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<3		- heart
:v		- Pacman
:|]		- robot
:)		- happy
:(		- sad
:P		- tongue
:D		- grin
:O		- gasp
;)		- wink
8)		- glasses
B)		- sunglasses
:3		- cute/cat-like
>:(		- grumpy
:/		- unsure
:’(		- cry
3:)		- devil
O:)		- angel
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Karachi: Telenor has become first ever multi-national company in Pakistan to bring Foreign Direct Investment of $2 billion, said Director Postpaid Market, Bilal Kazmi on Wednesday.
Speaking at Telenor new postpaid service at Korangi Association of Trade & Industry, he said Telenor the world’s seventh largest cellular company achieved target of over 164 million customers. Telenor’s new service Persona - Karobar is specially designed for SMEs.
Patron in-Chief, KATI S M Muneer said due to economic conditions, he requested President Asif Zardari to meet business community during his visit to Karachi. Finance Advisor Shaukat Tarin also assured to meet business leaders in Karachi before announcement of Federal Budget 2009-10 to consider some relief to the ailing industry. He said 90% of knitting industry was closed and majority of weaving industry units are on verge of closure. In such grim situation, country would not be able to achieve even $18 to $19 billion exports target in current fiscal year. Chairman, KATI, Mian Zahid Husain said business community is facing a very difficult phase. The government should come to the rescue of industrial sector.—RT

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It's hardly going to surprise too many people but when Sony Ericsson officially confirm that their handsets, running on the v2.0 of the Android OS are in the works it is enough to make it in the news.

On a Sony Ericsson event in Taiwan, the company's vice president of marketing, Peter Ang has stated that the company is now investing more in the development of an Android smartphone than in the other mobile operational systems that the company uses (Symbian and Android that is).

The good news is that the Sony Ericsson Android handset will come spiced with the company's proprietary UI which we really dig. It does look pretty nicely over Symbian on the Idou, so we are now eager to see how it combines with the Android OS.

While a release date would have been sweet to know, Peter Ang has refrained from commenting on that. Considering that Android v2.0 codenamed Donut is the Android OS of choice for Sony Ericsson (along with Acer and Motorola) we can't really see any devices coming out before the last quarter of the year.

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www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Pakistan’s mobile subscriber base has reached 91.979 million at the end of April, up from 91.442 million in March, reports Pakisitan Telecommunications Authority. Mobilink emerged as the market leader with a subscriber base of 28.282 million rising from 28.240 million a month earlier. Telenor took the second position as its subscriber base passes 20 million mark, up from 19.985 million. Ufone’s subscriber base which stood at 19.612 million in March rose to 19.713 million. Whereas Warid posted 17.511 million subscribers versus 17.376 million in March. Zong, the China Mobile subsidiary, ended April with 6.129 million subscribers, up from 5.980 million in March. Mobile penetration in the country stood at 57.10% of the population in April, versus 55.90% at 2008 start.

KARACHI: Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Dr Mohammed Yaseen has said that broadband services have potential to revolt the means of information and communication in all spheres of life, impacting positively on the socio-economic status of the masses.

Speaking as a chief guest at Connect Conference 2009 on Wednesday, Dr Yaseen said the telecom regulator has taken a number of key initiatives for the upbringing of broadband with rapid pace in the country. He stressed the need to create awareness of technology in users for its speedy penetration that would widen the customers’ base and reduce the rate of services after emergence of quality conscious competitors.

“PTA is facilitating growth of various telecom services including broadband particularly new entrants like Telecard and Wi-tribe that are preparing to launch Wimax Broadband services in the market,” PTA chairman added.

Dr Yaseen said that PTA has also formed a Broadband Stakeholders Group to enhance industry coordination and the promotion of broadband services, urging operators also for effective awareness and marketing campaign in a move to attract new users. He reiterated the protection of sector’s consumers to be ensured in all possible ways by the authority particularly reduction in General Sales Tax and import duties on telephony services on priority. The watchdog is also working deliberately to revive the failing revenues by users that would also pave the way for the inflow of handsome foreign direct investment (FDI) in the telecom sector, he further said.

He also mentioned authority’s recent achievements of the sector including Mobile Number Portability having 0.4 million ported subscribers, new SIM verification system, AJ&K licencing, installation of 349 Rabta Ghar Rural Telephony, Grey Traffic Monitoring and provisioning of free dial-up services. Dr Yaseen said the socio-economic impact of telecommunication sector has been found encouraging by the regulator’s study whereas surveys on other various aspects of telecom sector are underway.

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) has decided to allow the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and DSL operators to buy Internet bandwidth from backbone operators other than the PTCL, thus settling a two-year row of the ISPs versus the PTCL. 

The ISPs have been complaining to the PTA to amend their DSL Interconnect Agreement with the PTCL signed a few years ago in which the ISPs were restricted to procure Internet bandwidth from the PTCL only. Since the telecom deregulation in 2004, new operators have laid their infrastructure nationally as well as internationally and two years back, second alternate backbone provider, the TWA, started its services in the country. 

But the DSL operators, who are the major purchaser of Internet bandwidth, were restrained by their unilateral agreement with the PTCL not to buy bandwidth from any operator other than the PTCL. The ISPs have been complaining to the PTA time and again against this monopolistic and anti-competitive restriction that did not allow them to have redundancy and benefit of competitive prices from alternate operator. 

The PTA, after a series of negotiations, has finally issued the minutes of the meeting held between the ISPAK (Internet Service Providers Association of Pakistan) and the PTCL on 5th May 2009 in which it was decided that the ISPs will be free to buy Internet bandwidth from third party operators and would be allowed to link their optical fibre cable to one PTCL exchange per city. The PTA has also decided that the PTCL will not increase charges of its leased circuits used by the DSL operators for inter-exchange bandwidth only for the next year. 

The PTA has reserved a judgment on settling the DSL wholesale and retail prices of the PTCL and committed to resolve this long outstanding issue within a month. Pakistan has come a long way from the early days of Internet in 1990s with only one submarine cable connecting the country with rest of the world. The country today has three submarine cables linking Karachi with Southeast Asia, Europe and North America named as SWM3, SMW4 and TWA, first two with the PTCL and the third with a private operator. The total Internet bandwidth to the country stands at around 18 gigabytes, growing at around 45% every year for the last three years.

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