Technology - 10

Just as the Pakistan sun rises from the east over India in the early morning’s dawn, the same can be said about the rising telecommunications industry in this very interesting representative Phoenix of the Southern Asia region. There is a growth outbreak of industry and financial resources and, along with this activity, the infrastructure of [...]

Norway’s telecom giant Telenor has planned to invest $1 billion by 2010 in Pakistan’s mobile phone operation relating to infrastructure development, network expansion etc. The company is also likely to hire a new workforce of 400 people in the coming years from the present 350 employees. Telenor has so far invested 60 billion krona in [...]

A Tsunami forecast centre would be established in Pakistan. The centre will be established in Karachi, while two backup warning systems would be setup in Islamabad and Quetta. Tsunami waves created by 8.3 intensity earthquake had hit coastal town of Pasni in 1945 killing about 4000 people.

The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry on Wednesday launched country’s first business portal (www.b2bpak.com) meant to assist importers in sourcing raw materials and machinery besides helping exporters to introduce Pakistani products without any extra cost. The website will also provide the business community a forum to interact on business matters besides enabling the users [...]

Two major Pakistani management institutes are already in touch with IIM-Lucknow in this connection. In fact, the director general of the National University of Science and Technology (NUST), a premier management institute in Rawalpindi, has expressed his desire to visit IIM-Lucknow. Efforts in this direction were initiated during the meetings of the Association of Management [...]

To be called the Information Technology (IT) Cadre, in the public sector to induct finest IT professionals (with specialisation in programming, web development, network/database/system administration, software engineering, systems analysis and project management through the Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC) and Provincial Public Service Commission (PPSC). Every year, the finest Pakistani IT brains are lured by [...]

REDtone Telecommuncation Pakistan Pte Ltd has received a Card Payphone Licence from the government. The licensee’s obligations are to install at least 500 card payphones per year, at least 10% of the total phones installed annually shall be in rural localities and to provide services within one year from the effective date in major Pakistan [...]

While many names are being pointed out regarding parties interested and serious in the privatisation of the telecom giant – PTCL – analysts and market men have started pointing the finger at SingTel – the telecom giant of Singapore – as the proposed buyer of the PTCL. When contacted, analysts mentioned that Temasek Holdings Pte [...]

Pakistan entered into a new phase of modern telecommunication technology with the operation of wireless local loop telephone service (WLL) in the private sector. He said that with the introduction of WLL service, the disparity between the Urban and Rural areas will no more be there and fade out in the next 2-3 years. However, [...]

Currently there are only a few national universities offering degree level courses in telecommunications and related engineering subjects. However, these universities were not producing engineers that could find jobs in telecom operations and other support functions. The sources said PTCL’s research and development fund was providing financial assistance to carry out research and development activity [...]