11/23/12 ~ Mera Pak Watan

Mobile Service to Remain Suspended for Two Days for Over 70% Pakistanis [Updated with List]: ProPakistani

Mobile Service to Remain Suspended for Two Days for Over 70% Pakistanis [Updated with List]
Cellular Services in Karachi, Quetta and Part of Islamabad to Remain Suspended Today
Microsoft Inaugurates MIC in Lahore
Telcos Challenge Ban on Night Packages in High Court
Head of Financial Services at Zong Resigns
Warid Announces Double Number SIM
Glow Presents Augmented Reality at LUMS Thriller Night
PTCL Holds Diabetes Prevention and Awareness Seminar

Mobile Service to Remain Suspended for Two Days for Over 70% Pakistanis [Updated with List]

Posted: 23 Nov 2012 07:24 AM PST

On directions of Interior Ministry, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has just issued a directive to all cellular companies for closure of cellular and wireless services in as many as 49 cities across Pakistan, in addition to suspension of cellular services in whole of Baluchistan province. Directive, a copy of which is available with ProPakistani, details that [...]

Cellular Services in Karachi, Quetta and Part of Islamabad to Remain Suspended Today

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 11:28 PM PST

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has just issued a directive, asking cellular operators to suspend mobile phone service in Karachi, Quetta and G9 (Islamabad), tells us sources in cellular companies. Suspension details are as following: Karachi: 1 PM to 12 AM Quetta 1 PM to 12 AM G9 – Islamabad: 1 PM to 7 PM A source, [...]

Microsoft Inaugurates MIC in Lahore

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 11:20 PM PST

Microsoft Pakistan has unveiled Microsoft Innovation Centre at Arfa Software Technology Park in Islamabad. Microsoft said that establishment of MIC Lahore was collaborated with Government of Punjab. Microsoft Innovation Centres are state-of-the-art technology facilities built to foster innovative research, technological development and provide software solutions to a plethora of government, academic and industrial stakeholders. Globally, [...]

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Telcos Challenge Ban on Night Packages in High Court

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 10:09 PM PST

The cellular phone operators have challenged the order of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to stop all night call package in the Islamabad High Court (IHC), reported Daily Times. Paper says that all operators jointly submitted a writ petition in Islamabad High Court, saying that there is no telecom law that regulate content on telephony services. They [...]

Head of Financial Services at Zong Resigns

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 09:57 PM PST

Head of Mobile Financial Services at Zong, Mr. Ali Raza Shah, has resigned just ahead of commercial launch of branchless banking that the company is planning in first week of December, we have confirmed with sources. When asked the spokesperson of Zong, he denied any such development, however, ProPakistani got multiple confirmations on the information. [...]

Warid Announces Double Number SIM

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 09:55 PM PST

Warid has announced the availability of this new service called "Double Number SIM". As the name suggests, the service will allow Warid customers to own and operate two separate Warid numbers on a single SIM. This service can be availed by all prepaid Warid customers, who can get two numbers on one SIM without carrying [...]

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Glow Presents Augmented Reality at LUMS Thriller Night

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 09:31 PM PST

Glow by Warid recently presented the cutting-edge concept of Augmented Reality in the form of a never-seen-before brand engagement activity at the LUMS Thriller Night 2012. Augmented Reality is a concept involving choreographed imagery in a video stream where a person interacts with the objects on screen, giving the perception of being part of that [...]

PTCL Holds Diabetes Prevention and Awareness Seminar

Posted: 22 Nov 2012 08:18 PM PST

In connection with World Diabetes Day 2012, observed every year on 14 November, Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) held an awareness seminar on 'Prevention of Diabetes' at S A Siddiqui auditorium in the PTCL Head Quarters premises. Dr. Osama Ishtiaq, Consultant Endocrinologist/Dialectologist, Shifa International Hospital, Islamabad, was specially invited by PTCL Medical Services to deliver [...]