TechLahore

We don’t quite know yet who the telco is, but if it was THE largest (mobilink), they would have probably said so. That leaves Telenor, Ufone, Warid and Zong. Your guess is as good as mine. But more important than identifying the customer here is the fact that NetSol appears to be diversifying into the [...]

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 [...]

Driving around in Lahore the other day, I came across these large Warid banners at several places in the Cantt. area. As you can see from the image, Warid is investing quite a bit in advertising their newest service, wzone. wzone is a mobile destination you can visit using your cell phone which provides you [...]

Telenor Pakistan’s CEO, Tore Johnsen, has been replaced by his Malaysian compadre, Jon Eddy Abdullah. Tore has been in charge since the 2004 launch of Telenor in the country. He has done nothing less than a fabulous job in ensuring market share, delivering a variety of innovative services and creating a pretty compelling brand identity in just [...]

This is possibly the largest WiMax network currently operational, in the world. After much poking and prodding, it seems Wateen has listened to us and delivered the goods. While I don’t yet have a personal experience to report to our readers, suffice to say the Wateen website is proclaiming general availability. Moreover, this piece of [...]

I hope Telenor perishes! Why? Here’s why. I’ll start from the top. As I mentioned on this blog a while back, I was looking at Telenor’s TV service. Despite the cost, I bit the bullet and subscribed. Right after sending the SMS message to initiate the subscription, I received a prompt confirmation message. So far [...]

Many of you may be aware that Telenor recently launched an EDGE/GPRS TV service over their cell network in Pakistan. I haven’t used it myself, since I thought it was too expensive… but I digress. My least favourite IT reporter, Mr. Zamir Haider, reports that the Government of Pakistan has apparently warned Telenor that they [...]