Tweet While this comes as no surprise, it is good to be reminded! The Prime Minister, while speaking to a delegation of the GSM Association explained that Pakistan has achieved a teledensity of 58%, which is the highest in South Asia. The infrastructure investments Pakistan has made in the telecom space, fiber, cellular and wireless [...]
Tweet A great article in the Business Recorder discloses plans to establish a sophisticated network in rural areas, delivering agricultural decision support systems, data mining and extraction using clustering techniques and other useful – and complex – functionality. Much of the infrastructure that powers these Agri AI systems is developed in Pakistan, particularly the environmental [...]
Tweet A landscape article published recently by the Voice of America talks about the effects of increased outsourcing and offshoring on countries like Pakistan. Part of their research was conducted in Karachi and some quotes from call center employees based there have been included in the piece. The bottom line is that the rapid growth [...]
Tweet Warid Telecom’s cell phone service has been quite a success story. They’ve grown their subscriber base rapidly and are well poised to deliver other services to their customer base. A couple of the big infrastructure efforts they’ve been working on have been through their parent company, Wateen. They’re planning to build their own high-bandwidth Fiber network throughout the [...]
Tweet Some may find this funny, but I felt sick to my stomach watching this clip. Ballmer was in Hungary talking to an audience that seems to be students and professors at a University, when this crazed idiot gets up shouting in an un-understandable accent (allegedly the language he was speaking was english), and asks [...]
Tweet All the major newspapers are carrying this story, but we’ll quote The News here. There has been an increase of about 20% in the foreign exchange inflows to Pakistan during July-April 2007-08 as compared to the same 10 month period during Financial Year 2006-07. These inflows include remittances by Pakistanis working abroad. The biggest [...]
Tweet In one of their latest, “More bars in more places ad”, AT&T shows a basketball fan shooting hoops at an arcade. The fan’s alter-ego – his phone – appears and says, “Chuck can’t answer right now because Chuck’s an idiot. He doesn’t have AT&T.” This is completely uncalled-for and inappropriate. We’ve gone from subtle enticements, [...]
Tweet We covered Systems Ltd. in the past and also focused a little on the group’s diversified activities across services, animation and product development. The recent Systems Ltd. board meeting was a welcome surprise to shareholders. The company announced 24% YoY revenue growth, a 60% bonus and 20% cash dividend. For those unfamiliar with Pakistani [...]
Tweet The PSEB is leading another business delegation abroad, and this time the destination is Canada. That’s right, the land of the red maple leaf. Hey, we’re fine with it as long as all the contracts get negotiated in Canadian dollars! After decades in the shadow of its more valuable southern cousin, the CD is winning [...]
Tweet Today, ClearCube, the PC Blade and Virtualization pioneer that has been a FiveRivers Technologies partner over the last many years, announced that it was spinning off a software company called VDIworks. Interestingly, this company will use talent in Pakistan, presumably also under the auspices of the FiveRivers relationship. The story that references the new relationship is [...]
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