PkReaders – Pakistani Readers Blog

The growth in cellular phone subscribers remained sluggish amidst aggressive marketing efforts of the operators, showing addition of only 1.561 million connections in the last three months.

THE Pakistan Telecom Company Limited has set up special bill collection counters at various One Stop Shops in Lahore to facilitate the submission of bills and avoid long queues.

Telenor offers 50% discount on all calls made to East Asia. This new offering is in addition to the two Step Charging Campaigns launched for Middle-east destinations in August & October 2009. Now all Telenor subscribers can enjoy 50% discount on all CALLS (after 5 mins) & SMS to any number in Malaysia, India, Bangladesh, [...]

ASK Telenor is a SMS based service that gives you the answer to your query in approximately 15 minutes. You can ask questions via SMS and get reply in mentioned time. Service costs Rs. 9(plus tax) per SMS.

The State Bank of Pakistan and the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority have agreed to introduce a unified regulatory framework for enhancing mobile banking in the country. It has been decided to set up a ‘Joint Regulatory Committee,’ according to a ‘Joint Statement’ released after a meeting held at SBP, Karachi between State Bank of Pakistan Governor [...]

Warid Telecom (Pvt.) Ltd. achieves yet another milestone by signing MoU with Punjab University, the largest University of Pakistan. Signing ceremony took place on November 18th 2009 at New Campus Punjab University Lahore. IThis special offer aims at providing cellular and blackberry services to not only officials and employees but to the students of Punjab [...]

Everyone is talking about Mobile Banking as world has really become “mobile”. This time Ufone comes with Upayments claiming to be the first step in facilitating ufone customers to do transactions via mobile.

Advertisement is the key factor in deciding the level of success one product gains in market, here in modern world, where we see a lot of means of advertisement, one of the common method came to scene was a kind of mobile advertisement. Painted buses describing specific product. Here Zong reaches UET Lahore’s route buses [...]

This is just to notify the concerned department of effected companies and institutes regarding the missus of their official domain name by linking it to some porn website. Someone, the owner of pk.com is misusing the official domain names of many Universities and companies of Pakistan, who are having .pk domains. A huge list of [...]

Internet service providers (ISPs) in Islamabad have registered complaints with the ministry of information technology against what they called ‘unfair’ market practices and ‘unreasonable’ policies. ‘Blocking voice packages on internet indiscriminately’ topped their list of worries.

Mobilink claimed that  use of its  services increased as its Average Revenue per User (ARPU) witnessed growth of nine percent in third quarter of the current fiscal year 2009 compared with the corresponding period of last year.

We had seen the news over internet on 13th November that Telenor is going to buy 63% shares in Warid and the news breaker were ProPakistani, A famous telecom blog. But resources told that Spokesman of both the company have denied this deal and marked this as a rumor spread over just to cause bad [...]

Pakistan Interior Minister’s website just got hacked by Pakistani Hackers, named as Cyber-Spy and once again the group was PakBugs. Don’t know interior ministry is still aware of it or not but the site is still up with hacked page. We were able to get a screenshot of edited page.

Fighting the war of  High Definition (HD), YouTube just announced that it will be bumping the maximum quality of its high definition videos to 1080p, up from the previous 720p. With the bump to 1080p, YouTube says it will upgrade videos previously originally sent in 1080p that were automatically downconverted to 720p.  For those who [...]

Intel is launching the Reader, a mobile device the size of a paperback book that converts printed text to digital text and then reads it aloud to the user. It combines a 5 megapixel camera with an Intel Atom processor, allowing users to point, shoot and listen to printed text. Storage is through a 4GB [...]