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- These are All Frauds: Make Money Online, Earn Rs. 30,000, Get Verified Adsense Account, and More!
- PTCL Announces 8-15% Increase in Pensions
- Ufone Offers 100,000 SMS to 1 Number Per Month for Rs. 10
- Telecom Operators to Complete 100 % Migration Towards NGN by 2011-end
| These are All Frauds: Make Money Online, Earn Rs. 30,000, Get Verified Adsense Account, and More! Posted: 02 Feb 2011 01:42 PM PST
These are All Frauds: Make Money Online, Earn Rs. 30,000, Get Verified Adsense Account, and More! is a post from: ProPakistani As inflation in Pakistan climbs to sky high rates, more and more people are looking for alternatives to make money to make ends meet. Many of these people turn to the internet as a source of income and majority of them get caught up in a web of deception spun by scammers and con artists. In fact a study claims that the top cyber crimes in Pakistan are financial crimes. Why is it so attractive? Making money via internet is attractive for a number of reasons. The comfort of sitting at home and generating income is massively appealing. Add to it that the only investment is a computer and an internet connection and you've got yourself a potential goldmine. Scammers count on this desire to make a quick rupee, to achieve their goals. Everyday one gets hammered by an unending stream of emails trying to part you from your cash. But now that most people are aware of the risks of junk email, scammers are turning to more inventive ways to cheat people out of their money. Scamming has reached new heights these days with the saddest development being this trend spreading fast in Pakistan with our own people trying to cheat us out of our own money. Check following ads appearing in our main stream newspapers:
Images via PKReaders Minting Money in the name of Registration Fee! One example is the now defunct rozzgar.tk. This website claimed to be an advertising agency with connections to various companies in Pakistan. They tried to lure people into the concept of free cash, namely, by offering money to display ads on websites and blogs even if they received zero traffic. Too good to be true? Well, yeah. The catch was that they had a registration fee. They offered different packages, with the expensive ones offering more money to host ads on your blog. You might be rolling your eyes on how could one fall for such an obvious scam but estimates suggest that they managed to acquire around 4 million rupees in the space of one month, before shutting down. Thousands of people lost money and when the scam was reported, they just disappeared with all the money. Trapping in the name of Adsense: Undoubtedly, if you have interesting content to offer and you wish to generate some money from your efforts, Google Adsense is your best friend. It has been referred to as the online moneymaking machine. In a sense, it is just that. Blogs with high traffic are generating significant amounts of money through Adsense. But with it comes a generation of scammers hoping to exploit its popularity. And surprise surprise, this seems like a popular way to commit fraud amongst our fellow country men. Some rely on fake checks they claim they received from Google, and offer information on how others can do the same by visiting a specific site or signing up with a program which costs money or it could just be a link to earn the scammer in question some money. Take this for example: Scammers use various techniques to get your attention, few being:
Not only this, one can come across banners of people offering up to 30,000 Rs for working only a few hours a day using Adsense. Alarmingly, even our newspapers are starting to display these scam ads (given above). Most of these scams hit people who are new internet users or particularly the jobless. Get Verified Google Adsense Account in Rs 500: Another Fake! Keeping in light the amount of fraud committed by countries like India and Pakistan, Google has complicated the process of obtaining an Adsense account. It requires unique content, your own domain, and that your blog be older than 6 months to get an account. In fact, we did an article on how Adsense was being exploited as early as March 2009. Sadly, now that an Adsense account is not easy to obtain, exploiters are now offering "verified Adsense accounts" in a few hours for money. It's a scam. Don't fall for it. Ahsad Javed did a detailed post on Google Adsense Verified Account fraud here Implications: Google has strict security policies and when it uncovers the amount of corruption being done in Pakistan in its name, it may ban Adsense which would badly hit thousands of people in Pakistan, specially our bloggers. As I draw to closing this post, I'd just like to say that be smart forget about the notion of easy money. And don't fall prey to the vultures in wait in the cyber world, it only spurs them on and gives our country a bad name. Here are a few websites you can read to help you understand the nature of cyber crimes and how to stay clear of them. These sites also offer tips on recognizing scams.
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| PTCL Announces 8-15% Increase in Pensions Posted: 02 Feb 2011 01:11 PM PST
PTCL Announces 8-15% Increase in Pensions is a post from: ProPakistani
PTCL's nearly 110,000 retired employees will be getting their enhanced pensions from Feb 2011 along with the arrears of the past months as per decision of the company board of directors, they added. As many as 50,000 who got retired from the service before 1996 will receive 15 percent increment in their gross pensions whereas 8 percent increase in pension has been awarded to 30,000 ex-employees who were retired after 1996 including 30,000 staff members who availed Voluntary Separation Scheme (VSS) in 2008. Officials said the PTCL's board has made this announcement after a case that was filed against them in Islamabad High Court on the behalf of PTCL retired employees on December 25, 2010. However, pensioners are not happy with the decision of the company as the increment in the pension is not being made in accordance with the government's directions, which was announced by Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani in the budget speech on June 5 yesteryear. This is the first time in the history of PTCL that it did not follow the government's instruction and passed on the relief which was promised by the top leadership of the country. We have lodged our protest to the PTCL management several time but our voices were unheard. Therefore we have filed a case against PTCL management because it has not been given the increase in pensions, which is our right, convener Retired Employees Action Committee M H Aslam said. The increase in pensions will not be acceptable as this is not according to the announcement made by the democratic government, he added. There are four agendas on the basis a petition was filed in court:
This is our money that we contributed to the trust's funds when we are serving the PTCL, M H Aslam said and added the amount of funds have increased to Rs. 53 billion. PTCL retired employees are waiting for the verdict of court to be announced on Feb 7. Afterwards, we will decide our next strategy, they said. PTCL 's regular staff get 20% raise in salaries PTCL management has also announced 20 percent raise in the salaries of regular employees after seven months. The company had given 30 percent raise to their employees in September 2010 after several protests and strikes ahead of Eidul Fitre. Nearly 12,000 regular employees will be benefited from the decision of the PTCL management. Earlier, 50 percent increment in salaries was also announced by the government in the budget of the current fiscal year. Related posts:
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| Ufone Offers 100,000 SMS to 1 Number Per Month for Rs. 10 Posted: 01 Feb 2011 11:58 PM PST
Ufone Offers 100,000 SMS to 1 Number Per Month for Rs. 10 is a post from: ProPakistani
Above equation seems pretty appealing, however, variables are increasing with every new offer coming from cellular companies. With its current offer, Ufone is claiming that this is cheapest SMS rate in the world. Rightly so, however, this cheapest possible SMS could get the love juice from the whole world if it had come with a liberty of sending SMS from any Ufone number to anyone, on any network. If you want to avail this offer, and are switching your number to Uth, then be informed, that there are daily charges of Rs. 1 per day with Ufone Uth Package. Here are complete details on Ufone Uth Package. Here is what Ufone has to say about its claim:
And just for a clue, anyone can beat Ufone's this offer. Here are tips:
Never mind, Pakistani cellular users are now used to of such caps that come with mobile packages. Here are interesting Facts, you may want to consider:
Just for records, if you send back to back SMS for one whole month, you won’t be able to send more than 370,285 text messages in one month. Just to mention, this doesn’t include composing time or anything else, these stats are for back to back SMS. How to Activate: To activate this offer simply send your desired number to 604 Mechanism:
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| Telecom Operators to Complete 100 % Migration Towards NGN by 2011-end Posted: 01 Feb 2011 11:23 PM PST
Telecom Operators to Complete 100 % Migration Towards NGN by 2011-end is a post from: ProPakistani The major telecom operators will complete their Core Networks' migration towards the R4 architecture up to 100 percent by 2011-end as they have started their deployments aggressively as part of their plans to shift over to New Generation Network (NGN), a report published by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) stated. Pakistan Telecommunication Limited (PTCL), having the largest fixed line network, has approximately 10% of its network operating on C5 NGN architecture. The cellular phone operators including, Ufone, Telenor and Mobilink have 100%, 75% and 70% of their networks migrated to R4 architecture respectively. The overall migration will be completed, cent percent, by all operators with an approved plan for 100% by December 2011, the report said. The major operators of (Long Distance International) LDI's named Wateen, Worldcall and Telecard have whole of their LDI network on NGN architecture whereas Land-line networks are still on legacy networks. The operators and stakeholders do agree to the fact that Fiber at the access level of NGN is matchless in performance, but its high cost and maintenance expense due to physical breaks, high ROW (Right of Way) charges and above all, the user affordability concerns overshadow its performance advantages in Pakistan market, especially at the domestic level. In Pakistan NGN deployments started in 2005 but appreciable activity has been noticed during 2008 & 2009. The probable answer to "why not an aggressive activity in NGN migration observed, four to five years back is that there has been a substantial growth in GSM-telecom subscribers in Pakistan over the last few years. The operators have been relatively less aggressive about offering new services. And the current networks are still so much revenue generating that operators have shown their hesitation to move from legacy interconnects to IP-interconnects. Probably the launch of 3G will change this approach of the industry here. Opex-savings with advanced technology One of the major drivers of NGN migration is the cost saving, but it is very clear that the NGN-core saves the cost but the deployment of NGN access needs a lot of investment to be pooled in. According to an operator "NGN still needs to prove their ROI's (Return on Investment) and the total cost of ownership needs to be considered while evaluating such investments." The market research company Ovum has pointed out that it will take some time before the cost-reduction potential in NGN becomes noticeable due to more efficient network management. The procedure will take several years. The other core driver is that, the legacy TDM network equipment is reaching obsolesces and not fully covered by vendor's support and maintenance contracts. So the motivation for NGN migration is not necessarily just to advance the services and reduce the OPEX but rather to move the network to next stage and get rid of 20 years old TDM equipment. Almost all the operators would prefer opting for Buy-Back arrangement of the dismantled TDM equipment with respective vendors. Focusing on the current status of NGN networks in Pakistan, the migration status and future plans of the operators, experiences, difficulties and feedback about the migration to these networks; an exclusive report has been prepared by working group established by Pakistan Telecom Authority with all the major operators and stakeholders to help guide the industry momentum to an effective migration and to resolve any problems that may be faced during transition. In the past seven months, meetings of the Working Group, addressing the following agendas have been held.
Vendors including Nokia-Siemens, Huawei, ZTE also participated, addressing the QoS and Security reservations and consideration. All the stakeholders came-up with concerns and also provided their network status to help assist the authority for future policy. Implementation Challenges During Migration: Some of the challenging tasks identified in NGN networks have been related to:
Other major migration concerns for fixed-line operators have been identified as:
Tariff/Charging Principles in NGN: In NGN Networks, the principle of tariffs shall be dependent on the different flavors of services offered to the public and the bundle formats. Principles of charging will change due to flexibilities of applications bundling. The consumers will be able to enjoy both the flat rates or pay-as-you-go tariffs and the combination there-off. Other variants will be customer segmentation, timing of day and area of service etc. Similarly, End to End QoS guarantees may become difficult unless interconnects and SLAs are made between all service providers in chain as well as between originator and the end users. Standardization of definitions of class of services will be the issue. There will be no new scalable competition with NGN unless significant market power rules are adopted by the PTA. In its report, PTA discussed various other issues including threats, potential, cost reduction, tariff, and challenges deployment of NGN. You can download complete report by clicking this link (Format: PDF, Size: 915 KB) Related posts:
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Over hundred thousand pensioners of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) will finally receive increment of 8-15 percent in their pensions' after waiting seven months in limbo, told us official sources.
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