Yahoo! Messenger! for SMS! with Mobilink! in Pakistan! April 15, 2005
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The service connects Mobilink and Yahoo! messenger services. It allows Mobilink usrs to send a message to Yahoo! messenger users and vice versa. The Mobilink user has to pay for each SMS, but the Yahoo! user gets to send messages for free.
Full Press release: http://www.hardwarezone.com/news/view.php?id=1118&cid=4
Comparision of mobile call rates April 14, 2005
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The PTA’s own site at www.pta.gov.pk doesn’t usually work, so it is good to see that they have arranged for a mirror at http://pta.ire-s.com/index.php - this is not particularly fast, but it does work.
There is a good comparision of
prepaid tarrifs on http://pta.ire-s.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=542 and
postpaid tarrifs on http://pta.ire-s.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=542
Mobile number portability to start in January April 14, 2005
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All the six cellular mobile operators on Tuesday agreed to form a supervisory board to implement the MNP with assistance of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). The operators will equally share initial expenses in this regard.
In a meeting attended by the PTA chairman, PTA member (finance) and chief executive officers of Mobilink, Ufone, Paktel, Instaphone, Telenor and Warid Telecom, the modalities of the MNP were discussed at length.
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Optical Fiber Network Backbone April 12, 2005
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Multinet Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd. and Telekom Malaysia have announced a joint venture to lay the largest Optical Fiber Network Backbone in Pakistan. This network would consist of 4,500 Km of fully redundant rings.
Involving an investment of US$100,000,000 the press release expects the network to be finished within 18 months.
See http://www.multi.net.pk/longhaul/ for the full press release.
ZTE to setup R&D center in Pakistan April 9, 2005
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ZTE, China’s largest publicly traded telecommunications equipment maker, said it will set up a research and development center in Pakistan to serve the South Asian market.
ZTE’s involvement with Pakistan dates back to 1998, when it won its first foreign equipment order there, worth US$95 million (HK$741 million).
Two years later it opened a manufacturing facility there, its first outside China, which supplies telecom switching equipment to local customers. Last month, ZTE said it began production of code division multiple access equipment at a plant in Haryana, India, its first in that country.
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