TechLahore

What a difference 18 months make! Back in April 2009 I was singing praises for PTCL’s awesome new EVDO service (now called PTCL EVO). I wrote this piece and documented performance numbers to show how well the service was working. In case you don’t want to go through the original article, we were experiencing 2.28Mbps [...]

It’s been about 3 weeks since the last post. I’ve got emails from many regular readers wondering where the hell I’ve disappeared. Thanks for asking, it’s gratifying, but rest assured, I am very much here. I’ve been traveling for work a bit too frequently and while I haven’t had much time to write during the [...]

EV-DO has been a huge success in Pakistan. Since its debut in Pakistan early last year, multiple providers have entered the market and adoption has certainly gone through the roof. I first wrote about PTCL’s EV-DO services in Pakistan back in April 2009 and in the year that has gone by since then, the number [...]

Ah, it’s that time of year again! And how quickly it comes. It seems like yesterday that I wrote the predictions reproduced below, but look, three hundred and sixty five days have passed already. We must continue the tradition we started in 2007 and built upon in 2008… so here we go! I was right [...]

The communication infrastructure in Pakistan, both wired and wireless, is quite incredible. There’s one pet pieve I’d had for a while though, and that’s the lack of inexpensive, true mobile broadband in Lahore. WiMAX is available, but I haven’t come across a USB dongle from Wateen so far. Their rates are also a bit on [...]