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 [...]

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 [...]

Telepresence is one of those mind-blowing technologies that you don’t have to explain to anyone, or convince people to buy. The moment they see it, they get it. And they want it. Cisco has been one of the leading firms innovating in this area. With decreases in communication costs and improvement in infrastructure, Telepresence promises [...]

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 [...]

Khooni Muqabla A few months ago I wrote a review about PTCL’s then brand-spanking-new EV-DO service. And if memory serves, I was pretty high on it. Since then, I’ve been travelling internationally much of the time and haven’t had an opportunity to use it much or to followup on the numerous comments and alternate perspectives that were presented [...]

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 [...]

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 and [...]

More than a year after Pakistan announced the world’s largest WiMax network, India is following suit with a somewhat modest 200,000 user deployment. Tata group will be investing $500M over 3 years to build out a WiMax infrastructure primarily for commercial use. In Pakistan, the magnitude of WiMax adoption has been far more significant. Wateen [...]

PTCL (Pakistan Telecommunications Corporation Ltd.) has an uphill battle ahead of it as the number of its landline subscribers continues to shrink by the day. PTCL’s wireless services, Ufone and VPTCL, have been doing well, but the company still needs to offer value added services and widen its wireless subscriber base if it is to [...]

Mobilink is currently deploying a very large, 8,500 km fiber optic network in Pakistan which will act as the backbone for its traffic by the end of 2008. An article that just appeared in The Daily Times details the project. Mobilink has already invested about $2.5BN in telecom infrastructure development in Pakistan and is poised [...]