Mobilink is currently the largest mobile phone network in Pakistan and they are offering a number of good devices too. They recently announced Nexus S in Pakistan and now they are planning to bring BlackBerry Playbook to Pakistan. The tablet is just launched in USA and Canada, and now Mobilink Pakistan is looking to grab it. The news came from Mobilink Twitter account, where they are saying that Mobilink Indigo exclusively launches Playbook in Pakistan. No words on the release date but I think it will be out next month. About the price, the tablet is available for Rs. 62,000.
If you are a Mobilink Indigo customer, then you can pre-order the tablet from nearby sale and service centers or you can contact your sale account manager if you are a club Indigo member. In case you don’t know about the specs of the tablet, then have a look:
-7" LCD, 1024 x 600, WSVGA, capacitive touch screen with full multi-touch and gesture support
-BlackBerry Tablet OS with support for symmetric multiprocessing
-1 GHz dual-core processor
-1 GB RAM
-Memory: 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions to be available
-5300mAh battery
-Dual HD cameras (3 MP front facing, 5 MP rear facing), supports 1080p HD video recording
-Video playback: 1080p HD Video, H.264, MPEG, DivX, WMV
-Audio playback: MP3, AAC, WMA
-HDMI video output
-Wi-Fi – 802.11 a/b/g/n
-Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
-Connectors: microHDMI, microUSB, charging contacts
-Open, flexible application platform with support for WebKit/HTML-5, Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Mobile AIR, Adobe Reader, POSIX, OpenGL, Java
-Ultra thin and portable:
-Measures 5.1″x7.6″x0.4″ (130mm x 193mm x 10mm)
-Weighs less than a pound (approximately 0.9 lb or 400g)
-Additional features and specifications of the BlackBerry PlayBook will be shared on or before the date this product is launched in retail outlets.
So who’s getting the tablet in Pakistan, anyone? or you are happy with your Motorola XOOM or iPad2?
Telenor Pakistan, presumed to be o of the most sought after employer and so claimed by the company, has fired its whole Network Security and Maintenance Department, insiders said.
The decision of the management was sudden and without any prior notification, sources said adding that it appears that Telenor did not want its other employees to feel insecure about their jobs – who, as a matter of fact, should feel insecure – that’s why no internal memo was circulated.
When we asked Telenor the details about the incident, Aamir Izhar, a company spokesperson confirmed that company recently outsourced its network maintenance and security contract to a vendor.
“As part of the contract Telenor Pakistan’s network security team has been absorbed by the vendor to ensure the existing high standards of network security for Telenor Pakistan infrastructure”, added Mr. Izhar. This apparently means that whole Network Security and Maintenance Department was given away to Huawei, and employees will have to work under new employer and of course with new contracts, terms and maybe the pay scales.
This has happened amid the mist of recent vendor change. Telenor Pakistan’s contract with Nokia Siemens Networks ended this month and now its Huawei that will be looking after Telenor’s Network Maintenance and Security across the country.
Some of the terminated employees, including Babar Ghayoor Khan, Network Security manager, is not joining Huawei as a protest against sudden termination, said a report.
Even after repeated attempts, we could not establish a direct communication with Babar Ghayoor to know his viewpoint. This is not only unprofessional and unethical on Telenor’s part, but also bears a testimony to the unstable and uncertain culture perpetuating in the private sector too. One can concatenate this to the earlier incidents of the strike by PTCL’s employees, the outburst of KESC’s employees and later the bout of PIA’s workers. It is indeed a sad moment.
The number of migrated subscribers from one operator’ network to another has witnessed a substantial increase in the last year with more than a 100 percent growth, showing in a year to reach 10.642 million benchmark by March 2011 end.
Pakistan Telecommu-nication Authority (PTA) statistics showed an increased of 7.2 million subscribers who switched over their network from other with the facility of Mobile Number Portability (MNP). The number of subscribers migrated from one cellular companies’ network from other has been reported to reach 3.44 million in March 2010.
MNP is a system that facilitates mobile phone users to switch over their mobile phone network without changing personal number and code. The cellular phone users carried out change of network because of service quality, affordability of tariffs, choice of bundle packages and value-added services offered by different service provider.
The average number of subscribers, who shifted from old to new network have been recorded at 600,000 in the last 12 months period that showed a tremendous success of the system and its usage.
MNP is an important mechanism to enhance fair competition among different Cellular Mobile Operators (CMO), which improves quality of service offered by them.
Pakistan is the first country in South Asia to implement the Mobile Number Portability (MNP) in March 2007 within a record time period of two years.
In Pakistan, MNP is regulated under provisions of “Number Portability Regulations” and “Porting Process Guidelines”. Normal porting time for both Pre-Paid and Post-Paid subscribers is 4-days after the subscriber settles his contractual obligations with concerned donor operator.
Pakistan Mobile Number Portability Database (Guarantee) Limited (PMD) was established by the six cellular mobile operators to act as a centralised clearinghouse for MNP.
“As it is becoming difficult to acquire new customers in the highly saturated market, cellular phone operators are engaged in intense wrestling of gaining each other’s subscribers on their networks by MNP,”.
The cellular phone operators are left with no option but to attract each other’s customers in the deeply saturated market of the country. Therefore, they are aggressively working to promote portability service through attractive packages to customers.
“Operators with comparatively small subscribers’ base are more actively engaged in offering attract packages to pluck the subscribers of each other’s network,”.
Mobile phone operators’ full-fledge advertisements and marketing campaigns have become fruitful for them for broadening of subscribers’ base. Also, the operators are now more cautious for improving their services and offering new packages in order to retain their subscribers.
The subscribers can migrate from their existing network to another with the same code and number more than one time with a gap of three months. The migration is completed within a couple of days by the operator against minimal charges.
By the end of December 2010, there were more than 102 million subscribers of the mobile phone operators. Mobilink is the market leader with highest number of subscribers at 31.7 million followed by Telenor with 24.69 million subscribers. Ufone and Warid’s users’ bases reached 20.27 million and 17.51 million respectively. While Zong subscribers are said to have touched 8.5 million mark.
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