Mobilink’s Coverage AD - Uncensored

Posted by Aamir Attaa
July 4, 2008Print Print Email Email

You guys must had seen Mobilink’s Latest Coverage AD…good, but i have got something very interesting to share…check out this video : - )

Advertising, Disputes, Featured, Mobilink, cellular
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Mobilink Coverage Reaches 75533000 cities, even in Hell

Posted by Aamir Attaa
July 4, 2008Print Print Email Email

WccfTech got a very interesitng thing to discuss. Now there is a segment on Mobilink’s official wevsite, that serves regarding the information about Mobilink’s coverage in Pakistan or abroad.

There is a box where you are asked to put the city name and afterwords Mobilink’s intelligent web server matches the city name with the available cities in its database. But i am afraid Mobilink Sab ko Mamoo Bana raha hay …! It returns postive results for every query you enter.

See below, it says that Mobilink Coverage is available in Hell

Shame for us, that the largest cellular company of Pakistan is practicing such a non-sense

This element has forced me to re-think about other figures these cellular companies make public.

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MoITT Seeking Feedback from Private Sector for Revamping IT Policy

Posted by Aamir Attaa
July 3, 2008Print Print Email Email

Few days back, Mr. Adnan Saeed, Project Manager, MoITT sent an email to a public forum, in which he put forward a message that read like below

Government of Pakistan has initiated a broad based consultative process to formulate National IT Policy for the next five years. In order to make a realistic and practical policy the Government intends to involve all the stakeholders in this consultative process.

Kindly send your comments to asaeed@moitt.gov.pk latest by 31st of July 2008. You can post your comments as well on virtual group at http://www.nidu.gov.pk/forum

Adnan Saeed
Project Manager (NIDU), MoITT
Ph: 9209269
asaeed@moitt.gov.pk

For Information

Syed Muhammad Anwer
Project Director
National IT Development & Promotion Unit(NIDU)
Director Legal, MoITT
Ph: 051-9218967, Fax: 051-9201012
Email: smanwer@moitt.gov.pk

So now you are not in any position to complain that the Ministry of IT and Telecom hasn’t asked the opinion of private sector while revamping IT policy. They did their job; now Gurus are requested to come forward with your feedback and let’s dictate the fate of Pakistan’s IT industry for at-least coming five years.

To read out current IT policy, please point your browsers to this document (National-IT-Policy-2000) Right Click and Select “Save Target As” - File Size: 1.05 MB

Call Centers, IT industry, investments, taxes on businesses, role of PTCL and broadband in the country are few of many elements which should be addresses in new IT Policy

Read it out, and have your say. I will also come up with another post in few days with suggestions from the people I know.

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Cellular Companies, Please Please…show some Mercy; Don’t Loot Innocent Pakistanis

Posted by Aamir Attaa
July 3, 2008Print Print Email Email

Mobilink, last month, kicked off the war with Jazz one, Telenor responded with A One; however both were defeated by Ufone’s Uwon. And now Zong feeling the heat and joining the club with 8 Anay per Call offer.

Two things are seen common amongst all cellular companies; they are attacking each other…and at the same time deceiving their customers through un-clear advertising campaigns and claiming their packages as best one.

Let’s look at the print ad and try to solve the equation, regarding what actually the pricing would be for this package….

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I am feeling pity on our country and our nation who are misguided every other day, and none of us can take these looters to court.

I just called this “Network for Consumer Protection”, and asked them if there is any good way to bug these cellular companies for ambiguous un-ethical advertisements, but the lady there told that there is no advertising law in Pakistan. She confirmed that there are some code of conduct saved by PEMRA or PTV but that’s scattered. I was shocked to learn that we have no code of conduct for advertising for print media; that’s due to the interest of APNS, that they are more of concerned with the money they are getting from advertisers.

I was told that there is a Consumer Protection Court in Rawalpindi, but at the same time, that court is just for the sake of formalities. It does nothing…!

See below what is being followed in US

Unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, are hereby declared unlawful - Section 12 of the act makes it unlawful to disseminate any false advertisement for “foods, drugs, devices, services, or cosmetics.” - Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. § 45(a).

I remember an American parents sued a Washing Machine Manufacturer for not exclusively mentioning that their washing machines are dangerous for children under 7. Their 3 years old kid was killed when he jumped into machine tub. And interestingly, the couple had won the law suite.

But tell me where should i go to ask for justice in Pakistan?

I am sorry if I am hurting any one, but Pakistan is a jungle not a country, where any one can come and loot you! Bullshit

Advertising, Cellular Packages, Disputes, Featured, Uncategorized, Warid, cellular, economy, internet, zong
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Pakistan’s First AD Network Launched

Posted by Aamir Attaa
July 3, 2008Print Print Email Email

If you are running a blog or a website that caters to Pakistani audience, like mine, then you must be missing lots of potential revenues despite you are using ADSENSE, AdBright, eTology or any of other available ad networks.

The main reason for very low CTR (Click Through Rate, the rate at which ads are being clicked) is because ads being displayed by AdSense or other ad networks are of no interest to our local visitors. Let’s look into this snapshot (from ProPakistani.com) that displayed 4 ads and I see all of them are of no use for a visitor from Lahore; who is actually more of interested in products and services offered in Pakistan.

I personally had been badly missing a localized ad network, which could bring in local publishers and advertisers. There is no doubt that, in Pakistan, online advertising is not that popular, but the potential is there. As the trends are changing we can expect huge online media buying in coming days, specifically from large multi nationals and eventually the local service providers.

Led by Mr. Aamir Sarfraz, Bramerz (Pvt) Ltd launched this Pakistan’s first ad serving network, named as clickClick, with an aim to bridge the gap between the local advertisers and web publishers;

Process for signing up and other procedures seem quite similar to other ad networks, however the edge that clickClick can get you local advertisers is going to make some difference for publishers and website owners in Pakistan. They have taken aboard few publishers and advertisers already; however my application is still pending. Hope they are going to process it soon.

“In addition to our own tweaks that make our solution better than anything out there, we’re promoting local content. Local advertisers and local publishers. After all, it’s all about who and how you network. That’s the kind of support we’re extending to the local industries” read a PR from Bramerz.

As I am not signed up with them yet, so no words about CPC or CPM rates, but my expectations are high.

For more details for publishers click here
For details regarding advertisers click here
Signup for clickClick account here

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Huawei to Deploy Mobilink’s WiMAX in 6 Cities

Posted by Aamir Attaa
July 2, 2008Print Print Email Email

Chinese Company Huawei says that it has been selected by Mobilink, Pakistan’s largest GSM operator, to deploy a commercial WiMAX 16e network. Huawei will cover central Pakistan and hot spots in the country’s six major cities, including Islamabad, Lahore, Karachi, Sialkot, Faisalabad and Rawalpindi.

Under the terms of the contract, Huawei will provide Mobilink with a complete WiMAX solution including distributed base stations, an access service network-Gateway and a network management system.

No financial or rollout details were provided.

It merits Mentioning here that Mobilink is already in contract with Motorola and Alcatel-Lucent for its WiMAX network in Pakistan

[Via Cellular News]

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Mobilink Launches WiMAX in Pakistan

Posted by Aamir Attaa
July 2, 2008Print Print Email Email

Mobilink, second WiMAX service provider of Pakistan, has finally hit the WiMAX surface by introducing its services in Karachi in its first phase of countrywide rollout plan.

Uzair Ahmed broke the story on TGP backed with two official documents that reveal Mobilink’s WiMAX services, pricing and few other details. Named as Mobilink Infinity, WiMAX services would be offered in Karachi only, as a soft launch, until they are successfully tested and taken to other regions of Pakistan as well.

Their official webpage is not displaying anything yet. Also the news is missing in main stream electronic and print media. But there are couple of evidenced on fellow blogs, that confirm the existence of Mobilink Infinity.

Let’s look into tariff details before going into further details…!

Well prices look stunning, they are far better than any other broadband service provider in Pakistan. Mobilink Infinity has broken the PKR 2,000 barrier for 1 Mbps link (unmetered) that was being offered by LinkDotNet, PTCL and other ISPs, and taken it down to just PKR 1,199; not only this, the package comes with VoIP privileges, and that too with Free calls from WiMax (Infinity) to WiMax (Infinity) and on any Mobilink GSM Subscribers (Defiantly a limited time offer), but this a treat.

But hold on, there is a bad news! With Mobilink Infinity you will have to pay almost PKR 16,000 for installation equipment (CPE) and security. However, for promotional period, this first time payment is lessened to PKR 8,000. Home users may not like to pay this huge amount. Other wise things seemed so well.

Considering the 1 Mpbs pricing, they could have taken 512 Kbps package down to PKR 500 to meet most in-expensive internet available in the world. But PKR 999 is not bad too!

Apart from pricing, services, response time, customer support, reliability and network uptime are other features that would come under consideration in the long run. We know that WiMAX is an evolving technology; hence, like any voice/data network, we should expect issues earlier on, but once streamlined, Mobilink Infinity is going to give tough time to not only Wateen but other broadband service providers too.

Wateen Telecom must be eying the situation very closely, and may revise their packages immediately. Currently they are offering capped packaged with limited download/upload capacity.

I see lot of potential in WiMAX market in Pakistan, specifically when we see than Wateen has acquired 25,000 customers in a short span of time, we will have to see in coming months, what Mobilink Infinity is going to do, which is apparently lot better than of Wateen in terms of monthly rental and coverage.

Mobilink will have to invest some money by subsidizing the WiMAX equipment (which is going to cost a user PKR 16,000), if they really want to get some good subscriber base.

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UWon Package Offering Rs. 1 Per Minute, Every Minute

Posted by Aamir Attaa
July 1, 2008Print Print Email Email

After almost a month, Ufone has geared up to beat Mobilink’s Jazz One and Telenor’s A One Package while offering a flat rate of Rs. 1 Per minute on all on-net calls and Rs. 1.60 on off net calls.

Ufone’s official webpage reads like this

Whether it’s your first minute or last, with Ufone Uwon package talk for only Rs.1.00/minute to any Ufone number and only Rs.1.60/minute to any other number. Activate Ufone Uwon package today and take advantage of the lowest per minute call rates to all networks in Pakistan.

How to Convert to Uwon Package

To activate the package dial 444 from your Ufone, and follow the automated voice to subscribe to this package.

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