Application Filed for Issuance of Contempt of Court Orders Against CEO, Telenor Pakistan

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf_eR8AFpY5PXv0GnWnkH7IL6jxru_uimo29lBuHfaxE9t-tZogyPCXt-K1X9oFJE2j7c_gOKD81aptJ4XOzs_hTTQagb5jZD7Da0bmP9MAXfta7K4XluACcHZVMZVpJndUUKduFP4CEo/s1600/telenor-logo1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf_eR8AFpY5PXv0GnWnkH7IL6jxru_uimo29lBuHfaxE9t-tZogyPCXt-K1X9oFJE2j7c_gOKD81aptJ4XOzs_hTTQagb5jZD7Da0bmP9MAXfta7K4XluACcHZVMZVpJndUUKduFP4CEo/s1600/telenor-logo1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> An application has been filed with Sindh High Court to issue Contempt of Court notices to Mr. Lars Christian Iuel, CEO, Telenor Pakistan and Mr. Salman Malik, CEO, Telenor LDI Communications, a subsidiary of Telenor Pakistan, for <a href="http://rexhacker.blogspot.com/2014/01/breaking-telenor-exits-ich.html" target="_blank">exiting ICH</a> when the court had directed all ICH players to maintain the status quo on ICH till further notice.<br /> It merits mentioning here that Sindh High Court had issued an interim directive on January 27th, 2014 for maintaining the Status Quo of International Clearing House or ICH till any further notice.<br /> A court order sent today (January 31st, 2014) to CEO, Telenor Pakistan and CEO of Telenor LDI Communication – copy of which is available with RexHacker – said that both the individuals are required to appear in the court in person on February 4th, 2014 to submit their reply against the application filed by LDI operators.<br /> It maybe recalled that Telenor – on January 29th, 2014 – <a href="http://rexhacker.blogspot.com/2014/01/breaking-telenor-exits-ich.html" target="_blank">announced</a> that it exited ICH citing huge losses due to increased grey traffic and hence lesser revenues from LDI business.<br /> <div class="adsxpls" id="adsxpls1" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> </div> In its press release – received by media on Jan 29th – Telenor maintained that it exited ICH on January 25th, 2014.<br /> Our sources confirm that Telenor Pakistan was not happy the revenue share it was getting through ICH. Sources said that due to decrement in its revenues, Telenor had asked PTA and ICH consortium to compensate it through MTR-I (Mobile Termination Rate) of Rs. 1.20 per minute, which was never implemented and as a protest Telenor exited ICH.<br /> Telenor said that it had communicated its concerns to PTA and Ministry of IT, well ahead of exiting ICH, but they were never addressed and it was left with no option but to leave ICH.<br /> Amid opposition from CCP, ICH was implemented on October 1st, 2012 with a primary purpose of eliminating grey traffic. However, grey traffic only grew after ICH and legal international incoming traffic to Pakistan dropped from 1.9 billion minutes per month to mere 450 million minutes per month.<br /> Interestingly, since ICH was formed on the direction of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority under the policy from Ministry of Information technology, it remains unclear if Telenor could exit ICH on its own without any approvals from PTA.</div>

Application Filed for Issuance of Contempt of Court Orders Against CEO, Telenor Pakistan

An application has been filed with Sindh High Court to issue Contempt of Court notices to Mr. Lars Christian Iuel, CEO, Telenor Pakistan...

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PTCL Upgrades All 1Mbps Economy Subscribers to 2Mbps Economy Package

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiqnYryvCSmHJ65W8K2r1da_acYpMLooSYrYaB3dgAOABGUEh6hRCnaj7LrRVM7FGWCJaVMJM8NvxsbeFBJBr-f3Rmh5mxD4M3bnTsJl-pmfftjZIjsq1F1OpvJnAyUPGxoQ1sagnj4hA/s1600/PTCL-2Mpbs-Economy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiqnYryvCSmHJ65W8K2r1da_acYpMLooSYrYaB3dgAOABGUEh6hRCnaj7LrRVM7FGWCJaVMJM8NvxsbeFBJBr-f3Rmh5mxD4M3bnTsJl-pmfftjZIjsq1F1OpvJnAyUPGxoQ1sagnj4hA/s1600/PTCL-2Mpbs-Economy.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> PTCL has upgraded all of its 1Mbps economy package subscribers to 2Mbps Economy package automatically with same monthly rental till April 30th, 2014.<br /> PTCL, on its website, said that 2Mbps Economy Package will allow all existing 1Mbps Economy Package subscribers to enjoy double data rate speed.<br /> <div class="adsxpls" id="adsxpls1" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"> </div> From May 1st, 2014 all subscribers with 2Mbps Economy package will be charged with Rs. 750 per month with a data limit of 10 GBs per month.<br /> All customer who do not wish to continue with 2Mbps Economy will have to Opt out by calling 1236 and reverting back to 1Mbps Economy, or they will be shifted to 2Mbps Economy package for ever.<br /> It was way better if PTCL had offered an opt-in upgrade instead of forcefully upgrading customers to high-bandwidths and then charging extra from them after the promotion period.<br /> <strong>Promotion Highlights:</strong><br /> <ul> <li>All 1Mbps Economy Package users are upgraded to 2Mbps Economy package</li> <li>2Mbps Economy package promotion charges: Rs. 499 per month</li> <li>Download Limit for 2Mbps Economy pacge: 10 GBs</li> <li>Additional GBs at Rs. 100 per GB</li> <li>Billing Cap at Rs. 1,500 per month</li> <li>Upgrade Promotion is valid up to 30th April 2014</li> <li>All customer who do not wish to continue with 2Mbps Economy will have to Opt out by calling 1236 and reverting back to 1Mbps Economy.</li> <li>From 1st May 2014 2Mbps Economy charges @ Rs.750 per month will be charged. (10GB download limit, Additional GBs at Rs. 100 per GB with billing cap at Rs. 1,750 per month.</li> </ul> </div>

PTCL Upgrades All 1Mbps Economy Subscribers to 2Mbps Economy Package

PTCL has upgraded all of its 1Mbps economy package subscribers to 2Mbps Economy package automatically with same monthly rental till April...

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Yahoo Mail hacked; Change Your Account Password Immediately

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoyywnmkb34zVC8LTInLGaQQ7osD9lbq8pXBvAhZv9b9vtupPRZPofJ0sHiNqDwjCdhd4JXbikeDce4VHH3qEcFp7FfqrCMtBa1fZKh3cR388NM333CSECt4V7akEQCJRi7a4jZrbqGhY/s1600/Yahoo+Mail+hacked.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoyywnmkb34zVC8LTInLGaQQ7osD9lbq8pXBvAhZv9b9vtupPRZPofJ0sHiNqDwjCdhd4JXbikeDce4VHH3qEcFp7FfqrCMtBa1fZKh3cR388NM333CSECt4V7akEQCJRi7a4jZrbqGhY/s1600/Yahoo+Mail+hacked.png" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> A really bad year for the world's second-largest email service provider, <b>Yahoo Mail</b>! The company <a href="http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/75083532312/important-security-update-for-yahoo-mail-users" target="_blank">announced</a> today, '<i>we identified a coordinated effort to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo Mail accounts</i>', user names and passwords of its email customers have been stolen and are used to access multiple accounts.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Yahoo did not say how many accounts have been affected, and neither they are sure about the source of the leaked users' credentials. It appears to have come from a third party database being compromised, and not an infiltration of Yahoo's own servers.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span class="main-article-info"><div style="text-align: justify;"> "<i>We have no evidence that they were obtained directly from Yahoo’s systems. Our ongoing investigation shows that malicious computer software used the list of usernames and passwords to access Yahoo Mail accounts. The information sought in the attack seems to be names and email addresses from the affected accounts’ most recent sent emails.</i>"</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> For now, Yahoo is taking proactive actions to protect their affected users, "<i>We are resetting passwords on impacted accounts and we are using second sign-in verification to allow users to re-secure their accounts. Impacted users will be prompted (if not, already) to change their password and may receive an email notification or an SMS text if they have added a mobile number to their account.</i>" </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> People frequently use the same passwords on multiple accounts, so possibly hackers are brute-forcing Yahoo accounts with the user credentials stolen from other data breaches. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Yahoo users can prevent account hijacks by using a strong and unique password. You can use 'Random strong password generator' feature of <i>DuckDuckGo search engine</i> to get a unique & strong password. </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Users are also recommended to enable two-factor authentication, which requires a code texted to the legitimate user's mobile phone whenever a login attempt is made from a new computer.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Yahoo! was hacked in July 2012, with attackers stealing 450,000 email addresses and passwords from a Yahoo! contributor network.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> </div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Readers can also download two free Whitepaper related to the Email and account security:</div> <ol style="text-align: justify;"> <li>Cloud-Based Email Archiving</li> <li>Email Data Loss Prevention</li> </ol> <div style="text-align: justify;"> Well, Yahoo is now working with federal law enforcement as a part of its investigation.</div> </span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"> <span class="main-article-info"></span></div> </div>

Yahoo Mail hacked; Change Your Account Password Immediately

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Ufone Celebrates its 13th Anniversary

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqfdr_T74ug5cwH8zyUymOjYaojzo2qyWi_hqAaD9yyjvkpV_OWITrq4pTOWM9JxCy5MlKn5FmBjmVhTI9CnalvGDUlesWI0NiCAbmydx9LefDySa5VublpVBX4w09qOwSPnHP1_bL6fU/s1600/Ufone-13th-Anniversary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqfdr_T74ug5cwH8zyUymOjYaojzo2qyWi_hqAaD9yyjvkpV_OWITrq4pTOWM9JxCy5MlKn5FmBjmVhTI9CnalvGDUlesWI0NiCAbmydx9LefDySa5VublpVBX4w09qOwSPnHP1_bL6fU/s1600/Ufone-13th-Anniversary.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> Ufone celebrated its 13th anniversary this week with central cake cutting ceremony held at Ufone Tower in Islamabad.<br /> The event was attended by the management along with a large number of Ufone employees from the twin cities of Islamabad & Rawalpindi.<br /> Above picture shows Mr. Abdul Aziz (4th from left), President and CEO of Ufone along with top management at the cake cutting ceremony.</div>

Ufone Celebrates its 13th Anniversary

Ufone celebrated its 13th anniversary this week with central cake cutting ceremony held at Ufone Tower in Islamabad. The event was atten...

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PTCL Invests in Largest Submarine Cable System

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibzHEFFiQcyWMnCMsJuI-qasRpmTtbgtXuQWS-xerq3CJMv5GlZn21lORpC0flFgLoFArEkP36lrXW0JigwIiO3QMDY8ABnVTaeoYK7gig9O1SO5iRS-E4eqtX0HfrcGP8L5SBGb-kTO0/s1600/PTCL+Invests+in+Largest+Submarine+Cable+System.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibzHEFFiQcyWMnCMsJuI-qasRpmTtbgtXuQWS-xerq3CJMv5GlZn21lORpC0flFgLoFArEkP36lrXW0JigwIiO3QMDY8ABnVTaeoYK7gig9O1SO5iRS-E4eqtX0HfrcGP8L5SBGb-kTO0/s1600/PTCL+Invests+in+Largest+Submarine+Cable+System.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has said that it is investing in one of the largest international submarine cable consortium system, in collaboration with the leading telecom operators of the world.<br /> The undersea cable system encompasses a multimillion dollar investment and will enable Pakistan to meet its future information communications needs.<br /> Spanning approximately 25,000 KMs, the AAE-1 submarine cable will be one of the first cable systems connecting Hong Kong, Singapore, Middle East, Africa and Europe and provide an alternative low latency route between Pakistan and rest of the world.<br /> The new cable system, Asia Africa Europe (AAE-1), will be adding terabits of bandwidth to PTCL’s international capacity, besides building redundancy to its existing international infrastructure on eastern and western side of the Arabian Sea.<br /> Sayyed Muhammad Imran Ali, PTCL Executive Vice President (EVP) International Business Relations and Essa Khalifa Alsuwaidi, PTCL Executive Vice President (EVP) International Investments & Capacity Sales represented PTCL at the signing ceremony.<br /> “This global initiative marks our vision to cater for the growing broadband and data services requirements of Pakistan for both the consumer and corporate segments”, said Walid Irshaid, President & CEO, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL).<br /> “This will be the fourth high capacity undersea cable system of PTCL and will serve as a catalyst to stimulate growth and development in the country by providing robust, reliable and lowest latency connectivity. The company has already invested in three international cable consortium systems SMW3, SMW4 and IMEWE, which act as a gateway for Pakistan to the information superhighway”, added Walid Irshaid.<br /> AAE-1 is one of the largest cable systems launched and will employ 100Gbps technology with wavelength add/drop branching units along the lowest latency route and a design capacity of over 40 terabits.<br /> The seventeen major carriers including China Unicom, Chuan Wei, Djibouti Telecom, Etisalat, Mobily, Omantel, OTEGLOBE, Ooredoo, PCCW Global, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL), Telecom Egypt, TOT, Viettel and some other carriers, have signed the Construction and Maintenance Agreement (C&MA) in Hong Kong on January 27, 2014 to officially mark the commencement of the AAE-1 Project.<br /> Additionally, having two diversified Points of Presence (PoP) in Asia (Hong Kong and Singapore) and three onward connectivity options in Europe (via France, Italy and Greece) will provide the requisite flexibility for these carriers and their customers.<br /> The target completion date for AAE-1 cable construction is the year 2016. When completed, it will connect Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, India, Pakistan, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Yemen, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Greece, Italy and France.</div>

PTCL Invests in Largest Submarine Cable System

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Wateen to Offer Managed VSAT Services to State Bank of Pakistan

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFAh0ljPctPnqNPO9x-wfZNdGDR13KehyT7Lh-8rsD1hiJbS59JyHxo_CNbjAcNAAOxhBE1tgom1NxMtcjKUYTNqMHho_pAHezaivrFdSTaKMjEJv_mYaqWNGFEN4yij8UeGR6lvrTLA4/s1600/Wateen-Logo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFAh0ljPctPnqNPO9x-wfZNdGDR13KehyT7Lh-8rsD1hiJbS59JyHxo_CNbjAcNAAOxhBE1tgom1NxMtcjKUYTNqMHho_pAHezaivrFdSTaKMjEJv_mYaqWNGFEN4yij8UeGR6lvrTLA4/s1600/Wateen-Logo.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> Wateen today announced that it has been awarded a three year Managed Services contract by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to provide VSAT Hub & Spoke operations, field maintenance and technical support to connect its Head office and 14 regional and branch offices. <br /> Being the central bank of Pakistan with countrywide operations, State Bank of Pakistan felt the need to centralize its applications to reach all its branches. Wateen’s VSAT Bandwidth on PAKSAT Satellite will connect 15 State Bank sites. This will reduce the costs on distributed backend operations of State Bank of Pakistan by bringing them to the front end with the centralization of core backend applications.<br /> During this three year project, starting this month, Wateen Telecom will maintain PAKSAT satellite Bandwidth and will provide 24-hour (SLA) services to State Bank of Pakistan. Wateen Telecom won this project after tough competition with other vendors, primarily due to the company’s big customer clientele of VSAT and excellent support model in telecom sector.<br /> Commenting on the contract, Mr. Naeem Zamindar, CEO Wateen Telecom, said,<br /> <blockquote> “This achievement is a direct result of Wateen’s provision of best service quality to all its customers; we are committed to the success of our customers. We are pleased to have been selected for this project, which underscores Wateen’s expertise in providing an array of maintenance and equipment services to the State Bank of Pakistan. We look forward to expanding our relationship with the SBP with this important achievement.”</blockquote> </div>

Wateen to Offer Managed VSAT Services to State Bank of Pakistan

Wateen today announced that it has been awarded a three year Managed Services contract by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) to provide VS...

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