LAHORE: With the federal government hinting, and the Punjab most probably following, at wheat release price of Rs1,950 per 40kg, the flour price is set to increase by a staggering 22...
73 per cent – from the current official price of Rs860 per 20 kilo to Rs1,100...
HYDERABAD: President of Pakistan Dr Arif Alvi has said that price hike has become a global issue and prices of essential commodities increase with rise in prices of fuel and appreciation of dollar’s rate against rupee...
IT was an expanding industry all over the world and Pakistan had also witnessed a substantial increase in IT-related income, he said...
Pakistan has asked the Facebook management to link opening of Facebook accounts to mobile numbers to overcome the issue of fake accounts, said a Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) official...
“Mobile numbers are verified through biometric verification system in the country...
Alcatel has appointed United Mobile (UM) as the second official distributor of its smartphones in Pakistan...
Speaking at a press conference, Nauman Durrani, General Manager of Alcatel in Middle East, Pakistan and Egypt said that Pakistan is a high growth market with 3G and 4G penetration and lots of potential...
ISLAMABAD: The auction for mobile telephony spectrum is expected to be held in June, and consultants have expressed optimism that it will be successful because of the potential available in Pakistan...
The briefing was made by a consultant at a meeting of the advisory committee for the release of Next Generation Mobile Services (NGMS) spectrum at the Finance Division on Thursday, chaired by Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue...
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said on Friday that mobile broadband service was being restored across Pakistan after a three-day closure...
The regulatory authority had suspended mobile broadband and restricted access to Twitter, Facebook and YouTube on the interior ministry’s instructions in the wake of violent protests sparked by PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s arrest on Tuesday...
KARACHI: The customer base of branchless banking would become larger than the conventional banks in the next five years as 50 million mobile accounts are expected to be operational by 2020, said Nadeem Hussain, President, Tameer Bank...
Speaking at the ‘Pakistan Payment Summit-2015’, organised by the Total Communications, in collaboration with the State Bank of Pakistan and 1-Link, Nadeem Hussain further stated that a fund of Rs100...
ISLAMABAD: A Chinese manufacturer will launch its mobile handset manufacturing and assembling unit in April (Pakistan’s first), a senior official at Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication said on Monday...
The government had announced tax incentive package for manufacturing of mobile phones in budget 2015-16...
I would like to suggest that the UAE has a technology of mobile homes which they supplied to Palestinians after the destruction of their houses by Israeli forces last year...
I did suggest in these columns a most economical mode of fabricating mobile homes for the needy...
CAPE TOWN: Around 80 per cent of sub-Saharan Africa’s 800 million people should have access to mobile telephones by the end of the decade, double the current rate, although government help is needed to reach far-flung areas, industry body group GSMA said on Wednesday...
The growth of mobile data — an even more powerful economic tool than simple voice services — also hinges on authorities allocating sufficient spectrum, said...
ISLAMABAD: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has advised cellular operators to waive account opening charges for customers opening new mobile banking accounts from next year...
To facilitate the uptake of branchless banking services, the State Bank has advised branchless banking operators to provide free cash-in services to customers holding mobile accounts with effect from Jan 1, 2018...
KARACHI: Edotco Group in partnership with Dawood Hercules Corporation Ltd (DH Corp) announced the acquisition of approximately 13,000 towers from Pakistan Mobile Communications Limited (Jazz)...
Edotco — through Tanzanite Tower Private Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of edotco Pakistan Private Limited — entered into an agreement with Pakistan Mobile Communication Limited to acquire its tower subsidiary, Deodar Private Limited and...
VEHARI: A dispute over mobile phone actually led to the torture of a Class IX student, Sheron Masih, at the Government MC High School, Burewala, who later died of his injuries on Aug 30...
District Police Officer Omar Saeed said in a press release issued here on Tuesday that 16-year-old student Sheron Masih had a quarrel with a class fellow, Ahmed Raza, over a mobile phone...
DOBSINA: As new smartphones hit the market month in month out, one Slovak technology buff is offering visitors to his vintage cellphone museum a trip down memory lane — to when cellphones weighed more than today’s computers and most people couldn’t afford them...
Twenty-six year-old online marketing specialist Stefan Polgari from Slovakia began his collection more than two years ago when he bought a stock of old cellphones online
ISLAMABAD: Though mobile phone service providing companies had been reluctant to share data about their customers with the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR), the matter has been resolved after involving the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA)...
Software developed to collect biweekly data from mobile phone service providing companiesCommittee Chairman Senator Shahi Syed recommended that a withholding tax should not be deducted...