Punjab University’s Website Gets Hacked: ProPakistani

Punjab University’s Website Gets Hacked
Pay for Three Months and Get Free EVO Nitro USB
Ufone CEO Nominated for CEO of the Year Award
PTA Shortlists 3.5 Million SIMs to be Blocked, if not Verified
PTCL to Implement IP MPLS Solution for Bank of Punjab
PTA Notifies Regulations for GPRS/EDGE Services
Deductions on Mobile Recharges by Retailors Should be Stopped

Posted: 18 May 2011 07:23 PM PDT

Punjab University’s Website Gets Hacked is a post from: ProPakistani

A group of students named "The Student Alliance" has defaced Punjab University's official website, with an aim to stop the devolution of HEC.

Punjab University web.s hacked thumb Punjab Universitys Website Gets Hacked

Hackers have posted a bold-styled message on hacked pages to "Save HEC".

It further reads:

Save HEC to save national integrity.

The defacement is done for a good cause. That is to spread awareness; take some time out to read/ understand the consequences of the dissolution.

- THE STUDENT ALLIANCE

We have determined that hackers have not damaged any data available on the website, however, it is certain that every index file is replaced with this defaced index file, which means that server wide URLs are defaced.

It merits mentioning here that Punjab University's website is one of the most visited academia website in the country.

Update:

Website is back online now!

Pay for Three Months and Get Free EVO Nitro USB

Posted: 18 May 2011 07:05 PM PDT

Pay for Three Months and Get Free EVO Nitro USB is a post from: ProPakistani

Now you can have PTCL EVO Nitro for free by paying an upfront for three months, all those customers who are planning to get an EVO Nitro, this is the right time for you.

This offer waives the EVO Nitro USB charges which are to paid at the time of activation. So pay for three months a get a discount of Rs. 4000, the initial upfront for USB device.

Since EVO Nitro monthly charges are Rs. 3000, so pay an amount of Rs. 9000 to get this EVO Nitro device for free.

Terms and Conditions:

Promotion is applicable for all new Nitro sales Only.
Customer will have to pay 3 months line rent (Rs.9000) in advance for being eligible to avail the offer.
For Advance billing package, customer will have to make advance payment of Rs.9000 in advance at the time of availing this offer at any PTCL OSS.
For PSTN billing package, customer will have to pay 3months advance line rent at the time of purchase (unlike normal PSTN packages).
For PSTN billing package, the customer shall not be billed EVO charges in his PSTN bill for the first 3 months; billing shall start from the fourth month.
Promotion is valid for sales made through PTCL In-house sales channels only.
Promotion is not valid for sales made through franchises and other in-direct sales channels.
Promotion is valid for Nitro Commercial Promo packages only.
Promotion is not valid for Employee & other discounted packages.
Promotion is not valid for EVO & Wi-Fi Cloud customers.

Ufone CEO Nominated for CEO of the Year Award

Posted: 18 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT

Ufone CEO Nominated for CEO of the Year Award is a post from: ProPakistani

Mr. Abdul Aziz, President and CEO of Ufone has once again made it to the top by getting nominated for the "CEO of the Year Award 2011" by Asia Communication Awards (ACA) committee.

Mr. Aziz's nomination is truly a cause for national pride as once again he is the only Pakistani who has been nominated to gain recognition at this event.

Following is the complete list of nominations for "CEO of the Year award 2011"

Abdul Aziz – Ufone
Li Yue – China Mobile
Stephen Ho – CITIC Telecom CPC (formerly known as CPCNet Hong Kong Limited)
Paul Blanche-Horgan – Ezecom
Khalid Al Kaf – Mobily
Akira Arima – NTT
William (Bill) Barney – PACNET
Ravi Bhatia – Primus Telecom
Chua Sock Koong – SingTel
Greg Young – SLT (Sri Lanka Telecom)
Neil Montefiore – StarHub
Vinod Kumar – Tata Communications
Tarek Robbiati – Telstra International

Vote for Mr. Abdul Aziz:

You can play your role for brining the award to Pakistan by voting for Mr. Abdul Aziz on this page: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/ACA-CEO-2011

PTA Shortlists 3.5 Million SIMs to be Blocked, if not Verified

Posted: 18 May 2011 03:42 AM PDT

PTA Shortlists 3.5 Million SIMs to be Blocked, if not Verified is a post from: ProPakistani

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority today announced that it shortlisted a total of 3.5 million SIMs without mentioning the numbers for each operator, that are said to be un-verified.

In other means, PTA has identified only 3.5 million SIMs as un-verified, out of total 105 million mobile connections. Moreover, these SIM's won't get permanently blocked, instead they can call 789 to verify their data and get the SIM working again.

Phased Blocking of SIMs:

PTA said that considering the limited resources available at mobile companies' end, the process of blocking shall be completed in four weeks where same number of mobile connections i.e. 0.875 million shall be blocked on weekly basis thus bringing total no of SIMs to 3.5 million.

The mobile connections that failed to approach 789, for re-verification/confirmation of their data, shall be completely blocked at the end of each week.

How to unblock a Blocked SIM?

PTA has said that during the blocking process a particular SIM/connection shall only be allowed to call 789 for re-verification of user's antecedents. Through 789 system a customer has to approach Call Center of the concerned mobile company by dialing short code 789 and re-register & verify his antecedents through NADRA's database by answering mandatory secret questions i.e. mother's name and place of birth so as to activate his non-active SIM.

With a view to further facilitate the mobile users, individual SMS shall again be sent to all left over target mobile connections advising them to approach 789 so as to avoid completely blocking of their SIMs.

PTA said that a total of 13.28 million mobile connections approached and re-verified their antecedents through 668 database till 17^th May, 2011.

It is also important to mention here that for the best interest of consumers', PTA has made the service of 668 free of charge where consumer can know the count of SIMs of each mobile company registered against his CNIC by sending his CNIC number to 668 through SMS.

PTA said that the Chairman is personally monitoring the whole exercise.

PTCL to Implement IP MPLS Solution for Bank of Punjab

Posted: 18 May 2011 03:24 AM PDT

PTCL to Implement IP MPLS Solution for Bank of Punjab is a post from: ProPakistani

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) and Bank of Punjab (BoP) have inked an agreement to cater for their entire branches connectivity through state of art IP MPLS (Multi Protocol label Switching) service over physically and geographically redundant network. This will help the BoP for their multi application connectivity in secure, reliable and cost-effective manner.

This agreement will allow Bank of Punjab to carry out its online core banking transactions in a secure, faster and cost effective manner. The MPLS service provided to Bank of Punjab is fully flexible to meet the ever increasing demand of bandwidth due to multiple applications securing over the same network. MPLS can also provide the different Classes of Service (CoS) as per customer’s requirement such as voice, video and data traffic.

SEVP commercial; Naveed Saeed on the occasion stated

"PTCL has become the obvious choice for customers looking for quality services and with this trust building step of BOP, PTCL enhances its market share in corporate services to the next step and is keen to bring Bank of Punjab on board with PTCL for the products that have been introduced by PTCL keeping in view requirements of Financial Sector including Data Centre services. With the finalization of this contract, PTCL corporate services will keep on expanding its clientele and winning the trust of major corporate customers".

EVP Corporate Services & Product Development Niaz Malik stated

"This agreement with The Bank of Punjab is a radical milestone achieved by PTCL in expanding its horizons and works as an engine of economic growth for the country by not only exploring new ventures in the arena of information technology but also extending its network and services to newer areas.

Thus cater perfection in all fields of life as it is constantly improving and upgrading its services to ensure customer satisfaction and has the fastest growing network in the country".

PTA Notifies Regulations for GPRS/EDGE Services

Posted: 18 May 2011 02:45 AM PDT

PTA Notifies Regulations for GPRS/EDGE Services is a post from: ProPakistani

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued regulations for all cellular operators aimed at ensuring maximum subscribers satisfaction on the quality of GPRS and EDGE services.

The regulations shall be called "GPRS/EDGE Quality of Service Standards Regulations, 2010.

PTA has explained the criterion of the quality of service shall be changed time to time keeping in view the emergence of new technology, demand of customers and capacity of cellular operators.

All licensees providing GPRS and EDGE services shall adopt the performance standards termed mandatory requirement by the authority, which can modify, delete and add standards for rating on the basis of the extend of coverage deployment and review of new technologies, the regulations stated.

All operators shall carry out quality of service testing of GPRS/ EDGE in accordance with availability network and services; link, upload and download speeds, mobility and retain-ability.

The test and surveys shall be designed to meet the applicability, end-to-end testing, ease of measurement and similar treatment of rural and urban region in terms of service offers.

The PTA may depute its representative for supervising quality of services surveys and testing to be carried out by operators themselves.

The cellular operators shall maintain record of all data collected against each quality of service survey, testing and different factors, which will be submitted to the authority at certain intervals. All record must be safe for next three years by operators as necessary compliance.

The cellular operators must update their data in analytical form so it is always open for inspection and audit of the authority or representative of authority, the regulations added.

The regulations said that the authority may conduct inspections, survey, test or make surprise checks through its representative. It may also conduct performance audit of operators' quality of service from time tot time to ensure that users of telecommunication services get quality of services guaranteed by service providers.

PTA may decide to provide information of frequency testing, geographical routes and testing times to operators in advance on the basis of consumer complain record, coverage claim of the cellular operator and previous results.

The cellular operators shall extend full co-operation with all required assistance to inspecting officer of PTA in carrying out testing and surveys. The authority may engage, if required, a third party or a group of consultants to conduct a quality of service audit.

The inspecting officer shall prepare an inspection report of quality of service results, which clearly spell out shortfall observed during the testing process and submitted to the operators. The cellular operators shall take all remedial measures to remove the shortfalls identified in the report and submit a compliance report within 30 days by confirming that all shortfalls have been removed.

PTA will publish test or survey results and rating of the operators for information of general public.

Click the this link to view detailed copy of regulation. (PDF File – 285 KB)

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Deductions on Mobile Recharges by Retailors Should be Stopped

Posted: 17 May 2011 10:31 PM PDT

Deductions on Mobile Recharges by Retailors Should be Stopped is a post from: ProPakistani

images Deductions on Mobile Recharges by Retailors Should be Stopped Have you ever recharged your mobile account balance from retailer, If yes, then there are chances that you have have observed the fact that the recharged money in your mobile account is less than you actually paid the retailor. This happens specifically if your recharge value is less than Rs. 50 or in some cases less than Rs. 100.

Retailors charge this money (usually Rs. 1 or Rs. 2) as transaction fee for lesser recharges, in fact they boldly communicate this to customers through notices dispatched to their shop walls.

Now this deduction from retailors isn't allowed by cellular companies, as a matter of fact, cellular companies pay these retailors a fixed commission or margin (which is usually 3 to 3.5 percent) for all the balance transfer they make.

According to market sources, majority of retailors deduct this small money of Rs. 1 or Rs. 2 for small balance recharges. For instance if a customer asks the retailor to load Rs. 40 then retailer will recharge only Rs. 39, which is unauthorized by the cellular companies.

Cellular companies, being the responsible for their sales and distribution network should take necessary action and implement proper check on these retail transactions.

Not only this, few retailors, who enjoy monopoly in far flung areas of the country, force customers to recharge only higher value of money. They define a lower limit, which is usually far higher than the official lower limit defined by the cellular companies.

A ProPakistani reader, who wanted his name to remain unidentified, wrote to us:

Every where in Pakistan, retailers think that these deductions are their right, but fact is that telecom companies pay them well apart as their commissions.

astonishing matter lies at telecom operators' end because they have this thing in notice but companies don’t take any step to eradicate this menace.

I forwarded them suggestions on multiple instances in this aspect, but looks that my emails and requests end up on deaf ears.