Posted by: Aamir Attaa on October 7, 2008 at 1:59 PM
Mobile Phone Manufacturer, Sony Ericsson has discontinued its office in Pakistan and has decided to manage sales and distribution of its products in Pakistan from the company’s Middle East and Northern Africa regional hub office in Dubai (UAE).
A company statement that confirmed this information also said that Pakistan will continue to be an important market for Sony Ericsson and that, as part of its plan to align its operations and resources world-wide, Pakistani market will be managed from Dubai after local office was closed on September 30th, 2008.
There are many speculations about this decision that includes Sony and Ericsson internal relations, which actually lead Sony’s CEO Howard Stringer commenting that the two companies need to reform their cooperation otherwise the joint venture would fail.
This decision of closure of Pakistan’s office can be part of world over reorganization of the company that will reason many job cuts world over, including USA.
In a company statement issued lately from London, England, it admitted that “market conditions have changed very rapidly and action must be taken to ensure that it can remain competitive in the dynamic and fast-paced telecommunications industry.”
“Today the company confirms that it is beginning to implement a plan to align its operations and resources worldwide to meet an increasingly competitive business environment and to help restore its capability for profitable growth. The measures that are being taken by Sony Ericsson are aimed at becoming a faster, more agile and more cost efficient organization.”
According to Pakistani market resources, Sony Ericsson handsets were out of stock since the end of first quarter of 2008. ApnaTime recently reported that Sony Ericsson’s newly appointed distributor Teletec Mobile was not able to purchase stock on cash since its appointment. Analysis were made that this happened to avoid market risks. On other hands, local management failed in finding another distributor. However, now the chapter has been officially closed and Sony Ericsson will serve Pakistani Market from Dubai.
Posted by: Aamir Attaa on July 20, 2008 at 10:28 AM
Wow another offer to snatch as you see it. Okay if you have got your family, friends or business in US, Canada, Australia, China, France, United Kingdom etc (or in any other of 34 countries listed below) then this offer is service is going to rock…!
This Unlimited calling is not going to be an ordinary voice quality that we experience with majority of VoIP service providers; instead you have got a chance to make unlimited calls and experience the quality standards maintained by Skype.
Here is the offer…
Unlimited Calls to one out of 34 countries = 3.95 Euros = $ 6.2 = PKR. 440
Unlimited Calls to all 34 Countries = 8.95 Euros = $ 14 = PKR 994
Conditions:
These plans comes in monthly subscriptions
You need to pay via Credit Card or PayPal
Prices in Pakistan Rupee may vary depending on Currency Rates
List of 34 countries is given below
US and Canada comes under one code, hence if you select US then you will also be able to make unlimited calls to Canada as well.
Mobile calls are free to only selected countries (mentioned in following list)
As per fair usage policy you’ll get up to 10,000 calling minutes per month
Posted by: Aamir Attaa on July 12, 2008 at 9:04 PM
Don’t get shocked, this was just a rumor, and industry insiders have denied this news in any case. However, TheTechthurtle today morning claimed that UK based Vodafone and Orascom have closed a deal to sell 26% shares of Pakistan’s largest cellular company Mobilink to Vodafone. Blog, without citing any source, claims that both the companies were in talks for quite some time now, however, the deal was closed recently. No words were said regarding the value of deal; hence the total value of Mobilink is still unknown.
It was said that Vodafone had been seeking its chance to enter Pakistani cellular market to further strengthen its regional existence for last three years and at the same time Mobilink was eying any investor to share the investment injection.
TheTechthurtle writes that Vodafone has already setup their office in Islamabad since 2006 and living a life of anonymity.
Vodafone owns cellular operations in 20 countries globally. And the trend observed is that they enjoy sole ownership of companies. They have 52 percent as their least number of shares in any network in India. If the rumor is true then it can be depicted that Vodafone may have asked Mobilink for at least 50 percent shares. In another scenario, Waird has been enjoying 30 percent sleeping partner, Singtel. But Vodafone has got an attitude to rule independently, like we saw in India; they rebranded Hutch throughout India in a campagn called as World’s largest rebranding
Another rumor was spread in the same post, that Orascom’s Internet wing, Link Dot Net, was also in talks with another UK telco Orange to sell it partial shares. Blogger writes that Link Dot Net is in serious trouble due to their weak infrastructure and poor planning.
Posted by: Aamir Attaa on July 12, 2008 at 11:21 AM
Enriched with enhanced data capabilities, Apple’s new iPhone 3G has hit the stores in more than 22 countries world wide, sales started with Japan/New Zealand and ending the drama in west shores of US in Seattle and California. Technology and Gadgets blogs remained engaged with iPhone discussions whole day long, but what these discussions mean to a Pakistani cellular user? I am afraid nothing much.
Never mind, dealers and buyers in Pakistan are anticipating the 3G iPhone thriving in local markets in as little as a few days. Though they were not big in numbers, but the roar and thirst of iPhone enthusiasts could be easily sensed in local markets in Pakistan.
Along with Pakistan, In the many other Asian countries, ads and banners were seen in markets for unlocked iPhones and services to unlock them. Phone sellers (retailers and distributors alike) are already seen taking orders for the new iPhone, who estimated its arrival on the gray market in about a week.
On other side, world wide launch saw a drew thousands in North America, Asia and Europe, with customers creating a half-mile line in Tokyo, braving summer heat in Madrid and scouring Toronto for the shortest queues. Lines stretched kilometers with thousands of buyers in queue to get their iPhone.
Through the process stock cleared, however, many faced activation problems that marred the launch of the new 3G iPhone - alongwith, Apple admitted that its new data-synchronisation service, MobileMe, also suffered from some technical difficulties.
for a closer look at 3G iPhone check out this very detailed video review of device
PTCL in an email has notified all Internet Service Providers that PTCL’s ITI International connectivity with SMW-4 is down due to cable cut in Segment 2.2, 18 km from SMW-4 Karachi Cable Station.
Consequently, all International Internet Traffic has been shifted to SMW-3. Due to this shifting internet users will experience some latency or delay in accessing sites via the Internet.
No deadline was told by the authorities for clearing the cut and restoration of SMW-4.
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission has announced that they have reached at point where they are ready to issue Broadband Wireless Access licenses in the country. Initial draft that has guidelines for the upcoming bidding and for WiMAX license details says that two nation wide licenses will be given away in 2.3Ghz band and one in the 2.5Ghz band.
Operators already operating in the country are banned from bidding - and the bidders are limited to having 60% foreign shareholding. Furthermore, the draft says that licensees will be allowed to rollout and operate network to provide nationwide Broadband Wiress services based on IEEE 802.16e (WiMAX) standards. The system can be point-to-multipoint or mesh radio systems consisting of BWA distribution hub stations and their associated subscriber stations (or BWA access devices). The last mile solution may be done in conjunction with WiFi, but that wholly depend on operators.
The good thing, which may be reconsidered after input from operators, is that it is said mandatory for all operators to share the same tower and existing infrastructure if available.
Dhabi Group and Orascom may seek its opportunities in Bangladesh’s emerging broadband market. Along with, we may see rise in equipment orders for Motorola and Huawei.
Posted by: Aamir Attaa on June 25, 2008 at 7:40 AM
Communications market research firm Infonetics Research has said in one of its recent reports that the worldwide WiMAX equipment market, including fixed and mobile WiMAX equipment, increased 59% sequentially to $363 million in 1Q08.
Infonetics’ report has mentioned that Mobile WiMAX (802.16e) equipment saw a significant hike in sales which jumped 141 percent in first quarter 2008, while overtaking the revenues from Fixed WiMAX (802.16d) equipment for the first time.
This increment in Mobile WiMAX equipment sale was result of number of new network rollouts, while existing networks continued to scale up during first quarter of the current year.
“We expect healthy growth for the evolving mobile WiMAX market, which is seeing strong adoption not only from Tier 2 and 3 carriers, but from Tier 1 nationwide operators as well, like Sprint-Clearwire in the US, SK Telecom and KT in South Korea, Wateen in Pakistan, BSNL in India, and Vodafone and Orange in new territories,” said Richard Webb, wireless analyst for Infonetics Research.
Other highlights from the report:
Motorola takes the lead in overall WiMAX revenues in 2008 after increasing its worldwide mobile revenue share by 10 points, and is the first vendor to exceed $50 million in mobile WiMAX revenue in a single quarter, according to Infonetics’ estimates
Alvarion continues to lead in worldwide fixed WiMAX equipment revenue share, but is getting a run for its money by Telsima, which increased its revenue in 1Q08
The nascent mobile WiMAX phone and Ultra Mobile PC segments showed early traction, together increasing 171% sequentially in 1Q08; these devices have appealing, non-traditional form factors and capabilities and will play a major role in attracting new subscribers to mobile WiMAX networks
The number of fixed and mobile WiMAX subscribers topped 2 million worldwide in 2007 and is expected to triple by the end of 2008
Posted by: Aamir Attaa on June 19, 2008 at 1:50 PM
We saw that the download counter was turning real slow in the start, which didn’t rolled 5/6 downloads per second, however, the latter on in the day the counter was well geared sending more than 1000 downloads per second (personal observation)
Official release says that Firefox 3 browser was downloaded 8.3 million times thus Mozilla beat its goal of 5 million downloads by 3 million and set a new world record, massive one day download….
Mozilla’s servers sent out 83 terabytes of data during these 24 hours, and at the peak there were 17,000 downloads per second (with an average of 4,000 per second). The browser was downloaded in 200 different countries, with the top ten being
U.S.
Germany
Japan
Spain
UK
France
Iran
Italy
Canada
Poland
Snapshot of counter, which is currently offline and not displaying any stats (Snapshot taken from MozilaLinks)
So the Iranians loved Firefox, i was wondering where is India or China in this list?
We also saw some server crashes during the while, obviously, not a big deal when this much of data was being coming out from the servers.
Firefox 3, as a browser seems nice, smart, lightweight, quite quick and with less bugs. However, few extensions may not work in early days.
Mobile Phone Manufacturer, Sony Ericsson has discontinued its office in Pakistan and has decided to manage sales and distribution of its products in Pakistan from the company’s Middle East and Northern Africa regional hub office in Dubai (UAE).
We saw that the download counter was turning real slow in the start, which didn’t rolled 5/6 downloads per second, however, the latter on in the day the counter was well geared sending more than 1000 downloads per second (personal observation)
