Telenor Pakistan Announces New CEO: ProPakistani

Telenor Pakistan Announces New CEO
Mobilink Employees Spread Warmth and Smiles Among Flood Victims
Warid Congratulates PTA and Telecom Industry on Achieving 100m Subscriber Mark
How to Report to Google, if Someone is Copying Your Content?
Pakistan Floods Last Summer Could Have Been Predicted: Research

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 09:24 AM PST

Telenor Pakistan Announces New CEO is a post from: ProPakistani

Christian Albech Telenor Pakistan Announces New CEO Telenor Pakistan today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Mr. Christian Albech as the company's new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).

Christian will succeed Mr. Jon Eddy Abdullah from March 1^st 2011.

Since its inception, Chirstian is third in a row non-Pakistani CEO of Telenor in dPakistan. After Tore Jhonsen and Jon Eddy, Gossips, were active that Telenor may appoint a local man for its operations in Pakistan.

It merits mentioning here that Telenor has replaced all VP level Norwegians with Pakistanis over the time.

Chirstian is appointed CEO at a time when Pakistani telecom market has become vigorously competitive with low margins low ARPUs and high opex.

Announcing the new CEO, Hilde Tonne, Chairman of the Board of Telenor Pakistan, and Deputy Head Telenor Group Asia Region said:

"The Board of Directors is very pleased to appoint Christian Albech as Telenor Pakistan's new CEO. His extensive management experience and ability to drive innovation and deliver results will be a great benefit for the company. We are confident that Christian has the right qualifications to further develop an already successful company"

Christian Albech has substantial experience from executive positions in the communication and media industry. He comes from the position as CEO of Telenor Broadcast, where he has been responsible for Telenor Group's portfolio of broadcast operations – Canal Digital, Telenor Satellite Broadcasting, Norkring and Conax. At the end of third quarter 2010, these operations represented 9 percent of Telenor Group's total revenues.

In his career, Christian Albech has been central in establishing and developing the Nordic pay-TV market. As CEO of CTV he was responsible for rolling out some of Norway's first cable TV networks. More recently he has been heading the leading Nordic TV distributor Canal Digital, driving the transition from analogue TV to digital TV, the introduction of HDTV, the introduction of mobile TV and several new innovative products and advanced TV services.

Mr. Albech also has extensive experience from serving on the board of directors of numerous national and international companies.

"I have always appreciated new challenges, and I am therefore very pleased to be offered the opportunity to head Telenor Pakistan. Telenor Pakistan has proven itself as one of the Telenor Group's most successful operations. I bring with me a forward leaning, goal-oriented approach and a strong customer focus, and I am looking forward to start working with the Telenor Pakistan team of highly skilled employees", said Christian Albech.

Christian Albech will succeed Jon Eddy Abdullah, who has been appointed new CEO of the Telenor Group's Thai mobile operator, dtac. Jon has been CEO of Telenor Pakistan since 2008.

Mobilink Employees Spread Warmth and Smiles Among Flood Victims

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 08:27 AM PST

Mobilink Employees Spread Warmth and Smiles Among Flood Victims is a post from: ProPakistani

With temperatures plummeting to as low as zero degrees or below, winters this year have been harsh especially for flood affectees. Mobilink Foundation, the non-profit philanthropic arm of Pakistan's market leader in cellular services, Mobilink, in continuation of its efforts for the flood affected people, distributed winter clothes amongst women and children in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region.

The winter clothes distribution initiative by Mobilink Foundation will benefit more than 7,000 flood affected individuals across Pakistan. Around 2,000 warm clothes for women and 3,000 garments for children 12 years or younger will be distributed in the regions most affected by floods across Pakistan. Another 2,000 sweaters will also be distributed for infants between 1 to 2 years of age.

Fehmeeda Begum, a flood affectee from Nowshera after receiving the warm clothes said,

"The flood took away everything I had. I have been living in a tent with two of my children for last 4 months and I had no warm clothing to keep us warm in this cold weather. This is really helpful."

Mobilink Foundation Torchbearers distributed warm winter clothes in far flung areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region including Nowshera, Charsaddah and Swat as well as Muzaffargarh and Sukkur in Punjab and Sindh where severe cold spells are currently underway.

On a visit to Pir Sabaq, Nowshera, Mobilink volunteer employees also interacted with flood victims' families and their children. Here is a small video of their effort to spread smiles among the flood victims of Pir Sabaq.

According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department, in coming days a cold wave will continue in most parts of the country including KPK and Punjab due to a prolonged dry spell. Winters this year have been harsher in these areas with a difference of 4 to 6 ̊C as compared to corresponding temperatures last year.

In the absence of proper shelters and warm clothing, thousands of young and old flood victims stand vulnerable to the harsh winter conditions.

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Warid Congratulates PTA and Telecom Industry on Achieving 100m Subscriber Mark

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 04:27 AM PST

Warid Congratulates PTA and Telecom Industry on Achieving 100m Subscriber Mark is a post from: ProPakistani

Warid Telecom has congratulated Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) and the telecom Industry of Pakistan for achieving the milestone of one hundred million mobile subscribers.

More than 61% of population and over 92% of land area is now covered by cellular services. Being part of this great achievement and phenomenal success, Warid Telecom reinforces its commitment towards business excellence, said a statement issued by the company.

Being a consumer-centric company Warid ensures to serve its valuable customers with delighting customer care, exceptional network quality and innovative products and services.

While commenting on the achievement Mr. Muneer Farooqui, CEO Warid Telecom said:

"PTA has been very conducive and progressive since its inception. The mobile sector growth has been extraordinary and this sector has become a model for other countries across the world.

Telecom Industry has largely benefited from the initiatives taken by PTA such as the deregulation of international gateways and mobile number portability which helped grow teledensity. I am very optimistic about Telecom industry of Pakistan and wish PTA and all the industry stakeholders a great success in future".

With the end of 2010 Warid completes its five and half years of successful business operations in Pakistan. The company sets the highest standards of business excellence and secured over 17 million satisfied subscribers with a market share of about 17% and a network coverage in 6800 destinations, servicing 550 cities including Azad Kashmir and Northern Areas of Pakistan.

With the substantial market share, a strong brand repute, loyal subscriber base and the recognition as the most trusted cellular service, Warid Telecom continues to set excellence benchmarks in the telecom Industry of Pakistan.

How to Report to Google, if Someone is Copying Your Content?

Posted: 01 Feb 2011 12:18 AM PST

How to Report to Google, if Someone is Copying Your Content? is a post from: ProPakistani

copy paste How to Report to Google, if Someone is Copying Your Content? We have repeatedly discussed the fact that Pakistani webmasters have major attribution problem. They feel shy or otherwise disgraced to attribute a blogger for his/her legitimate work.

Resultantly, copying content has grown beyond the control in Pakistan. As online media is surging in terms of visibility, benefits and revenues, the magnitude of new websites appearing on Pakistan horizon has crossed the estimates.

Unfortunately, most of these websites are content lifters or aggregators. They keep reproducing your content without any credit, or link back. Print Media is not left behind in this race too.

From real life example, it is just like if a you have a shop and another shopkeeper steps-in and start looting your goods. He then re-sale those goods at his own price. Other way around copy/pasting business had high returns, without any investment/efforts involved.

Don't let the copiers lift your content! Deal with them very strictly. Lifters may start getting higher rank over your keywords, this gonna be a nightmare for you with dropping traffic and many other horrific consequences.

How to Report to Google about Copyright Violation:

Okay, now if you are one of such annoyed bloggers, whose content is being lifted openly and shamelessly, try following trick:

Step 1: Go to Google's Online DMCA complaint page here: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=dmca_complaint

Step 2: Fill the form with all required information.

Step 3: You are done. Wait for few days or couple of weeks at most and Google will surely take action against the website.

Possible Outcomes:

Google may discard your complaint, given you had not enough information or proof for copyright violation. So make your case strong by giving at least 6/7 copied links. Write all possible details
Google may ban adsense account of copier
Google may ban copier's website for search engine and so on.

Content Reproduction on News/Blog Aggregates with Consent:

News/Blog Aggregators are reproducing my content with my consent, should I be worried of keyword ranking for my website: well this is a debatable topic. Micheal Gray has written this useful post, in which he compares the pros and cons of aggregations. Summary of this article is as following:

Never let anyone republish 100% of your content
Try to get a link back to your main site and individual post in every article
Give permission to syndicate only a snippet of the post
Sometimes getting visibility is more important than getting credit
Sometimes getting a link from a higher powered site is more important than getting credit
Syndicated content can be powerful tool for ORM projects

So based on individual case and situation you can decide on news/blog aggregators. About content lifters, don't spare them.

Pakistan Floods Last Summer Could Have Been Predicted: Research

Posted: 31 Jan 2011 10:25 PM PST

Pakistan Floods Last Summer Could Have Been Predicted: Research is a post from: ProPakistani

Research Centers in western countries are saying that they knew in advance of the devastation, which the monsoon rains could bring last year in Pakistan. They are saying that they could enhance the accuracy and prediction time if worked well on the raw data available, said a research report.

Report said that it could predict of any such disaster by 10 days in advance.

Top Researcher said that Pakistan can get this system in just few million dollars.

Following are excerpts from the research:

Five days before intense monsoonal deluges unleashed vast floods across Pakistan last July, computer models at a European weather-forecasting center were giving clear indications that the heavy rains were imminent.

Now, a new scientific study that retrospectively examines the raw data from these computer models, has confirmed that, if the information had been processed, forecasters could have predicted extremely accurate rainfall totals 8-10 days beforehand.

The study also finds that the floods themselves could have been predicted if this data, which originated from the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasting (ECMWF), had been processed and fed into a hydrological model, which takes terrain into account.

The July floods killed thousands of people and tens of thousands of cattle, and left large parts of Pakistan in shambles. The waters displaced, or disrupted the lives of, an estimated 20 million people.

In a few weeks, Peter Webster, a professor of earth and atmospheric science at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and lead author of the new study, will attend an international meeting of developing nations in Bangkok to build support for flood forecasting in Pakistan.

He says a forecasting system in Pakistan would cost a few million dollars to set-up, but as little as $100,000 a year once operational. He hopes to convince the World Bank, currently providing $1 billion of flood-recovery financing to Pakistan, to fund the project.

For complete details visit this link