What’s the number of services running in Pakistan which employ mobile phones? Well, here are a few numbers the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority presented at a recent conference in Karachi.
Trial period for mobile service 50%
The estimated percentage of people who believe that a trial period is a necessity before purchasing a mobile service application in Pakistan
Pakistan [...]
Everyone has become more competitive and every potential client you ever dreamed you’d land, has at least ten other companies a phone call away if you don’t give them what they want. Forget the global financial crisis for a moment, the economic and political turmoil that Pakistan is going through, is creating big rifts between [...]
Session 1: Business Technology Challenges
The first session, about Business Technology Challenges, had Parvez Iftikhar give his opening remarks about what the Universal Service Fund was all about and the role it played in the enablement of business in the underserved areas of Pakistan. The USF is essentially a fund for providing the expansion of telecom [...]
Like any country, Pakistan has had a tumultuous ride through history to come as far as it has. A quick shuffle through the history books reveals only a small, perhaps more glamorous side of politics, culture and socialism that makes it seem inconsequential. But the recent advances in technology platforms, development tools and infrastructure have [...]
The large contracts are always awarded through a tender process. Companies who meet the criteria and feel that they would like to submit their proposals to bid for the project. The project is announced in the paper and companies scramble to submit their proposals. So far, everything sounds good.
The good feeling of the proposal sinks [...]
A feature of life in Pakistan, as in many other Third World countries is that there has been a wide take up of mobile communication technology. Getting a telephone landline requires too money and too many bureaucratic hurdles so mobile phone services have seized the opening with relatively lower entry prices. One byproduct of this [...]
The eCommerce hype has forwarded its hype towards mCommerce, and we’re still waiting and watching for the pieces to come together. With more than 90 million Sim cards in circulation, you would think that mobile commerce is a no-brainer! But before you cloud your thinking with an array of arguments, here are some points discussed [...]
ONE Look for what lies beneath. Buried under overhead costs are “noncore expenses”-items not essential to the company’s products and services. (Think telecom costs or travel.) These costs are a good place to start cutting, says Philip Moorcroft, CEO of Moorcroft Group Professional Services. Cuts here could trim your overall budget by up to 10 [...]
It’s all about cutting costs. Big companies want to downsize and reduce costs by outsourcing departments. Midsized companies usually don’t have the budgets to hire, hence they are always on the lookout for people they can contract out assignments or projects to. The reasons why companies want to outsource are fairly straightforward. But [...]
The question “can things get any worse?” always makes for a hot topic of discussion. While businesses around the world brace for the worst, companies in Pakistan are simply being cautious. Perhaps the fact that we haven’t been as plugged into the global economies as we could have been, has been protected us from experiencing [...]
The average organization shares bandwidth across many workstations. Especially in times when costs have to be slashed and businesses are still expected to run as optimally as possible, you have to figure out ways in which you can recycle or salvage as much as possible.
But regardless of size, the internet pipe that comes into your [...]
The adage, “Hell Freezes Over” seems to have gone into overdrive as far as the availability and liquidity of cash flow is concerned. While the general consensus that the majority of companies have not been impacted by the global recession, the ground reality of the situation seems to be this: because there is such limited [...]
So we sit down with Chris Armitage, Area Vice President for UK, Ireland and Pakistan at Teradata Corporation, and talk about the current status of the economy and its impact on the industry. The opening line he throws our way? “I think the recession forces businesses to focus on key areas, and technology has to [...]
Wateen hosted a Bloggers Meetup managed by Rabia Garib of CIO Pakistan and Badar Khushnood of Google Pakistan. I was available in the country and although I had a crazy schedule, there was no way that I was going to miss it. So off I went to Royal Rodale at 4 pm to meet up [...]
Is that even possible? To explain this statement a bit more clearly, let’s take some help from Chicken Little. Just because he was small and felt somewhat insignificant with the giants walking all around him, he had every right to yell, “The sky is falling!” because at that point, that’s probably all he saw. He [...]
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