CIOPakistan.com - Business Technology Leadership » CIO April 2009 http://ciopakistan.com CIO Pakistan, an IDG Partner publication, generates and publishes content about the local technology-savvy business and technology community Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:02:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 E-Pay http://ciopakistan.com/2009/04/e-pay/ http://ciopakistan.com/2009/04/e-pay/#comments Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:40:25 +0000 graphics http://ciopakistan.com/?p=8628 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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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