TELECOM TIMELINE
2002
State-owned monopoly PTCL has earned over USD 1 billion revenue in FY2001-02.
Internet bandwidth availability increased to 400 MB/s and 250 cities connected through fiber optics.
Under an Ordinance, the division was up-graded into Ministry of Information Technology & Telecommunications (MoITT) in order to govern the IT and Telecom sector.
Inter operator SMS implemented.
46 licenses issued for [...]
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More than 200 people registered for the CIOYearAhead’09, came a little late and stayed until the end. Discussions which are still ongoing and will continue on the various platforms and discussion forums will continue to bring not just thought-provoking dialogue, but also the call to action. The YearAhead’09 conference which took place on March 31 [...]
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There is no doubt that our ICT Sector is making headlines around the globe! Add to that, the fact that the headliner is a CIO Pakistan Technology Pioneer award recipient, there is even more reason to celebrate! Umar and his team recently won the MIT Global Indus Technovator Award for their work on Dritte (dritte.org) [...]
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E-Commerce, E-Banking, Mobile Banking – it’s really all the same to me now. I think we’ve had enough people talk about this and explain everything to us. The more I listen to lectures and conferences, the more ideas I get about where we need to be going. For example, I recently spoke at a Mobile [...]
The Telecom sector of Pakistan has a life of its own. Over the years, it has been able to create a position for itself as a true communication system in a progressive society, henceforth becoming an enabler for Pakistan. The history of the Telecom industry from 1947 to 2009 has crawled its way from providing [...]
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Software industry is a fast past business where cost of rolling out sub-standard products is substantially high. This is true for the local independent software vendors who often tap quality minds without enough emphasis on consistent quality of software releases. Though quality checks aren’t a new phenomenon in Pakistan’s software scene, it is true that [...]
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Editor’s note: Pakistan isn’t the country that comes to mind when you think of innovation in medical research and development. That’s precisely what makes this story such a great one! In the August 2008 issue of CIO Pakistan, we covered Shakeel Akhtar, Manager MIS at Indus Hospital, Pakistan’s first truly paperless community hospital – this [...]
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Azhar Nawaz walks us through the
challenges has helped overcome and the impact NADRA has had!
Technology is only as good as the people it empowers and the benefit it brings. The success of an application, software, project or initiative cannot be measured in how much money was spent or how many companies it awarded contracts to, [...]
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in the Asia Pacific By Ross O. Storey, CIO Asia
SINGAPORE: It is headquartered in Silicon Valley but manufactures its smart wi-fi technology systems in Malaysia and currently earns 80 per cent of its revenue from the Asia Pacific.
Ruckus Wireless has developed a system capable of delivering hi-definition television over a wi-fi network and its vision [...]
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There is so much hype about Cloud Computing with little understanding of what its real potential is. What perhaps added to the confusion was the recently released McKinsey report that headlined there was more hype than reality in the Cloud. For the enterprise sector, perhaps, but the SME and the organizations that are already strapped [...]
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Political Parties Battle
Website Popularity!
A recent survey conducted by online political website, Pkpolitics.com, attempted to determine the popularity and strength of the political party websites. More than 1,300 votes were cast in a short time span of 8 hours. The results were then telecast in Dawn News Television’s weekly program, Wired and Active.
At the close of [...]
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