According to the contract
PTCL will deploy all nec-
essary equipment to estab-
lish a state of the art
distributed telecom net-
work for the entire build-
ing complex which is
especially designed by
PTCL engineers for Dol-
men City Complex. The
contract was signed by
Adel Rashid Soufah SEVP
business south and Joozer
Jiwakhan COO of ICPL on
behalf of their respective
organisations at a cere-
mony held at PTCL head
quarters south at Clifton.
ergy crisis and oil price es-
calations in Pakistan, we
believe that solar energy is
one of the most efficient yet
under-utilized alternate en-
ergy sources in Pakistan.”
Telenor Pakistan plans to
continue with such bold
and progressive plans to
employ alternate energy re-
sources for meeting its re-
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Bazaz urges to restore
telecom links
Islamabad: Chief of
Jammu and Kashmir Dem-
ocratic Forum Pandit
Bhushan Bazaz has urged
Indian Prime Minister Dr
Manmohan Singh to restore
telecommunication links
with Pakistan from the
Jammu and Kashmir. In a
letter to the Prime Minister
of India, he said that it was
unfortunate that people of
Jammu and Kashmir had
still been denied telecom
services to Pakistan.
Broadband in Attock
Attock: PTCL has
launched its broadband
digital subscriber line
(DSL) service in Attock,
PTCL Multimedia Broad-
band Assistant Manager
Zahid Khan said. Initially
the DSL facility is being
offered to the applicants
with free modem and in-
stallation under two dif-
Barclays Bank goes live
Karachi: Barclays
Bank has signed an
agreement with Mi-
crosoft whereby Mi-
crosoft will provide
Barclays Bank with
'Dynamics CRM' a fully in-
tegrated, adaptable busi-
ness management solution.
Barclays Bank chose one
of the fastest growing
products by Microsoft that
are widely penetrating the
banking industry in Pak-
istan. To formalise the
agreement, a signing cere-
mony was held at the Bar-
quirement as these sources
of energy are environmen-
tal-friendly and reduce the
use of normal fossil fuel
based energy.
The pilot site, which is in
Buner, is a solar-electricity
hybrid system that runs en-
tirely on solar energy dur-
ing the day and switches to
electricity or battery power
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ferent monthly post-paid
packages. The DSL serv-
ice is currently available
in Attock and Hassanab-
dal, but it is being ex-
tended to four others
tehsils – Pindigheb,
Hazro, Jand and Basal. So
far 105 DSL connections
have been provided to
users in Attock.
clays Bank PLC
Head office at Da-
wood Centre,
Karachi. This
agreement with
Microsoft will en-
able Barclays Bank to pro-
vide superior services to a
wider customer base.
Barclays Bank Pakistan
chose Microsoft's CRM so-
lution as it is an affordable
technology solution that
helps automate and
streamline the three basic
steps of customer manage-
ment.
at night.
The solar panels used in
the unit are imported, the
batteries, cables and instal-
lation expertise are all
local. The solution involves
a one-time cost but requires
low maintenance, thus also
reducing capital and opera-
tional expenditure in the
long-term.
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Trakker and Cisco becomes partner

Lahore: Trakker made
public the recent launch of
Cisco’s IP Telephony solu-
tion, augmenting its al-
ready implemented Call
Centre Solution to serve
nearly 100,000 customers in
Pakistan and to manage
Trakker’s unified commu-
nications. This announce-
ment was made at a
signing ceremony between
the companies at Trakker’s
Regional Office in Lahore.
Originally running on in-
frastructure provided by
Cisco, Pakistan’s first and
largest vehicle tracking and
fleet management com-
pany, Trakker upgraded all
its outbound and incoming
communication traffic to
run on a seamless unified
communications solution.
One of the upcoming proj-
ects by Trakker is up-gra-
dation of their current IP
Call Centre to the enter-
prise version to manage
more than the current 100
agents. Trakker has been
able to make its response
time to customers even
more efficient after integra-
tion of this network and re-
cently deployed IP
telephony system at the
newly opened Lahore re- Lahore: COO Trakker, Omar S. Hatmi with Country Man-
gional office. ager Cisco, Dr Aamir Matin at the ceremony.

Aamir Hussain new COO for Telecard

Broadband: Govt asked to focus Karachi: Telecard Lim-
ited announced the ap-
joined the organisation as
the Marketing Manager

on rural areas
Speakers at an open dia- Universal Service Fund, to ICT industry and play its
pointment of Syed Aamir
Hussain, as the chief oper-
ating officer (COO) of
and worked his way up to
the position of Vice Presi-
dent before being pro-
logue urged government to ICT Research and Develop- role in creating enabling en- their wireless local loop moted to COO. With the
focus on rural areas as far ment, Pakistan Software Ex- vironment taking on board (WLL) business. Aamir launch of a Wimax Net-
as broadband proliferation port Board, PTA,Broadband all relevant ministries and has over 13 years of tele- work, TeleCard broadened
is concerned because e-gov- Service Providers, Cellular departments. com experience in Pak- its penetration in the Tele-
ernment and e-health could Mobile Operators, Vendor, istan and led the team that com sector and optimised
play pivotal role in their Consultants and Academia launched countries first its resources not only in
progress. were also present. PTCL joins Wireless Local Loop serv-
ice back in 2002 and Go-
the form of spectrum utili-
sation but also leveraging
The open dialogue was Dr Mohammad Yaseen,
organized by PTA to dis-
cuss proliferation issues in
gave a bird eye view of the
telecom sector and high-
hand with CDMA consumer service
in 2005.
the overall field network
and infrastructure, which
the country.
The speakers recom-
lighted broadband prolifer-
ation issues. He said that
Wi-tribe An MBA from NU Los
Angles, USA, Aamir
the company has deployed
throughout the country.
mended wireless technol- during past few years, dif- Islamabad: PTCL has
ogy as best option for the ferent segments of telecom signed an agreement Keep cell phones off in hospitals: Experts
areas where access was an sector had shown exponen- with Wi-tribe Pakistan
Islamabad: Using cellu- ence include complete
impediment to broadband tial growth. However, Limited for the provi-
lar phones near hospital stops with no alarms in
proliferations. The meeting broadband proliferation sion of METROWay,
beds and critical care med- syringe pumps and incor-
was presided over by the had been comparatively metro dark fiber service
in Islamabad and ical equipments can lead rect pulsing by an external
Authority’s Chairman, Mo- slow.
Rawalpindi. to electromagnetic inter- pacemaker. To assess the
hammad Yaseen. Represen- Some of the participants
tatives from Ministry of suggested that the govern- According to PTCL ference, leading to imme- potential danger of using
Information Technology, ment should give incentive spokesperson Ali Qadir diate malfunctioning or mobile phones in hospi-
Gillani, PTCL will pro- misreading of the medical tals, researcher recorded
gadgets and endangering nearly 50 incidents of elec-
Samsung’s future TVs at Gitex vide its metropolitan
dark fiber rings to en- the lives of the patients. tromagnetic interference
Karachi: Living up able Wi-tribe Pakistan to Electromagnetic interfer- from cell phone use in
to its commitment to interconnect its base ence can disrupt pacemak- hospitals and classified 75
bringing latest cut- transceiver station (BTS) ers, switch off ventilators per cent of them as signifi-
ting-edge technolo- traffic aggregation point and cause a lot of prob- cant or hazardous.
gies to the region of presence (PoPs) and lems, Health News re- The results underline
Samsung Electronics data centers for enabling ported. Other the importance of keeping
offered its visitors a WIMAX services to Wi- malfunctions attributed to mobile phones switched
complete, first hand tribe Pakistan customers. electromagnetic interfer- off in hospitals.
‘Digital Convergence’
experience at the edi-
tion of Gitex 2008. Dubai: The stall of Samsung at Gitex 2008. Al-Minhal and SSI ink to launch technology
The lineup at the Samsung booth included two organic
light-emitting diode (OLED) TVs, slimmest 52" LCD TV, Islamabad: Al-Minhal Rashid Khawaja, the Con- would also telecast the
quadruple full-HD LCD TV and a 200 Hz LCD TV. Group, a leading telecom- sultant of SSI, and Sohail transmissions and pro-
OLED is seen as a powerful contender for the future dis- munication investment Mubarik Al-Azhari, the grammes of various Pak-
play market mainstream, given its very high resolution, company of Dubai, and Chairman of Al-Minhal istani TV channels around
svelte profile and extremely lightweight. Sports Star International Group signed the agree- the world through mobile
These chic, ultra-slim OLED TVs employ OLED panels (SSI), have inked an agree- ment. phones and internet.
developed by Samsung SDI (the affiliate dedicated to ment to launch state-of- Under the agreement, These services would also
display production). The finished products weigh forty the- art mobile technology Al-Minhal Group, in col- enable the subscribers to
percent less than other LCD TVs of the same size while in Pakistan. The signing laboration with the SSI, find out the locations of
boasting a contrast ratio of 1 million to one, color gamut ceremony in this regard would introduce latest their friends and relatives
of 107% and brightness of 550 cd/m2. Samsung will took place at the occasion mobile technologies in and to trace the snatched
begin commercial production of mid-large- sized OLED of G-Tax, the biggest IT Pakistan with the invest- or stolen mobile phone
TVs around 2010. Expo, being held in Dubai. ment of $ 20 million. It sets as well.
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PTCL to explain free internet service Now Ufone catches songs

Islamabad: The Pakistan
Telecommunication Au-
thority (PTA) has called
the management of Pak-
istan Telecommunication
Company Limited (PTCL)
to explain its position on
providing free dialup in-
ternet services to cus-
tomers.
Chairman PTA Dr Mo-
hammad Yasin said that
most private internet serv-
Telenor introduces first
free Hajj sms
Islamabad: Telenor Pak-
istan, the first mobile serv-
ice provider to offer
prepaid international
roaming services in Pak-
istan in 2005, has launched
free Hajj messages service
exclusively for Hajis who
will have the privilege to
offer Hajj this year. Using
the service a pilgrim
would be able to send
back pre-defined Hajj re-
lated text messages, from
Saudia Arabia, to any cell
ice providers (ISPs) had
lodged complaints to the
Authority against the
PTCL's free service calling
it “anti-competitive and
predatory pricing move”.
The ISPs have complained
that the PTCL is providing
them internet bandwidth
at high rates, besides
charging heavily on do-
mestic leased lines and
other services.
number in Pakistan from
his Telenor Pakistan con-
nection, free of cost.
All Telenor Pakistan pre
and post-paid customers
with international roam-
ing enabled on their con-
nections can avail this
service by dialling *345#.
The pilgrim can select a
pre-defined message in ei-
ther English or Roman
Urdu to be sent absolutely
free to any network in
Pakistan.
“The PTCL on the one
hand is charging ISPs for
the wholesale internet
bandwidth in US dollars at
very high rate and on the
other it is offering free in-
ternet in retail market”
said Azfar Manzoor, vice
president of the ISP Associ-
ation of Pakistan. “The
move is specifically aimed
to eliminate the competi-
tion by unfair means.”
Kingston’s
DataTraveler makes
data transport digital
Kingston Technology
Company, Inc., the inde-
pendent world leader in
memory products, an-
nounced that it is shipping
its high capacity 32GB
DataTraveler 150 USB
Flash drive. The DT150 of-
fers the largest capacity in
Kingston’s entire line of
DataTraveler USB drives
and allows users to conve-
niently combine work-re-
lated content and personal
digital content on the same
drive with plenty of room
to spare. Users can now
Lahore: With Ufone Song Catcher service mobile users
can instantly find out name of the artist and the title or the
album of song being played on TV, Radio, Music player or
any other device.
The customer has to dial 676 from Ufone and place the
mobile next to the speaker. The song is identified and in-
formation about the artist and the song is instantly sent to
the customer through an SMS. Songs identified through
this service can also be downloaded, set as UTune or can
be dedicated to a friend by following the voice instruc-
tions.
Abducted Chinese engineer recovered
The Security Forces re- on August 29 in Khaal area
covered one of the two ab-
ducted Chinese engineers
from Tehsil Matta area in
of Dir Upper district.
The fate of another engi-
neer is still unknown. The
troubled Swat district and
shifted to safer place.
two Chinese telecommuni-
cation engineers had gone
"The Chinese engineer is to Dir Upper for repairing a
safe and healthy," Col telecommunication tower.
Nadeem Ahmed, Incharge The Swat Taliban
ISPR Swat told. The two spokesman had earlier
Chinese telecommunication claimed responsibility for
engineers were kidnapped the kidnapping.
Al-Minhal, SSI ink deed
Islamabad: Al-Minhal Group, a leading telecommu-
nication investment company of Dubai, and Sports Star
International (SSI), have inked an agreement to launch
state-of-the- art mobile technology in Pakistan. The
signing ceremony took place at the occasion of G-Tax,
the biggest IT Expo, being held in Dubai. Rashid
Khawaja, the Consultant of SSI, and Sohail Mubarik
Al-Azhari, the Chairman of Al-Minhal Group, signed

Microsoft’s lower prices transport and share entire

libraries of music, photos,
large business documents,
the agreement. Under the agreement, Al-Minhal
Group, in collaboration with the SSI, would introduce
latest mobile technologies in Pakistan with the invest-

for home users and even video without

Karachi: Microsoft
launched its fully pack-
aged products (FPP) for
the general consumer mar-
ket aimed specifically at
students and individual
home users. FPP offering
introduces genuine MS Of-
fice in Home and Student
editions at a price 40 per
cent lower than its former
price. The single full pack-
aged product allows for li-
censed installation on 3
computers for the price of
one-a benefit unique to the
FPP. The launch of FPP
marks Microsoft's global
initiative to expand avail-
ability and access to gen-
uine software in emerging
markets where Microsoft
Pakistan is determined to
bring benefits of technol-
ogy to more than one bil-
lion people by 2015.
ever having to change USB
drives or search other
portable storage devices
containing specific content.
Kingston’s DataTraveler
150 is fully compatible
with Windows Vista, XP
and Windows 2000 as well
as Mac OS X 10.3 and
Linux 2.6. As with all
Kingston USB drive prod-
ucts, the DT 150 carries a
fully guaranteed five-year
warranty and free tech
support.
ment of $ 20 million. Al-Minhal Group would also tele-
cast the transmissions and programmes of various
Pakistani TV channels around the world through mo-
bile phones and internet. These services would also en-
able the subscriber to find out the locations of their
friends and relatives and to trace the snatched or stolen
mobile phone sets as well.
Operators to stop unregistered SIMs
Islamabad: Pakistan those who violate the PTA
Telecommunication Author- instructions. Moreover, the
ity (PTA) has issued instruc- business of franchisees and
tion to all mobile operators to retailers involved in such
immediately stop the sale of practice will be closed per-
unregistered SIMs. "Strict ac- manently," said a PTA offi-
tion will be taken against cial.

Siemens to deliver SAP ERP software

Karachi: Yoshikazu Uda
Chairman Aisha Steel Mills
Ltd and Waqas Naved Sid-
diqi General Manager ITS
Siemens Pakistan signed an
agreement on behalf of their
respective organisations in
the presence of key repre-
sentatives of both compa-
nies.
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Aisha Steel Mills, Pakistan's
largest upcoming private
sector cold rolling complex
at Karachi will implement
SAP ERP modules including
financials, supply chain and
project systems. This soft-
ware will provide optimum
tracking and management
of plant commissioning ac-
tivities as well as better con-
trol over procurement and
supply chain operations, en-
abling increased efficiencies,
better supply chain visibility
and quicker decision mak-
ing. Siemens Pakistan
would offer complete SAP
consulting and training
services in this regard to
Aisha Steel project team.
SAP is the world number
one ERP system and
Siemens, the first company
to implement SAP ERP in
Pakistan is also the leading
SAP partner having to its
credit the maximum num-
ber of SAP ERP implemen-
tations locally. The initial
capacity of the project is
220000 tons, which will be
expanded to 350000 tons in
the second phase. The proj-
ect will manufacture Cold
Rolled Coils to cater to the
requirements of the automo-
bile, engineering and do-
mestic appliances
industries.
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PASHA gives away ICT Awards

In its 4th year, the Awards event recognises
creativity and innovation in the local ICT sector
and encourages excellence, the emergence of
new ideas and entrepreneurship and was at-
tended by a 300 strong contingent from the cor-
porate sector, the ICT sector, the government
and faculty and university students. The win-
ners of the P@SHA ICT Awards 2008 go on to
participate at the Asia Pacific ICT Awards
(APICTA) in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 2007 Pakistan
picked up the Best in Financial Applications and
Best in Communications Awards at APICTA in
Singapore competing against countries like Aus-
tralia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and oth-
ers. The judges committee for the PASHA ICT
Awards comprised of Dr Aamir Matin, GM
Cisco Pakistan, Saba Kamal, IBM Pakistan,
Jawwad Farid, Alchemy and Imran Zia, Chair-
man P@SHA.
TPS Pvt. Limited ran away with the top award
A group photograph of ICT Award winners
with the management of P@sha.
in the strong contended Financial Applications
Category with PixSense winning the Digital
Media & Entertainment Award hands down.
This year Palmchip’s GeoTel Application had to
compete against the likes of Five Rivers Tech-
nologies Sirius handheld and Jahanzeb Sher-
wani’s HealthLine PhD Research project.
Several young companies were amongst the
winners this year – among them SeenReport, the
Citizen Journalism site which incubated at
LUMS and Chopaal; also a project from LUMS
was judged to be the best in the E-Inclusion and
E-Community Applications category.
Kraysis won the Startup Company Award and
Nuvica won the Innovative Work Environment
Award. Jahanzeb Sherwani, the young man
whose product Jaadu VNC is selling on Apple
Computers iPhone AppStore for $25, won the
Communications Award. He is finishing his
final year of PhD at Carnegie Melon and is al-
ready a shining star of the Pakistan ICT sector.
The P@SHA Award for Brand Development was
picked up by Kalsoft whose corporate identity
has been totally revamped and is one of the
strongest in the region. This year the Award for
CSR went to Syed Azhar A. Rizvi who spear-
headed the telemedicine effort in the earthquake
affected region on behalf of the industry.

Samsung’s worldwide popularity LG launches andset Pakistan’s first in-car

According a report by Dis-
play search on the LCD TV
market share status, Sam-
sung remained the top
company with 20.4 per cent
market share selling
4.837M units followed by
Sony which took up 13.0
per cent of the share selling
3.069M units, LG with 10.0
per cent or 2.357M units,
Philips with 9.4 per cent or
2.214M units and Sharp
with 9.4 per cent or 2.053M
units.
Mr Khurram Farooq Mar-
keting Manager, AV divi-
sion, Samsung Pakistan
said, “Samsung is doing
well because we have won
the trust and hearts of the
high-end consumer seg-
ment through strong tech-
nology and design
know-how, luxurious dis-
plays, powerful brand
image, and premium mar-
keting that appeals to local
consumers. We will con-
tinue to step up our mar-
keting campaign to further
strengthen our position as
the most powerful leader in
the TV market in this re-
gion.”
According to Asia-Pacific
GfK report, Samsung
topped the LCD TV market
both in terms of units and
revenue. According to the
report Samsung enjoyed a
market share by volume of
26.9 per cent in the UAE
and 40.8 per cent in Saudi
Arabia. In the Middle East
and African LCD TV mar-
ket Samsung achieved a
phenomenal 163 per cent
growth rate during 1H of
2008 to become the top
seller with 23.6 per cent
market share.
Karachi: LG Electronics, a
worldwide technology and
design leader in mobile
communications, anounced
the official launch of its LG-
KC910. This is a slim yet
feature-packed full touch-
screen 8 mega pixel multi-
media phone. This artistic
new handset, known as
Renoir, has a large palate of
features like Wi-Fi, Dolby
Mobile from Dolby Labora-
tories, Inc., and camera ca-
pabilities that even surpass
those found on standalone
digital cameras.
PTCL to invest
Rs 14bn
Islamabad: Senior Execu-
tive Vice President (SEVP),
Finance, Pakistan Telecom-
munication Company Lim-
ited (PTCL),Naimatullah
Khan said the company
navigation system
Lahore: Tracking World (Pvt) and Data Solutions (Pvt)
Ltd announced Pakistan s first full-featured personal and
in-car navigation system. Based on tracking World experi-
ence of more than five years in automatic vehicle location
(AVL), and Data Solutions 11 years of expertise in geo-
graphic information systems (GIS), the two companies
have joined hands to introduce a product that many did
not think was possible in Pakistan for several years.
Appropriately called the Pakistan navigator, the product
employs Garmin’s world renowned and trend-setting
array of global positioning system (GPS) devices as its
hardware platform. Based on live data from up to 11 satel-
lites in orbit around the earth, a GPS device calculates its
position – latitude, longitude, altitude on earth and dis-
plays it on a screen. It thus shows a user his or her exact
location on the map.

PTCL signs Motorola would invest Rs 14 billion

during the incumbent year
to upgrade its services
Telenor posts $397m across the country.
Lahore: Tracking World and Data Solutions announce first full-fea-
tured personal and in-car navigation system.

Islamabad: Pakistan
Telecommunication Com-
pany Limited has signed an
agreement with Telenor
Pakistan for the provision
of its Skylink brand Satel-
lite communication serv-
ices. PTCL will provide the
Skylink advanced satellite
communication solution to
enable backhaul of GSM
traffic from Telenor Pak-
istan sites located in rural
and remote areas to PTCL
hub station located near Is-
lamabad.
loss in Q3
Motorola Inc. says it had
a hefty loss in the third
quarter due to the contin-
ued troubles of its cell
phone division and says it
is postponing the planned
spin-off of the unit, origi-
nally planned for the third
quarter of next year. The
maker of communications
gear said it lost $397 mil-
lion in the July-September
period.
5pc service charges on prepaid customers
Mostly cellular phone
companies have started de-
ducting five per cent serv-
ice charges from customers
on balance upload through
pre-paid cards and easy-
load. With the addition in
this extra charges, the over-
all burden of tax and serv-
ices have increased up to 36
per cent on the Pakistani
consumers, who are al-
ready paying the highest
level of taxes compared to
international benchmarks.
As per the latest report of
the PTA, the teledensity of
mobile phones has reached
55.60 in the country that
means almost half its popu-
lation has access to mobile
phones with more than 90
million subscribers.
In fiscal year 2007-08, cel-
lular phone companies
added 22.36 million sub-
scribers on their network
amid cutthroat competition
among them. However, the
sales of phone connections
have gradually declined in
the country in the first two
months of the current fiscal
year with an addition of 1.5
million subscribers. How-
ever, the average monthly
sales of mobile phone con-
nections remained 1.8 mil-
lion in the last fiscal year.
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Telenor leads in helping quake-victims
Islamabad: Telenor
Pakistan has initiated a
relief package for the vic-
tims of the recent earth-
quake in Balochistan. The
company has established
an emergency relief fund,
using which a dedicated
team is going into the field
to provide packages con-
taining food, blankets,
tents and other essential
items. At the same time,
Telenor Pakistan employ-
ees are donating from their
salaries for further relief
activities. The company
Mobilink Infinity - Pakistan’s 2nd Wimax Network
Karachi: The second
commercial Wimax net-
work went live in Pakistan
recently. Mobilink has
launched its Wimax brand
called Mobilink Infinity.
The network is essentially
802.16 e-based mobile
Wimax and has been
launched in Karachi, the
commercial capital of
Pakistan and also world’s
second most populous city
in the world with 16 mil-
lion citizens. The CPE
costs Rs 6,000 one-time
and monthly subscriptions
are available in 256 kbps,
IT Minister monitors BBSUDP
Karachi: Provincial
Minster for IT, Mohammad
Raza Haroon paid a sur-
prise visit to various pre-
qualified institutions dur-
ing interviews being held
for Benazir Bhutto Shaheed
Youth Development
Programme. During the
visit Minster IT stressed the
Huawei at P&T/Expo Comm China 2008
Huawei Technologies Co.,
Ltd. exhibited its innovative
mobile broadband solutions
- including DORA, HSDPA,
HSUPA, HSPA＋, Wimax
and LTE technologies - at
p&T/Expo Comm China
2008 that was held in
Beijing,
China."Convergence,
Broadband, Green and
Evolution" has become
Huawei’s core development
mantra in the mobile broad-
band area. As an advanced
global supplier to the
has also initiated a channel
for its customers to con-
tribute toward relief for the
quake-hit victims. The cus-
tomers can donate Rs 10
for the victims by sending
SMS at 767. The company
is also arranging to pro-
vide free communication
facility to select rescue and
relief workers operating in
the affected area.
The company has also
committed to make its
TeleDoctor service com-
pletely free from Friday
night for Telenor prepaid
512 kbps and 1 mb cate-
gories. The integrated
VoIP based analog voice
port allows local loop
telephony to the user with
preferential rates for the
(dominating) Mobilink
network.Earlier Pakistan
got the worlds largest
nationwide Wimax
Network from Wateen
Telecom, a new telecoms
business venture of the
Abu Dhabi Group that
also owns the popular cel-
lular brand Warid in
Pakistan (and now in some
other countries - Congo
need for selection of
deserving candidates meet-
ing pre-test criteria for
training. He himself made
telephone calls to students
to enquire whether or not
they have been informed
for interviewes. Minster IT
informed that these inter-
views are being conducted
GSM/WCDMA/HSPA/LTE
industry, Huawei is dedicat-
ed to cooperating with lead-
ing carriers and silicon chip
vendors to drive the com-
mercialization of HSPA+ at
P&T/Expocomm China
2008. Huawei also demon-
strated HSPA+ technologies
using its 4th Generation BTS
together with Qualcomm’s
MDM8200 product which is
capable of supporting data
rates of up to 28 Mbps in the
downlink and 11 Mbps in
the uplink. Huawei’s
callers, calling from the
areas for basic medical
advice. The number to call
from any Telenor prepaid
number is 1911. The free
service will be available for
a limited period. The com-
pany has made special
arrangements to keep its
network running in Ziarat,
Pishin, Khanozai, Sanjavi,
Harnai, Qila Saifullah,
Muslim Bagh, Chaman,
Quetta for emergency com-
munications despite fuel
shortages and logistical
difficulties in the areas.
and Georgia). Wateen’s
Wimax (built on Motorola
Wimax gear) has received
mixed response and some
believe that the less than
perfect launch of the much
hyped product has more
to do with the company’s
operations rather than the
technology limitations.
The problems have accu-
mulated enough to give
Wimax a bad name. New
operators are expected to
avoid the technology name
(wimax) in their upcoming
products in the local mar-
ket due to this reason.
throughout the province
simultaneously and a num-
ber of teams of officers of
IT Department have been
sent to other Sindh districts
to monitor the selection
process. He directed the
managements of Institutes
to collect applications of
disabled students so that
they could also be accom-
modated.
Beijing: Huawei stall at P&T Expo Comm China, 2008.
demonstrations showed that
HD video can be transmit-
ted with HSPA+ data
speeds maintaining a high-
quality image,” Mr Frank
Meng, President of
National
PTA to conduct countrywide survey
Islamabad: PTA, in col-
laboration with all mobile
operators, would carry out
a countrywide survey
from November 10 to 15 in
order to find out those
who are selling SIMs with-
out the proper documenta-
tion and impose penalties
up to Rs 350 million on the
operators found involved
in it. “We are going to
hold a random survey in
which thousands from
selected samples will be
asked questions to ascer-
Orascom shuffles management
Orascom Telecom
announces management
changes: Alex Shalaby pro-
moted to Chairman of
ECMS, Hassan Kabbani
new CEO of Mobinil
Tamer El Mahdy new CEO
of OTA Orascom Telecom
Holding S.A.E. (OTH)
announces that the board
of directors of the
Egyptian Company for
Mobile Services (ECMS)
nominated Mr Alex
Shalaby to become its
chairman.
Accordingly, effective
September 1, 2008, Alex
Shalaby, current CEO of
Mobinil, is promoted to
Chairman of the Board of
Directors of ECMS and
will be replacing Naguib
Sawiris in this position. In
addition, Alex Shalaby will
resume his responsibilities
in heading OTH’s Business
Development department.
Effective the same date,
Hassan Kabbani, current
Qualcomm Greater China
said.In May 2008, StarHub
appointed Huawei to
expand and upgrade its
nationwide 3.5G mobile
broadband network to
Synopsis
tain whether franchises of
mobile operators are
involved in selling SIMs
without proper docu-
ments,” PTA Chairman Dr
Mohammad Yaseen said.
The PTA chairman was
quite confident that
despite a difficult econom-
ic situation the sector
would continue to grow
and mobile subscriber
numbers would touch 100
million in next three to
four years compared to
existing 90 million.
CEO of Orascom Telecom
Algeria (OTA), will suc-
ceed Alex Shalaby as the
President and CEO of
Mobinil. Hassan Kabbani
was appointed CEO of
Orascom Telecom Algeria
- Djezzy in October 2003
and during his five year
tenure with OTA, the com-
pany has become the lead-
ing operator in Algeria
and a model of success in
the Algerian corporate
community.
Concurrently, Tamer El
Mahdy, OTH’s current
Chief Technology Officer,
will be replacing Hassan
Kabbani as Orascom
Telecom Algeria’s new
CEO. Tamer El Mahdy has
over 22 years of experience
in the telecommunications
industry, where he has
worked with a number of
multinational telecommu-
nication firms, including
Lucent Technologies and
AT&T.
HSPA+ by the second quar-
ter of 2009. This means that
StarHub's mobile network
will soon be able to offer
better overall mobile cover-
age across the entire island
of Singapore, both indoors
and outdoors, and support
even larger volumes of data
traffic than the current offer-
ings in the market. HSPA+
will boost StarHub's mobile
broadband capabilities by as
much as 1.5 times to 21
Mbps (from the current 14.4
Mbps) on the downlink, and
boost its uplink capability
fivefold to 11 Mbps (from
the current 1.9 Mbps).
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If you make a call of 10 min-

utes, as soon as you end the
call, a balance alert will auto-
matically appear at the screen
and you do not need to check
balance manually

arid has a very unique balance alert feature in its net-

W
work which it has been following since it got started.
The balance alert value added service informs you the
cost of last transaction and your remaining balance in prepaid
account whenever you make a call, send a SMS or use
GPRS/EDGE. So, if you make a call of 10 minutes, as soon as you
end the call, a balance alert will automatically appear at the
screen and you do not need to check balance manually (which
most people do). Unfortunately, this feature is only available
with Warid prepaid. Being a Warid postpaid customer, you may
miss this feature. As there is no remaining balance, at least Warid
can just mention the cost of last call, SMS or whatever it is in an
automatic balance alert. That will also be a great addition to
Warid postpaid.

You can collect 1 free minute on every

1 minute call made to any network but
the earned free minutes can only be
used for Mobilink to Mobilink calls

he new Jazz 1+1 offer now allows you to collect bonus minutes.

T
minutes will be added to your
For every minute you talk, you get a minute for free. However, account during November 15 to
Mobilink says the new Jazz 1+1 offer is valid for calls made to any 30 and will be valid only for 10
network but there is a trick. You can collect 1 free minute on every 1 days. To check the transfer of
minute call made to any network but the earned free minutes can only free minutes and remaining
be used for Mobilink to Mobilink calls. This offer is applicable on all Jazz free minutes, dial 123 and then
Packages. press 8.
To start collecting your free minutes do not forget to subscribe to the Please remember that you can earn free minutes from all calls but can
service first. You can subscribe by sending a SMS at 550. After subscrib- consume them only on Mobilink to Mobilink calls. This is also a limited
ing, make calls and collect your free minutes till November 15. The free time offer.

It includes all systems and applica-

tions that are required to operate
and manage a state-of-the-art facili-
ty in line with international best
practices and standardisations
ateen, Pakistan's largest Wimax network provider is launching

W
the country's first Hosted Contact Centre solution. Wateen
offers a low-cost, highly available and robust service to meet
an increasing demand of reliable and redundant technology that enables
companies to better manage their communication needs with their cus-
tomer base.
Pakistan's first Hosted Contact Centre solution includes all systems
and applications that are required to operate and manage a state-of-the-
art facility in line with international best practices and standardisations.
It provides businesses and other customers, the opportunity to out-
source their
business operations thereby assuring business continuity, decreasing
operational expenses and impacting the company's bottom line. "A
Hosted Contact Center solution is the need of the hour. Allowing com-
panies to have access to a low cost, reliable solution like ours will help
businesses to expand faster and improve the overall economy. With
technology playing a critical role in letting companies better serve their
customers, Wateen's Hosted Contact Center solution is exactly what they
need," comments CEO of Wateen, Tariq Malik.

TCL has finally launched a voice messaging service (VMS)

P
for its valued customers. VMS allows you to receive mes-
sages from your callers when you are too busy to pick up
the phone. With VMS, you can take messages, when you are not
even at your home. The functionality of VMS is very simple.
After a pre-selected number of ringers, the call will automatically
be re-directed to your mailbox. The caller will then leave a mes-
sage for you in your mailbox and you can access to your mes-
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sages in your mailbox 24
hours a day. The maxi-
mum length of a message
could be up to 30 seconds and a message could stay in your mail-
box for a maximum of 7 days. The service is free of charge and is
currently available in 38 cities of Pakistan. You can activate or
de-activate this service by simply dialling 1236 from your PTCL
number.

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Technology designed for handicapped Google to pay in online

Düsseldorf: Folding elec-
tronic carts and text-reading
mobile phones are just
some of the latest gadgets
exhibited at the recent Re-
hacare Fair in Dusseldorf
for the handicapped.
Around 758 exhibitors from
30 countries attended the
show. The first there's Lug-
gie, a folding electronic cart
intended as a travel aid.
Folded, it is about as big as
a suitcase and weighs 21.5
kilograms including batter-
ies. Its patented mechanics
allows the suitcase to un-
fold in seconds and turning
into a cart with a maximum
speed of 6.5 kilometres an
hour and the capacity to
climb grades of up to eight
degrees. Meanwhile, Handy
Tech presented its dictating
mobile. Its KNFB Reader
software is a breakthrough
in mobile text recognition
for the blind and visually
impaired. At the press of a
button, printed text can be
processed, recognised and
read aloud. There was also
a "senior mouse" for visitors
to try out. Unlike a stan-
dard mouse, a user's hand
does not have to cover the
mouse entirely and it does
not have to be steady either.
As the mouse is shaped like
a bowl, it fits into the user's
hand. It can compensate for
shaking, keeping unin-
tended movements from
registering on the com-
puter.
books settlement
New York: Google Inc
has reached a legal settle-
ment with authors and
major publishers that paves
the way for readers to
search through millions of
copyrighted books online,
browse passages and pur-
chase copies. Google will
pay $125 million to create a
Book Rights Registry,
where authors and publish-
ers can register works and
receive compensation from
institutional subscriptions
or book sales.
The settlement with the
Authors Guild and the As-
sociation of American Pub-
lishers draws to close a
three-year legal challenge
of Google's plan to make
many of the world's great
books searchable online.

123people search engine expands to US

Washington: 123people.com, a free search engine which
Apple reworks its laptop line
scours the Internet and gathers and displays information California: Quicker graph- class that includes machines casing created in that
about people, has expanded to the United States. "After ics, cutting edge processors, for less than 300 dollars.The process weighs no more
months of private beta tweaking and adding new features and a completely novel alu- rebuilt computer starts with than 100 grams. The re-
to improve the high powered people search, 123 People minium casing: those are a new production method. mainder of the laptop's
launches to the US public," the European-based website an- the highlights of the com- "Apple has invented a components are mounted
nounced in a blog posting at 123people.com. pletely reworked laptop line whole new way of building into the shell. This compli-
123 People collects publicly available information about from Apple, as presented by notebooks from a single cated process has to date
people from social network profiles, blog entries, news arti- CEO Steve Jobs at a recent block of aluminium," Steve only been applied to the
cles and other sources and displays links, pictures, videos, press conference in Cuper- Jobs explained. The com- high-end MacBook Air
email addresses and phone numbers. tino.Apple also announced pany is also responding to model to create its ex-
The first and last name of the person the user is seeking that the new lower prices environmentalists by using tremely flat casing. The
information about is entered into a search box on the for its portable computers, recyclable materials and MacBook Pro and MacBook
123people.com home page. The results are displayed on a including a MacBook start- avoiding components that models will be also created
single web page. 123 People, which previously only oper- ing at 950 dollars. Many are damaging to the envi- in the same way. Only the
ated in Europe, is the latest people search engine to hit the fans were nevertheless dis- ronment. The company's lower priced introductory
US market and joins the ranks of such start-ups as pipl.com, appointed that Apple chose products have received model, the MacBook White,
wink.com, spock.com, peekyou.com and yoname.com. not to enter into the inex- poor grades on the green still comes in a white plastic
pensive net-book market, a front in the past. The final casing.

Cell phone wallets in queue Nokia signs up Microsoft returns to numeric

Helsinki: The potentially
lucrative business of cell
phone wallets is waiting
for banks and telecom op-
erators to agree on each
other's role and possible
revenue flow in the future.
Technology for paying
with cell phones by just
flashing them near read-
ing equipment in stores or
in public transport is
ready, and consumers
have appreciated the ease
of its use in trials around
the world.
The world's biggest pay-
ment card company, Mas-
tercard, unveiled a service
for banks, enabling them
to install payment cards
into clients’ cell phones
much easier than earlier,
possibly breaking the
deadlock over the market
takeoff.
It would still take at
least until 2010 before any
wider availability of
phones equipped with
such technology and the
financial industry and
telecom operators would
need to agree on some
kind of revenue and role
split.
Orascom
Helsinki: Nokia has
signed up Orascom Tele-
com Holding as a customer
for its Internet services.
Orascom Telecom had
more than 77 million clients
at end-June in Algeria, Pak-
istan, Egypt, Tunisia,
Bangladesh and Zim-
babwe. Nokia is the first
handset maker to move
strongly into web content
services as growth in its
traditional cell phone mar-
ket stalls.
Washington: Microsoft functionality without get-
has announced that its suc- ting in the user's way.
cessor to Windows Vista
will be called Windows 7.
Microsoft reportedly de-
cided to abandon the nam-
ing schemes of the recent
past in favour of the sim-
pler numerical names of the
Windows 3.1 era.
Users have come to view
Vista as too complicated,
and a return to the numeri-
cal naming scheme is meant
to underscore a return to
Microsoft's roots: delivering

Yahoo, AOL in due dili-

gence on combination
San Francisco: Yahoo
Inc and Time Warner Inc's
AOL unit are engaged in
"meaningful" due dili-
gence about a possible
combination, but a deal is
not imminent. Talks be-
tween the two sides have
advanced in the past
"couple of weeks" and are
currently focused on what
a combined company
might look like and where
costs could be saved, said
the source that was not
authorised to speak pub-
licly as the discussions are
confidential.
Deaf people lobby MPs over phones
Deaf campaigners fight-
ing for equal access to the
telephone are lobbying
MPs at a reception in par-
liament. Consortium
group TAG said deaf peo-
ple are being held back in
their jobs and lives be-
cause phone technology is
no longer easily available
or affordable. Chairman
Ruth Myers said: "No-one
can participate fully in
today's fast-moving soci-
ety without easy and af-
fordable access to the
telephone. "Much better
access has been shown to
be within grasp, but most
of the services that deliver
it have folded because
they are too expensive for
deaf individuals. TAG's
reception for MPs is being
held at Portcullis House
under its campaign
"Bringing Deaf Telecoms
into the 21st Century".
The group represents all
the main UK deaf organi-
sations concerned with
telecoms and broadcast-
ing.
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Microsoft anti-piracy move irks China official
Beijing: A top Chinese
copyright official chided
Microsoft for launching an
anti-piracy tool that nags
users of counterfeit soft-
ware with a black com-
puter screen and said the
company's prices were too
high. The US software
giant launched "Windows
Genuine Advantage," a
programme that turns the
background of the Win-
dows operating system's
desktop black if the soft-
ware fails a validation test.
The move prompted law-
suit threats and howls of
indignation in China,
where the vast majority of
computer users are be-
lieved to be using pirated
versions, unwittingly or
not. National Copyright
Administration (NCA)
Vice-Director Yan Xiao-
hong said his agency sup-
ported "the
rights-safeguarding move
taken by institutions in-
cluding Microsoft.” But
companies should "pay at-
tention to the methods",
Yan said. "Whether the
'black-out' method should
be adopted is open to ques-
tion. Measures for safe-
guarding rights also need
to be appropriate," Yan
said. Microsoft has de-
fended the programme as a
measure to protect its intel-
lectual property and help
customers determine that
they have legal software.
Methods to subvert the
programme were circu-
lated on Chinese blogs and
Internet chat-rooms within
days of its launch. "Mi-
crosoft should be fined $1
billion," the paper quoted
the lawyer as saying. Yan
said Microsoft's price poli-
cies needed to "fit the Chi-
nese situation".
Yahoo to cut at
least 1400 jobs
Yahoo reported its third-
quarter net income tum-
bled 64 per cent as the
company lowered its year
revenue guidance and said
it would reduce its global
work force by at least 10
per cent.Yahoo plans to im-
plement further cost-cut-
ting actions to reduce its
current annualised cost run
rate of about $3.9 billion by
more than $400 million by
the end of the year.

iPhone squeezes US US working ladies prefer computers

phone carriers' margins
New York: Profits at the
three largest US phone car-
riers are being squeezed by
steep discounts on ad-
vanced cell phones, trig-
gered by AT and T Inc's
hefty subsidy for the
iPhone. AT and T, Verizon
Communications Inc and
Sprint Nextel Corp are ex-
10.7m mobile users in September
New Delhi: Indian mo-
bile telephone operators
added 10.07 million users
in September, the largest
rise since a record 10.16
million subscribers signed
up in March, the Telecom
Regulatory Authority of
10.7m mobile users in
September
New Delhi: Indian mo-
bile telephone operators
added 10.07 million users
in September, the largest
rise since a record 10.16
million subscribers signed
up in March, the Telecom
Regulatory Authority of
pected to show a drop in
wireless profit margins
when they report third-
quarter results in coming
weeks, also feeling the
pinch from consumers
holding off on buying add-
on services like data to
lower their phone bills in
the weak economy.
India said. India, the
world's fastest-growing
wireless market and the
second-largest market after
China, had 315.31 million
mobile users at the end of
September, the regulator
said.
India said. India, the
world's fastest-growing
wireless market and the
second-largest market
after China, had 315.31
million mobile users at the
end of September, the reg-
ulator said.
Washington: Nearly all
American women office
workers say they like or
love this major player in
their lives, even if it causes
many of them pain, a study
showed. But they are not
talking about their partner,
family, a friend or even
personal trainer – they are
talking about their com-
puter.
Bangladesh mobile
users drop
Dhaka: The number of mo-
bile phone users in
Bangladesh fell by 310,000
in September to 45.09 mil-
lion as all three top compa-
nies lost their subscribers,
the first time the sector re-
ported a monthly fall.The
number of subscribers at
Grameenphone, mostly con-
trolled by Norway's Telenor,
fell to 20.82 million in Sep-
tember from 20.84 million in
August, the Bangladesh
Telecommunication Regula-
tory Commission said. The
number of subscribers fell as
operators cut off unregis-
tered SIM cards after the
government introduced new
regulations requiring per-
sonal details to be recorded
due to security concerns.
An online poll of more
than 2,600 US adults con-
ducted by Harris Interac-
tive showed that women
office workers spend nearly
triple the amount of time
with their computer as they
do with their significant
other - 9.3 hours with the
disk drive and keyboard
compared with 3.6 hours
with their human partner.
And only one in five of the
women said she wished she
could spend more time
with her partner than with
MySpace Music
expands
San Francisco: MySpace an-
nounced a partnership with
digital music distribution
company IODA on that will
bring more than one million
songs from independent
artists to the recently
launched MySpace Music.
MySpace said the agreement,
terms of which were not dis-
her computer, even if the
latter caused them pain,
often in the form of carpal
tunnel syndrome, accord-
ing to the poll. Nearly two-
thirds spend more time
with their computer than
they do shopping or out-
doors, eight in 10 spend
more time with the tower
and screen than do exercis-
ing, and four in 10 are with
the computer more than
with their family.
That is understandable,
given that the 8.2 hours
spent on average by Ameri-
cans at work make up the
largest slice of the pie chart
for time use on an work
day for employed persons,
aged 25 to 54, with chil-
dren, according to the US
Bureau of Labour Statistics.
closed, will make IODA's cat-
alog of indie artists available
for streaming on MySpace
Music, which the social net-
working giant launched a
month ago with major music
labels.The San Francisco-
based IODA, the Independ-
ent Online Distribution
Alliance, is one of the largest
online distributors of Indie
music labels along with The
Orchard, already a MySpace
Music partner.

Technology to adopt human rights code of conduct

Washington: US technology giants Google,
Microsoft and Yahoo and a coalition of human
rights and other groups unveiled a code of con-
duct aimed at safeguarding online freedom of
speech and privacy. The Global Network Initia-
tive, bringing together leading companies,
human rights organisations, academics and in-
vestors, commits the technology firms to "pro-
tect the freedom of expression and privacy
rights of their users."
The initiative, which follows criticism that the
companies were assisting censorship of the In-
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ternet in nations such as China, requires them to
narrowly interpret government requests for in-
formation or censorship and to fight to min-
imise co-operation.
A number of US companies including Mi-
crosoft, Cisco, Google and Yahoo have been
hauled before the US Congress in recent years
and accused of complicity in building what has
been called the "Great Firewall of China."
Google has been criticised for complying with
Chinese government's demands to filter Inter-
net searches to eliminate query results regard-
ing topics such as democracy or Tiananmen
Square.
Earlier this month, Skype, the online text mes-
sage and voice service owned by auction giant
eBay, acknowledged that its Chinese partner,
TOM Online, had been archiving politically sen-
sitive text messages. Microsoft has come under
fire for blocking the blog of a prominent Chi-
nese media researcher who posted articles criti-
cal of a management purge at the Beijing News
daily. Internet firms contend they must comply
with China's laws in order to operate there.
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Samsung re-enters US laptop market
San Francisco: Diversified electronics
maker Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said it
is re-entering the US computer market
with a range of branded products that
build on its component supply strengths.
It will introduce new ultra-light note-
books designed to appeal to potential
buyers of Apple Inc's ground-breaking
MacBook Air and smaller "netbook" mod-
els from the likes of Asustek Computer.
Breaking into the crowded U.S. market
involves taking share from more estab-
lished players. The Korean electronics
maker sees other Asian brand-name play-
ers as vulnerable, especially Toshiba
Corp, Sony Corp and Lenovo. Samsung is
also coming out with models aimed at
business professionals and the market for
bulkier laptops known as "desktop re-
placements," a Samsung executive said.
Like Apple's Air, Samsung's X-Series pre-
mium lightweight notebooks come with
options for either a hard drive or solid
state memory. But Samsung's X360 is
priced at $2,499 and carries 128 gigabytes
of flash memory, twice the 64 gigabytes
that comes with the Apple Air selling for
$2,598.
Washington: Research in
Motion Ltd (RIM) released
its first mobile phone with a
touch-screen. The smart-
phone, the Blackberry
Storm, will be available
later this year through Veri-
zon Wireless in the United
States and Vodafone in Eu-
rope, India, Australia and
New Zealand, the Canadian
Company said.
The Storm resembles the
iPhone but its colour touch-
screen differs in that it is
"clickable" - the screen de-
presses slightly when
touched like a typewriter
key. Other features of the
Storm include wireless
email through high-speed
3G mobile broadband net-
works, an HTML Web
browser which allows
audio and video streaming
and SMS, MMS and IM
messaging. It also features a
media player, a 3.2-
megapixel camera, a video
camera and GPS capability
along with Blackberry
Maps.

Japan's 'Cyberdyne' robot suit Home kidney dialysis to use HP technology

Tsukuba: A Japanese pro-
fessor announced he was
introducing robot suits for
paralysed people, helping
them to walk again by de-
tecting their next move and
lifting their muscles. "The
time has come to introduce
this technology to the
world," Yoshiyuki Sankai, a
professor at Tsukuba Uni-
versity near Tokyo, an-
nounced at a news
conference.
"I believe technology be-
YouTube’s money-minting move
You Tube added links to
online stores in a move
crafted to pump more
money from the hot video-
sharing website Google
bought nearly two years
ago in a 1.65 billion dollar
stock deal.
Google has bided its time
working on ways to ‘mone-
tize’ You Tube without
alienating notoriously tran-
sient Internet users that
could easily switch to Hulu,
Daily Motion or other rivals
in the online video-sharing
arena. ‘Click-to-buy’ links
are being discretely placed
comes useful only when it
works for people," he said
at Cyberdyne's new office.
"I refuse any possible mili-
tary use of my robot suits."
Cyberdyne will start leas-
ing 500 units of the battery-
powered robot suit to assist
paralysed patients at hospi-
tals and rehabilitation cen-
tres. Sankai showed video
footage of a man paralysed
to the waist down standing
and walking as he wore the
robotic limbs.
in control panels below You
Tube videos to invite peo-
ple to visit online shops
iTunes or Amazon.com to
buy music, books, films or
other material related to
snippets watched.
Links to online stores are
making a US debut on
videos of EMI Music artists
and of the Spore computer
game recently released by
Electronic Arts. Such “retail
links” will be gradually
added to You Tube’s library
of music videos, according
to the northern California
firm.
In a novel use of printer
technology, Hewlett-
Packard said that it has
reached an agreement with
the manufacturer of a home
kidney dialysis system that
will use some of the appli-
cations from HP's inkjet
printers. The dialysis sys-
tem applies "fluid manage-
ment" concepts that were
developed to mix and
apply different coloured
inks, using them instead to
mix water and concen-
trated salt and electrolyte
Saudi-owned TV
website hacked
Dubai: Computer hackers
claiming to be Shiite shut
down the website of Saudi-
owned satellite channel Al-
Arabiya, a month after Iran
reported similar attacks on
many of its websites by
hard-line Sunnis. The web-
site of the Dubai-based
channel was taken over by
the hackers who displayed
a message which warned
that "if attacks on Shiite
websites continue, none of
your websites will be safe".
solution in a formula pre-
scribed by the patient's
doctor. It also uses HP
memory-chip technology to
monitor the mixture and
ensure that the correct for-
mula is used.
Home Dialysis Plus, the
private company develop-
ing the system, says its de-
vice will cause less physical
stress for patients because
they can use it every night
while they sleep, in a pat-
tern that more closely re-
sembles the function of
YouTube adds full-length
TV shows
San Francisco: YouTube
said it is adding full-length
television shows to the
menu at its globally popu-
lar website famous for
snack-sized video snippets.
Episodes of classic televi-
sion programmes including
"Star Trek," "MacGyver"
and "Beverly Hills 90210"
will be available in a "the-
atre view" format unveiled
at YouTube earlier this
week.
YouTube's "theatre view"
healthy kidneys, rather
than visiting a dialysis cen-
tre three times a week.
HP had previously an-
nounced an agreement
with an Irish company that
wants to devise a skin
patch for administering
medication, using HP's
inkjet system to measure
exact amounts of drugs that
would be injected through
microscopic needles. That
project is still under devel-
opment and must meet li-
censing hurdles.
feature enhances inset
video screens by making
them larger, centring them
on pages and bordering
them with virtual red cur-
tains. The enhancements
come as Google delicately
manoeuvres to begin mak-
ing money from YouTube
without alienating its le-
gions of fans, who could
easily switch loyalties to
rival video-sharing web-
sites such as Hulu or Daily
Motion.

Web technology cuts mobile calling fees

Boston: The cost of talking cell is coming
down, thanks to an increasing number of
options for using Internet calling services
on cell phones as an alternative to tradi-
tional cellular service plans. Nokia is one
of the biggest makers of cell phones with
Wi-Fi chips. Some high-profile devices are
equipped with the short-range wireless
technology, including Apple Inc's iPhone
and some BlackBerry models from Re-
search in Motion Ltd. The soon-to-be-re-
leased G1 Google phone from HTC Corp
and T-Mobile also sports a Wi-Fi chip. For
Mark Laris, a Dallas-based nuclear engi-
neer who travels the world running his
consulting business, the technology saves
him thousands of dollars a year on inter-
national phone bills. Wi-Fi chips and
Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, let
him do most of his business and personal
calls over cut-rate phone services that
work over the Web. His only cell phone
bill is a 1,400-minute-per-month family
plan from AT&T that he shares with a
business partner. The new phones are ca-
pable of operating just on Wi-Fi - they do
not necessarily have to use a cell phone
carrier at all - and when you're not in a
Wi-Fi "hot spot" they ring through to your
Wi-Fi carrier's voice mail. Still, mobile
VoIP is a fledgling field.
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