PTCL gives everyone call waiting
PTCL seems to have turned on Call Waiting for everyone. There is general confusion as to why we now suddenly get beeps during calls and why internet dialup connections fail even more quickly than usual.
Apparently if you hear the beep you can dial 'flash' followed by a 1 to get the call that is waiting.
Don't know how to turn this facility off. It remains to be seen if PTCL charges us for this.
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PTA issues show cause notice to Ufone for poor service
PTA threatens Ufone over its bad service, although I would say that it is much better than that of Mobilink.
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Govt to beef up IT security training: Leghari
Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari has called for efforts to secure information being stored and processed through information technology to ensure accuracy and transparency in the transactions.
With the IT growing Information and Network security is becoming increasingly important, however there is a growing realisation that Pakistani security resources are very scarce. At the moment there are only 2 companies specialising in IT security, PakCERT a security research company and Xnet Solutions a manufacturer of hardware firewalls. This is clearly not enough, although many consultancies do work in the security field
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i highly doubt that claims made by the anonymous guy are factual. i work for an offshore company and we have our offices in khi, isb and lhr. recently we hired the services of pakcert and they are just too damn good and really know their stuff too well. i have seen their client list and they have pretty much all the big names there. regarding expertise and professionalism, multiple ccie/cissp/cisa certified people in one organization is not a joke and not at all common in pakistan.
we had the same concerns reagarding certs being non-profit but even international certs like aus-cert charge people for services and training to cover their cost. i think its ok for pakcert to charge for its services too as they are providing free alerts and advisories to the pakistani community.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2005 at 10:22:00 AM GMT+5
These frustrated posts are made by Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka (nickname RSnake from the GForce hacking group) who used the domain attitudex.com for web defacements with email address like root@attitudex.com and gforce@attitudex.com. Muhammad Faisal Rauf Danka can now be contacted at mfrd@attitudex.com
Its sad that he is unable to secure a job and posts crap like this on websites and forums that carry mis-guiding information about pakcert. i feel sorry for you faisal.
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Monday, March 12, 2007 at 8:24:00 PM GMT+5
Anybody with access to google can easily figure out that there are real certified professionals working for pakcert.
Just to add that the accused hacker dr nuker is Misbah Khan and NOT Qazi Misbahuddin Ahmed (two different people with two totally different names and identities) so I guess its time for mr. anonymous (Faisal - Rsnake of GForce) to get a reality (and insanity) check.
A friendly advice Faisal, its high time that you grow up and start working on your own career instead of wasting your time searching and posting bullcrap. Your frustration will automatically end once you secure a permanent job. Try a search engine this time to search for your own career instead of being jealous looking at others. It takes more than just jargons from certification books to secure a well placed position.
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Saturday, March 31, 2007 at 11:41:00 AM GMT+5
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Saturday, April 7, 2007 at 1:26:00 PM GMT+5
Why the blog administrator does not delete all the comments that are of personal /and direct in nature?
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at 6:40:00 AM GMT+5
PTA renews Instaphone licence for $291m
The PTA allows Pakcom Limited (parent company of Instaphone) to pay the license renewal fee of $291 million in installments over 15 years.
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Etisalat gives way to second mobile and fixed lines operator
Abu Dhabi - A second operator could enter the UAE market to offer mobile telephony alongwith fixed land lines as the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA) is working out the legal frame work, clearing the way for competition.
Etisalat recently entered the big market of Saudi Arabia after taking over stakes in Sudan Telecom, Qatar, Zanzibar. It is now eying Pakistan as well as Tanzania.
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Yahoo! Messenger! for SMS! with Mobilink! in Pakistan!
The service connects Mobilink and Yahoo! messenger services. It allows Mobilink usrs to send a message to Yahoo! messenger users and vice versa. The Mobilink user has to pay for each SMS, but the Yahoo! user gets to send messages for free.
Full Press release: http://www.hardwarezone.com/news/view.php?id=1118&cid=4
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Comparision of mobile call rates
The PTA's own site at www.pta.gov.pk doesn't usually work, so it is good to see that they have arranged for a mirror at http://pta.ire-s.com/index.php - this is not particularly fast, but it does work.
There is a good comparision of
prepaid tarrifs on http://pta.ire-s.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=542 and
postpaid tarrifs on http://pta.ire-s.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=542
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Mobile number portability to start in January
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All the six cellular mobile operators on Tuesday agreed to form a supervisory board to implement the MNP with assistance of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). The operators will equally share initial expenses in this regard.
In a meeting attended by the PTA chairman, PTA member (finance) and chief executive officers of Mobilink, Ufone, Paktel, Instaphone, Telenor and Warid Telecom, the modalities of the MNP were discussed at length.
Click on the link for the full text.
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Optical Fiber Network Backbone
Multinet Pakistan (Pvt.) Ltd. and Telekom Malaysia have announced a joint venture to lay the largest Optical Fiber Network Backbone in Pakistan. This network would consist of 4,500 Km of fully redundant rings.
Involving an investment of US$100,000,000 the press release expects the network to be finished within 18 months.
See http://www.multi.net.pk/longhaul/ for the full press release.
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ZTE to setup R&D center in Pakistan
ZTE, China's largest publicly traded telecommunications equipment maker, said it will set up a research and development center in Pakistan to serve the South Asian market.
ZTE's involvement with Pakistan dates back to 1998, when it won its first foreign equipment order there, worth US$95 million (HK$741 million).
Two years later it opened a manufacturing facility there, its first outside China, which supplies telecom switching equipment to local customers. Last month, ZTE said it began production of code division multiple access equipment at a plant in Haryana, India, its first in that country.
Click on the link for full story.
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Mobilink warned
The National Assembly Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat [no, I don't know what that means or does, I just blog here - BP.], on Tuesday asked the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to initiate strict action against mobile companies that are offering poor services to their clients. Later, the PTA issued show cause notice to initiate proceedings against Mobilink, based on the result of a survey conducted recently by the authority.
Mobilink was forced to give its subscribers Rs50 million last year after it was found to have provided sub-par service. The service levels have gone downhill since then and the PTA is now threatening cancelation of the licence.
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Mobilink gets another area code
Mobilink has started using 0301 in addition to its 0300 area code. There is a press release pretending to be a "Special Report" about this on the Pakistan Times website but it is vomit inducing so you are recommended not to click on this http://pakistantimes.net/2005/04/02/top10.htm link.
The Pakistan Times used to be one of the Premier newspapers in Pakistan before being destroyed/nationalised by convicted murderer/Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto.
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Worldcall starts consumer VoIP
Press Release: Worldcall, a payphone operator turned VoIP service
provider, has deployed Verso's gateway and softswitch
applications to deliver consumer VoIP services in
Pakistan. The provider is currently offering services
in 3 cities, with plans to expand the service to 14
cities by the end of the year.
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WLL to be restricted to single cell mobility: Awais
Speaking at the Telecommunication Investment Conference organised by the CFA Association of Pakistan Mr. Leghari said "The ultimate success of the policies lies in the fact that the consumer is spoilt for choice". He also talked about number portability and lowering prices.
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There was some question whether CDMA WLL requires soft hand offs between adjacent cells to maintain quality of service. So I am wondering how the single cell restriction affect Companies like Telecard and their business plans.
Does anyone have any experience with Telecard's GO CDMA WLL phones?
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Sunday, April 24, 2005 at 11:20:00 AM GMT+5
Govt seeks optical link with Indian telecom giants
Ministry of telecom is negotiating with several Indian giants to materialise the proposed Pak-India direct optical link project, which was likely to start by June 2005.
PTCL will be managing the Paksitan side of the deal.
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Telecommunication Investment Conference
Karachi, 02 April 2005: The CFA Association of Pakistan is organising the first ever international Telecommunication Investment Conference with the theme of "Post Deregulation: Opportunities and Challenges" today.
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