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	<title>Telecoms, internet in Pakistan</title>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Tata firm catches &#8216;Reliance spy&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://telecompak.wordpress.com/2007/02/15/tata-firm-catches-reliance-spy/</link>
		<comments>http://telecompak.wordpress.com/2007/02/15/tata-firm-catches-reliance-spy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>telecompak</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[VSNL has caught the PA to MD  passing on sensitive corporate information to arch rival Reliance Communications. He sold out for Rs40,000/-
This is an Indian story, not Pakistani, but its here since its interesting.
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		<title>Bitfrost, the OLPC security system</title>
		<link>http://telecompak.wordpress.com/2007/02/15/bitfrost-the-olpc-security-system/</link>
		<comments>http://telecompak.wordpress.com/2007/02/15/bitfrost-the-olpc-security-system/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>telecompak</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[OLPC]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since there is a remote chance of the &#8216;Gorement&#8217; buying into the OLPC project we present some reading on its security system. The author is Ivan Krstić.
The architecture-level non-technical specification for Bitfrost, the security platform on the One Laptop per Child machines.
A request for comments is here (the Wiki was overloaded and unreachable when I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign ISPs investing $150 million to start operation</title>
		<link>http://telecompak.wordpress.com/2007/02/14/foreign-isps-investing-150-million-to-start-operation/</link>
		<comments>http://telecompak.wordpress.com/2007/02/14/foreign-isps-investing-150-million-to-start-operation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>telecompak</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[ISP]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After Multinet and Dancom (both with Malaysian investors, though Dancom has been sold to Orascom after a fiasco to do with a mismanaged WLL bid), looks like there are some more investors are coming into the ISP sector. The more the merrier for the consumer.
I presume that media used will be wireless or cable. PTCL [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PTA Act Final with amendments (2006)</title>
		<link>http://telecompak.wordpress.com/2007/02/12/pta-act-final-with-amendments-2006/</link>
		<comments>http://telecompak.wordpress.com/2007/02/12/pta-act-final-with-amendments-2006/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2007 08:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>telecompak</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Regulators]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Law]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
The new, amended Act is here.  No it doesn&#8217;t say when it was amended, it was just changed in 2006 sometime.  
So whats changed? Some stuff about Crypto (using crypto is now legal, wow! Now when you browse a secure web page you are [probably] not breaking the law) , Rights of Way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nicholas Negroponte on OLPC</title>
		<link>http://telecompak.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/nicholas-negroponte-on-olpc/</link>
		<comments>http://telecompak.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/nicholas-negroponte-on-olpc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>telecompak</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Human Resources]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[IT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Interview
Posted on Thu, Feb. 08, 2007
By Dean Takahashi
Mercury News
Nicholas Negroponte took some time recently for an e-mail interview with Mercury News Columnist Dean Takahashi about his low-cost laptop project.
Q How long ago did you think of the One Laptop Per Child idea?
A This work dates back to my MIT colleague Seymour Papert&#8217;s early thinking (Logo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VoIP Illegal, PTA claims.</title>
		<link>http://telecompak.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/voip-illegal-pta-claims/</link>
		<comments>http://telecompak.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/voip-illegal-pta-claims/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:02:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>telecompak</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Idiots]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Regulators]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More idiotic pronouncements from the PTA. I would copy/paste the text, but the stuff is in the form of jpg.
 Sirjee, jpg is not searchable!!!!! If the PTA does not GET the web, its going to be a long time before it GETS voip&#8230;. sad.
Anyway it says that &#8220;there is a general perception that usage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telenor Selects Huawei to Build All-IP DWDM Network in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://telecompak.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/telenor-selects-huawei-to-build-all-ip-dwdm-network-in-pakistan/</link>
		<comments>http://telecompak.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/telenor-selects-huawei-to-build-all-ip-dwdm-network-in-pakistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>telecompak</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Mobile]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Wireless]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[TMCnet
Telenor Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd.  has awarded a contract to Huawei Technologies to build a nationwide all-IP based Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) network.
According to Peter Anthony Dindial, chief technical officer of Telenor Pakistan, the company is pleased to continue its business relationship with Huawei by adopting its DWDM technology.
Dindial said that the selection of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telekom Malaysia shows Pakistan some backbone</title>
		<link>http://telecompak.wordpress.com/2007/02/01/telekom-malaysia-shows-pakistan-some-backbone/</link>
		<comments>http://telecompak.wordpress.com/2007/02/01/telekom-malaysia-shows-pakistan-some-backbone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 05:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>telecompak</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fibre Optic]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Infrastructure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Syed Fazl-e-Haider 
QUETTA, Pakistan - Telekom Malaysia announced this week that the company is set to complete its US$100 million countrywide fiber-optic-backbone project in Pakistan - the largest fiber-optic network in the country - by October. 
In February 2005, Telekom Malaysia announced a joint-venture fiber-optic-backbone project with Multinet, a licensed provider of electronic information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving out of the city</title>
		<link>http://telecompak.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/moving-out-of-the-city/</link>
		<comments>http://telecompak.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/moving-out-of-the-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>telecompak</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Future]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Human Resources]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Staff turnover, salary inflation. Si3 is Pakistans leading IT Integrator, but is having a hard time keeping its people happy. CEO Amer Hashmi, in usual visionary mode, has decided to move all backend work out of the Karachi head office to, of all places, Multan. He now has 10 acres and a plan to build [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IP TV Licencing in Pakistan</title>
		<link>http://telecompak.wordpress.com/2007/01/26/ip-tv-licencing-in-pakistan/</link>
		<comments>http://telecompak.wordpress.com/2007/01/26/ip-tv-licencing-in-pakistan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jan 2007 05:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>telecompak</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Broadband]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Broadcast]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Regulators]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Transmission of TV over IP is regulated by PEMRA and the page to see is here.

	Duration of Licence:
 	5 YEARS 
	Application Processing Fee: (Non-refundable)
 	Rs.20,000 /- 
	Fee Structure:
                   Category 	Fee (Rs)
       [...]]]></description>
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