ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) Mobilink’s mobile financial service, Mobicash has reached a landmark with 30,000 retailers in just 15 months’ time of operations. It has went on to become the fastest growing mobile financial services in Pakistan. MobiCash was started with Mobilink’s aim to increase financial inclusion by providingRead More →
ISLAMABAD (MEDIA ) 3G under wireless local loop (WLL) licence will be restricted as per the licence conditions and unlimited mobility will not be allowed,” Dr Shah Chairman PTA while talking to The Newspaper said that PTA is working on the issue of unlimited use of 3G spectrum in violationRead More →
DUBLIN ( MEDIA ) UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development has urged governments and international financing bodies to remove current barriers to broadband investment. 95 percent of telecommunications infrastructure is private sector-funded, but better incentives are urgently needed if investment is to expand in line with the coming exponential growthRead More →
Islamabad ( BMZ REPORT ) Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) has once again added another feather to its cap. The country’s largest Information Communications Technology (ICT) services provider, has introduced 4Mbps as a minimum benchmark for broadband speeds nationwide. Launched on Pakistan Day, in reaffirming its commitment to Pakistan, theRead More →
BEIJING (MEDIA ) China has demanded a clear explanation from the US over a report which says that the United States National Security Agency infiltrated servers at the headquarters of Huawei Technologies, media reports say. “China was ‘extremely concerned’ about the spying allegations,” said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hong Lei.Read More →
ISLAMABAD ( BMZ REPORT ) We are entering into the new era of technological and communicational advancement- Minister of State for IT, Mrs. Anusha Rahman Owing to the sagacious polices of PML government, we are entering into the new era of latest information and communicational technology: State Minister for ITRead More →
Espoo, Finland ( BMZ REPORT ) Nokia has received an exemption from the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority, in accordance with Chapter 7, Section 18 of the Finnish Securities Markets Act, for the publication time stipulated in Chapter 7, Section 5 of the Act. Nokia has been allowed to postpone theRead More →
ESPOO, FINLAND ( ABRAR MUSTAFA ) Nokia today announced that it now expects the transaction whereby the company will sell substantially all of its Devices & Services business and license its patents to Microsoft to close in April 2014. This compares with Nokia’s previous expectation on the transaction closing inRead More →
ISLAMABAD ( ABRAR MUSTAFA ) Pakistan Telecom Authority and Telecom industry has come to an agreement to solve the issues regarding the license format. The Telecom industry had raised different issues with the newly revised Information Memorandum (IM). These issues were discussed between the two parties and were taken careRead More →
LAHORE ( HAFEEZ REPORT ) Information Technology experts of various countries called on Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif at Arfa Karim Software Technology Park and appreciated his steps for the promotion of information technology. Prof Richard Anderson, University of Washington, Prof Mike Best, Georgia-tech University, Helane Galpaya, Chief Executive OfficerRead More →
ISTANBUL ( MEDIA ) Earlier this week, the Turkish government blocked access to Twitter inside the country in response to a You Tube video that alleges Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s involvement in a corruption scandal. Citizens found a number of ways to circumvent the ban, but according to a newRead More →
ISLAMABAD (MEDIA ) WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum on Monday said his company was serious about the privacy of users and had no plans to collect additional user data at behest of Facebook, which bought the instant messaging app in a $19 billion deal. IN a blog post titled “Setting TheRead More →