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Zong’s Lahore Unlimited to Mobilink’s Karachi Limited: ProPakistani |  |
- Zong’s Lahore Unlimited to Mobilink’s Karachi Limited
- PTCL Bonanza Thrill Continues
- Telenor Opens Sales & Service Center in Abbottabad
- B.Tech Graduates in Middle of No Where, as Status of Degree is Still Undefined
- Jazz Jazba Introduces Motorola Flipout in Pakistan
- Internationalized Domain Names – Will We Experience?
| Zong’s Lahore Unlimited to Mobilink’s Karachi Limited Posted: 07 Feb 2011 04:38 PM PST
Zong's Lahore Unlimited to Mobilink's Karachi Limited is a post from: ProPakistani When Zong launched its operation in Pakistan, the boom that telecom sector has witnessed in recent years had somewhat dried up. However, company has well managed to attract the masses, mainly the youth. We have written in recent past, on how Zong managed to grab the highest number of subscribers in year 2010 by rightfully identifying the target customers and their needs. If you look at the timeline to further figure out the exact reason for rapid subscriber addition into Zong's pool, particularly in the second half of 2010, you won't come across any major tale, except the LBC packages or what they call location based Charges. Starting with Lahore Unlimited, and then stretching the same offer for Hyderabad, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Multan, Sialkot and then Karachi, it is said that Zong is offering its LBC packages in around or over 100 cities now. With its LBC packages, Zong offered unlimited free on-net calling for a flat daily charge of Rs. 7 – simple as that. That's around Rs. 250 per month (including taxes) and you get the freedom of calling all Zong Numbers for free, round the clock for the whole month. Apparently, and according to what other blogs are saying, Ufone and Mobilink were fascinated by Zong's performance, and in fact acknowledged it by following suite and offering special packages for those living in Karachi.
Naturally, both Ufone and Mobilink were not as generous as Zong is, due to their higher number of subscribers, both the operators ended up offering discounted but not ultra appealing packages for Karachiites. This earned both the operators not very good feedback, especially from those who compared them with Zong. An industry high-up while having conversation with me yesterday said that by offering these not-better-than-Zong packages, Mobilink and Ufone may not reap the optimum advantages as Zong did. He was of the opinion that Mobilink and Ufone could come forward and offer better-than-Zong or even equal-to-Zong packages in relatively smaller cities, to snatch the customers of other networks. "That's how Zong did it, if you want to follow Zong, follow it strictly", he precisely said. He further anticipated that LBC packages may become the next big thing after Sim Lagao Offers, while Zong will remain the king in this segment due to lower number of subscribers. Image via ApnaTime Related posts:
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| Posted: 07 Feb 2011 03:00 AM PST
PTCL Bonanza Thrill Continues is a post from: ProPakistani
This limited time offer is applicable to all PTCL landline and Vfone customers from 1st February till 28th February, 2011. With this bonanza thrill offer the PTCL customers can call from PTCL landline or vfone to Ufone, PTCL landline (local and NWD) and to Vfone (local and NWD) between 8pm to 8 am which will be charged for only first three (3) minutes and the remaining duration of the call will be free. Details:
Naveed Saeed, SEVP Commercial has said that PTCL has always provided the best packages and promotions to its customers and this particular promotion will enable customers to make longer duration calls to their loved ones without worrying about the bill. He further added that PTCL has always strived to provide its customers with the best and most affordable services. And the new packages will not only reinforce PTCL image as a customer centric organization but will also encourage the usage of landline among our customers. Importance of which can not be undermined even in a cellular oriented era. Related posts:
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| Telenor Opens Sales & Service Center in Abbottabad Posted: 07 Feb 2011 01:08 AM PST
Telenor Opens Sales & Service Center in Abbottabad is a post from: ProPakistani
Picture shows (L to R): Malik Faisal Qayyum, Director Sales & Distribution; Aamir Ibrahim, Chief Marketing Officer; and Zil Hasnain Baluch, Manager Sales & Customer Services (North) inaugurating the new center. The outlet will provide complete range of Telenor services to customers in Mansehra, Haripur, Nathiagali, Havelian and Sherwan. Related posts:
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| B.Tech Graduates in Middle of No Where, as Status of Degree is Still Undefined Posted: 06 Feb 2011 10:01 PM PST
B.Tech Graduates in Middle of No Where, as Status of Degree is Still Undefined is a post from: ProPakistani Earlier Dawn and Today 'The News' published this story which reveals a shocking fact that degree of B. Tech is undefined in Pakistan. Hence, anyone doing B. Tech or those who have done B. Tech may end up without any legal degree in the country, meaning that no further studies or jobs. By the way, as per estimates, 10,000 fresh graduates pass out with B. Tech degree every year. It seems, according to Sheikh Javed – Chairman Pakistan Council of Technologists, the situation has reached this level due to government's negligence. As it is the case with Cyber Law, R&D Fund, USF and various other institutes of the country. Following is excerpt from 'The News':
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| Jazz Jazba Introduces Motorola Flipout in Pakistan Posted: 06 Feb 2011 08:30 PM PST
Jazz Jazba Introduces Motorola Flipout in Pakistan is a post from: ProPakistani This year, On the occasion of Valentine Day as the best gift option, Jazz Jazba is offering Motorola Flipout, an android 2.1 powered touchscreen smartphone that can rotates to expose a full QWERTY keypad. Motorola FlipOut™ comes with 3.2 MP Camera, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Motorola FlipOut is supposed to offer 6 hours of talk time on GSM networks. Mobilink says that Motorola Flipout is available for Rs. 27,999 – which includes GPRS for three months. Check out following promo video for Motorola Flipout Where to Get Motorola Flipout? This handset is only available at the following Mobilink Customer Care Centers:
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| Internationalized Domain Names – Will We Experience? Posted: 06 Feb 2011 08:28 PM PST
Internationalized Domain Names – Will We Experience? is a post from: ProPakistani Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) are the domain names (or simply websites name) represented by local language characters. Present domain name architecture is based on ASCII characters (the English alphabets "a-z", numbers 0 to 9, and hyphens) and doesn't interpret non-ASCII character scripts (like Arabic, Hindi, Chinese). IDNs efforts are subject to ICANN resolution in 2000 stating "that it is important that the Internet evolve to be more accessible to those who do not use the ASCII character set,". Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is a California based not-for-profit corporation established on September 18, 1998. ICANN is responsible for coordination and policy making of two most critical Internet resources i.e. Domain Names and IP addresses. Some of the major tasks performed include Internet Protocol (IP) address space allocation, protocol identifier assignment, generic Top Level Domains (gTLDs) such as .com, .net, .org and country code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) such as .au, .uk, .pk name system management, and root server system management functions. We could say that ICANN is a kind of Regulator and Policy Maker for most significant Internet resources. IDNs are implemented at the application (web browser) layer. In this regards, Internationalized Domain Names in Applications (IDNA) standard was defined in 2003 followed by IDNA protocol development by IETF. Basic idea was to support non-ASCII domain names to a suitable ASCII-based form by web browsers and other user applications. All famous web browsers like Mozilla, Chrome, Netscape and Internet Explorer support IDNA. Successful IDN test launch has been accomplished for more than 22 International languages including Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Hindi, Korean and Urdu. According to details available at ICANN website (www.icann.org), official launch of IDNs ccTLD Fast Track was made on November 16, 2009. ICANN is accepting requests from representatives of countries and territories around the world for new Internet extensions that represent their country name and are made up of non-Roman characters (their official language). Enabling more than 1 billion non-English users showing their presence on Internet via IDNs is noteworthy step. Countries around the globe were taking a keen interest in this program since ICANN hold pre-launch consultation process for some years. This was the reason that the first requests were received on the same date i.e. 16 November 2009. Detail available at ICANN website explain that the first IDNs ccTLD were made available internationally on May 05, 2010 while the following countries had their respective IDNs inserted in the DNS root zone.
Further details of this remarkable program show that by this time ICANN has received a total of 33 requests for IDN ccTLD(s) through the String Evaluation process, representing 22 languages. A total of 22 countries/territories requests have successfully passed through the String Evaluation; 12 countries/territories IDN ccTLDs are delegated in the DNS root zone; and the rest are either in or ready for the requesting country or territory to initiate the application for String Delegation. Some of the countries whose IDN string has passed initial string evaluation are India, Morocco, Oman, Iran, Russia and Sri Lanka. The trend shows that most developing countries have took a great interest in facilitating their Internet users to write down a website name in their own local language. This would not only proliferate the Internet usage but will also help in bridging the digital divide. Unfortunately, there was no update found about Pakistan as an applicant for IDNs ccTLD. This is indeed a point of thinking since other regional countries are in process of IDNs introduction which is indeed an important opportunity to be availed. Neither Ministry of IT nor any other public institute has any news or update on the subject. Though it was heard year back that we will be applying for our IDN ( .پاکستان ) where PSEB would be acting as the management and administration of this Internet resource for the country. However, we are unable to find any such update at relevant corners. A question that arrives in mind is that will we be able to type in URDU domain names in our web browsers some day?. Related posts:
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