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PTA Received 31,266 Complaints Against Telecom Companies During 2012-13

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Pakistan Telecommunication Authority received 31,266 complaints 
against telecom operators including cellular operators, PTCL, LLs, LDIs,
 WLL, ISPs and CVAS during 2012-13, compared to 33,310 complaints during
 the previous year, said PTA’s annual report for 2012-13 which is going 
to get public in next few weeks.<br />
PTA claims that almost 98% of consumer complaints – or a total of 
30,912 complaints, were resolved after authority perused them with the 
relative operators.<br />
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The number of complaints against CMOs has the highest share (64%) in total complaints followed by PTCL (34%). <br />
With respect to current 128.93 million cellular subscribers, the 
number of complaints against CMOs is a small ratio, compared to 
complaints vs. subscriber base ratio of PTCL. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Consumer Complaints Received During 2012-13</span></h4>
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Interestingly, the number of complaints against CMOs during FY2012-13
 has dropped by 7% compared to FY2011-12, whereas complaints against 
PTCL (the fixed line incumbent operator) have increased by 7% during the
 same period. <br />
PTA said that in collaboration with operators, it has taken 
appropriate actions to reduce the problems faced by cellular mobile 
users. <br />
A deeper analysis of the cellular complaints reveal that out of the 
19,938 complaints received against mobile services and Mobile Number 
Portability (MNP), 43.5% were related to misuse of mobile services 
followed by MNP (20.4%). <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Share of Complaints by Category (CMTOs & MNP) – FY 2013</span></h4>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Complaints’ Received and Resolved (Mobile Operators) – FY2012-13</span></h4>
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Over the last two years, complaints related to mobile number 
portability (MNP) issues have also decreased by 10% of the total 
cellular mobile complaints received by PTA. Although the uptake of 
cellular mobile services has profound benefits for the country, the low 
literacy rate and some mischievous elements trouble the customers with 
wrong calls, obnoxious and unwanted communication. Therefore, this 
category has the highest rate of complaints in the cellular sector. <br />
Illegal practices such as obnoxious, fraudulent calls/SMS constitute 
17.3% of the complaints while billing, QoS, VAS, poor customer issues 
were about illegal practices and others form the rest. Looking at the 
complaints received against each cellular operator, the maximum number 
of complaints (5,139) were against Mobilink since it has the highest 
subscriber base as well, followed by Telenor, Ufone, Warid and CMPak 
with 4,157, 4,478, 3,087 and 2,436 complaints respectively. <br />
The percentage breakup of the total complains by each operator 
received by PTA shows that Mobilink had the highest number of complaints
 at 27% followed by Telnor 23%, Ufone 21%, Warid 16% and CMPak 13%. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Mobile Operators Complaints Share – FY2012-13</span></h4>
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 PTCL has virtual monopoly over fixed line sector. Therefore, the 
nature and number of complaints against the company depicts the overall 
state of the local loop sector in Pakistan. </div>
The Authority received 10,811 complaints against PTCL in various 
categories. However, faults/disruption in service constitutes the major 
chunk of the complaints. <br />
The infrastructure of the incumbent needs immediate attention to curb
 this major portion of complaints. Provision of service, QoS, billing 
issues and other complaints make up the rest of the complaints. </div>

PTA Received 31,266 Complaints Against Telecom Companies During 2012-13

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority received 31,266 complaints against telecom operators including cellular operators, PTCL, LLs, LDIs, ...

12:45:00 PM

PTA to Block 10 Paisas Call Setup Charges Imposed by Telcos

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Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has decided to reverse the 
imposition of 10 pasias plus tax as call set-up charges by telecom 
operators.<br />

It maybe recalled that Ufone, Mobilink and Telenor had <a href="http://rexhacker.blogspot.com/2013/12/new-year-gift-mobile-companies-to.html" target="_blank">imposed a call-setup charges of 10 paisas plus tax on each call</a> from this week. These call setup charges are applicable on all charged, bundled and free offers for prepaid customers.<br />
PTA, which wasn’t regulating the cellular pricing since 2005, to let 
the market operate freely and openly, has now decided to step in.<br />

PTA said that move is aimed at safeguarding customers’ interests and 
to make sure that industry remains with-in the certain limits. PTA said 
that authority is preparing a notification against the call setup 
charges and cellular operators will be notified about the decision 
accordingly.<br />

Experts say that call setup charges make no sense and they pose as an
 extra charge for a service that is itself charged. They said that 
operators should move to more transparent way of charging customers by 
revising air-time charges instead of imposing meaningless and first of 
its kind charges, i.e. call setup charges.</div>

PTA to Block 10 Paisas Call Setup Charges Imposed by Telcos

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has decided to reverse the imposition of 10 pasias plus tax as call set-up charges by telecom oper...

3:16:00 PM

Pakistanis Exchanged 316 Billion SMS During 2012-13

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Pakistani mobile phone users exchanged staggering 315.7 billion text 
messages during July 2012 to June 2013 or 865 million SMS messages a 
day, said a report prepared by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, 
which is exclusively available with RexHacker now.<br />
Telecom sector has witnessed substantial growth for SMS traffic over 
the years. Thanks to unlimited SMS packages by cellular operators and 
increased adoption of SMS services, the country is now among the top SMS
 trafficked countries in the world.<br />
In year 2012-13, the total SMS traffic grew 13.68% from previous 
year, though the growth rate is lower than corresponding period of 
previous year but the total figure of SMS exchanged is impressive.<br />
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SMS ratio per subscriber per month grew notably. On average a single 
mobile phone user sent 214 SMS per month, or 7.13 messages per day, up 
from 131 message per user month average in 2009-10.<br />
This huge number in SMS traffic is likely to grow in Pakistan for 
next couple of years, when finally it is destined to see a decline due 
to increasing trend of SMS-based mobile apps such as WhatsApp and Viber.<br />
Cellular companies are already preparing themselves for the future by offering bundled offers with unlimited WhatsApp usage.</div>

Pakistanis Exchanged 316 Billion SMS During 2012-13

Pakistani mobile phone users exchanged staggering 315.7 billion text messages during July 2012 to June 2013 or 865 million SMS messages a ...

3:13:00 PM

Cryptolocker: The Most Destructive and Rapidly Growing Trojan Yet!

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If by any chance you are in the cyber security, then you must have overheard about this <a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a>freshest and most fierce piece of computer Trojan ever developed, called CryptoLocker.<br />

Unlike other computer malwares and Trojans which performs unusual 
type of activities on the victim machine, such as stealing private data,
 gaining access to personal information, garbling files, or to advertise
 political or humorous messages on the user’s screen; CryptoLocker uses 
entirely offbeat strategy to destroy your data and which makes your data
 recovery impossible.<br />
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So, what exactly is CryptoLocker and how does it works?<br />

First reported in September 2013, a CryptoLocker is a ransomware 
trojan that expertly targets Windows based PC (including latest version 
of Windows 8), and annihilate stored data beyond the proficiency of any 
data recovery process.<br />

In case if you don’t know, “Ransomware is a kind of malware which 
limits your access to your own computer, or your certain files, and asks
 some sort of ransom to be paid in order to unlock your PC.”<br />

What it really does is that, it securely encrypts the data including 
documents, photos and videos in the victim’s machine using RSA-2048 
security algorithms which is almost un-breakable.<br />

Once the encryption is done, it uncovers itself, demanding the 
infected user to pay the ransom in order to gain their sensitive data 
back. It also forewarns the user to not try to get rid of the 
CryptoLocker program as it will enduringly obliterate their personal 
data by razing the secret-key from the server.<br />
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Considering that CryptoLocker employs RSA for data encryption, It 
merits mentioning here that RSA uses public-key cryptography, which 
means that user’s data is encrypted using the single public-key and for 
each unique public-key, there is a private-key; the encrypted data could
 only be recovered when the private-key is provided to the CryptoLocker 
program.<br />

This private-key is only available on the CryptoLocker secret server 
on the Internet which will be provided to the sufferer if he pays the 
demanding amount in a given time frame, if a user fall short to pay the 
requested amount in the defined time, his private-key will be 
exterminated on the server and there will be no way left to restore his 
data again.<br />
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While on the other hand, paying the required fee doesn’t guarantee 
that your infected data will be decrypted and restored to you. So 
concisely, if you’re infected by CryptoLocker, you’re totally screwed.<br />

The attacks of CryptoLocker could come from various distinct sources,
 including USB drives, social networks, and spam e-mails etcetera.<br />

In one strategy, it disguises itself as a genuine email attachment 
that asks the user to click on a zip file. It also spreads as an e-mail 
attachment claiming that there had been a problem clearing a cheque, and
 clicking the associated link downloads a Trojan called Gameover Zeus, 
which in turn installs Cryptolocker onto the victim’s PC.<br />

Ever since CryptoLocker surfaces on the Internet, there have been 
diverse incidents where organizations and professionals have become the 
prey, and have paid a ransom to revive their sensitive data.<br />

Dell Secureworks had said that, between 200,000 to 250,000 computers 
had been infected by CryptoLocker so far. It is essentially well-known 
because of it use of robust encryption, a countdown timer and an 
entangled monetization scheme.<br />

Security researchers have been digging hard to break the CryptoLocker
 Trojan, on the side note; one of the most efficient ways to dwindle the
 influence of CryptoLocker is to abstain from reading emails from an 
unfamiliar sender, or by creating routinely backups of your personal and
 sensitive data.<br />

One other way is to keep your Antivirus up-to-date; It is always a 
good idea to pay few bucks to buy the premium Antivirus service, than 
installing the Free trial versions.</div>

Cryptolocker: The Most Destructive and Rapidly Growing Trojan Yet!

If by any chance you are in the cyber security, then you must have overheard about this freshest and most fierce piece of computer Trojan...

3:10:00 PM

TradeKey Launches Pakistan Specific B2B Portal: TradeKey.com.pk

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Trend of Entrepreneurship is rising dramatically in Pakistan. SMEs 
usually face two major problems: one is the lack of investment and the 
other is obstacles in market accessibility.<br />

Entrepreneurs usually have the idea and energy but not the experience
 to penetrate in the market and sell their product. Moreover, when 
Pakistani manufacturers and suppliers sell their products only in 
Pakistan, sometimes they conclude that Pakistan is a small market and 
they need to expand their business and explore new dimensions.<br />

To give special attention to SMEs of Pakistan and to promote Pakistani products worldwide, TradeKey.com — the world’s 2<sup>nd</sup> largest B2B marketplace – announced the launch of Pakistan specific portal TradeKey.com.pk.<br />

Tradekey.com has more than 7 million registered members from over 240
 countries among which 194,778 are Pakistani manufacturers & 
suppliers. The core objective of launching Tradekey.com.PK is to design a
 platform where Pakistani SMEs can promote their products by making the 
most of TradeKey expertise in the international market.<br />
Pakistani manufacturers and Suppliers especially SMEs, with the help 
of this platform can explore new markets for their products without 
spending a lot of money. Getting new Buyers or buying leads without even
 visiting a country and participating in a tradeshow abroad means that 
international trade is becoming easier and economical for Pakistani 
Traders.<br />

To start over, TradeKey.com.pk is a B2B marketplace; a B2B 
marketplace is an acronym used for the portal designed to connect 
sellers and buyers. A B2B marketplace entertains its users by displaying
 their products in the relevant category and bringing potential 
customers from all over the world to explore these product which results
 in enquiries for the products listed in that marketplace.<br />

Furthermore, TradeKey.com.pk is facilitating the local SMEs to have 
their own product-based websites apart from signing up at the website 
free. Along with many other facilities they are providing to promote 
Pakistani companies and Pakistani products globally, they also have 
launched b2b chatting software that is installed at the website so that 
the website owner can connect with the visitor present on the website 
and facilitate the visitor effectively.<br />

With the launch of TradeKey.com.pk, SMEs from Pakistan will get key 
account managers who will act as the consultant and will support the 
member in finding new buyers and makes sure that the whole communication
 & negotiation process goes smoothly, hence helps in closing orders 
which results in increased sales.<br />

Pakistani Manufacturers or Suppliers with little or no experience of 
international trade can now export their products all over the world 
with minimum risk. Hence, Pakistani SMEs, Manufacturers, Suppliers have 
this wonderful opportunity to use Tradekey.com.Pk to transform into 
global enterprise with the help of the expertise and resources of 
Tradekey.com.</div>

TradeKey Launches Pakistan Specific B2B Portal: TradeKey.com.pk

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Bitcoin for Starters: A 21st Century Currency

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Bitcoin is all the craze in the world right now. What is it, why has 
it gone on to become so popular in the last month alone and why should 
you pay attention? This is all what this post is about. Keep reading!<br />

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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The start of the currency</span></h4>
Bitcoin, as you might’ve known, is the digital currency (or 
cryptocurrency) for the 21st century. It’s nothing physical, you can’t 
see it, you can’t touch it but it’s there.<br />

But before you start, keep in mind that Bitcoin is a complex product.
 The concepts of cryptocurrencies in general are deep and abstract, and 
understanding how and why Bitcoin works requires a fair degree of 
technological knowledge. If I may speak frankly, Bitcoin is not 
everyone’s subject.<br />

To put the idea in simpler words, Bitcoin is an alternative (digital)
 currency that can be paid for goods and services much like conventional
 currencies. You can transfer Bitcoins to other users and vice versa to 
maintain your financial account.<br />

It was started in early 2009 by an unknown person under the name of 
Satoshi Nakamoto. No one knows for sure who this person might be or 
whether there is a whole group of people operating under this name.<br />

In around-2010, he transferred all the Bitcoin-related property to 
Princeton University graduate, Gavin Andresen. Interestingly, Andresen 
has himself communicated with Nakamoto only via emails or web forums. 
Still, the amount of Bitcoins owned by Nakamoto are estimated to be 
around a million so he’s a billionaire in dollars regardless of his 
identity.<br />

The currency isn’t dependent on a bank or any other source. Its value
 depends on the amount of interest and support it garners, as simple as 
that.<br />

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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Some Facts</span></h4>
Bitcoin is divided into units, just like any other currency in the world. The smallest unit is just 0.00000001th of a Bitcoin.<br />

Only 21 million Bitcoins will ever be created to avoid inflation. 
Around 12 million Bitcoins are already in existence today, with their 
publishing rate of 25 Bitcoins per 10 minutes slowing down until that 
golden 21 million figure is reached, which will happen around 2140.<br />

Around $30,000 value worth Bitcoins are spent everyday worldwide. The
 currency has a total market capitalization of more than $8 billion.<br />

Its value has jumped by 300,000 times since they came into existence,
 making the people who brought them in their infancy very rich. In fact,
 some guy from Florida brought 2 pizzas for 10,000 Bitcoins back in 
2010.<br />

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<span style="font-weight: bold;">How to Get Started with Bitcoin?</span></h4>
To start buying or selling bitcoins, the first thing you need to do 
as a new user is install a digital wallet on your computer or mobile 
device. The wallet is a free software and is quite similar to a personal
 finance software.<br />

The wallet maintains your balance on your device and encrypts that 
info. There are two keys given with any wallet: A private key and a 
public one. The private key is to be kept secret at all costs whereas a 
public key is like an address through which you carry out your 
transactions.<br />

This software is available on mobile, on a PC and as a web interface.
 Protecting it is necessary as once you lose it, your fortune is gone 
and will never come back which is why getting it installed on PC is the 
safest bet.<br />

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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Buying a Bitcoin</span></h4>
The value of each Bitcoin is worth around $650 and while that figure 
is on the rise, it is extremely volatile. “But how can I earn?”, you are
 asking by now. Here are a few ways.<br />
For one, there is the simple exchange from real-life money to 
Bitcoin. The rate fluctuates a lot but since Bitcoin’s value is mostly 
going up right now, this isn’t a very bad bet at all at virtually any 
cost. However, not all currencies are exchangeable to Bitcoin.<br />

Online exchanges which work in Pakistan are Mt. Gox, VirWox and 24change.<br />

If you can find a person who is willing, then you can also trade real-life money to Bitcoins. Websites such as <a href="http://www.bitcoinlocator.com/" target="_blank">www.bitcoinlocator.com</a> are especially helpful.<br />

Bitcoins can also be brought as a physical currency which comes in 
the shape of coins. These coins contain a piece of paper inside them 
containing a private key. This is a rather expensive way of getting 
Bitcoins so it certainly isn’t recommendable unless you want to “touch” 
the currency.<br />

Finally, there is mining, which is easily the hardest way to getting a
 Bitcoin. This is also the only way through which a Bitcoin comes into 
existence (at a rate of 25 bitcoins every 10 minutes as I’ve said 
before, this rate halves every four years).<br />

Miners use dedicated rigs with ASIC’s in “pools” along with other 
miners to solve complicated encryption functions. These are machines 
which are build just for the purpose and if you try to do that from a 
normal PC, you’re mad.<br />

This encrypted function gets more and more difficult to solve as time
 goes on, making the entire process slower and hence the amount of 
Bitcoins minted.<br />

Note: If you didn’t understand above 3 lines then trust me its not your fault. Its because mining Bitcoins is not for you.<br />

<h4>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Transactions and Usage</span></h4>
Bitcoin transactions generally take around 10 minutes to happen, 
after first confirmed in the block chain of the network. This makes sure
 that Bitcoins aren’t spent more than once but also means the usage is 
slow, an area through which its competitors are capitalizing. (In a few 
cases, this can also take up to an hour.)<br />

Transaction fees usually depend on the amount of data which is sent 
out during transactions. They’re usually as low as to be negligible but 
if you’re sending a large number of tiny amounts worth Bitcoins, they’ll
 be more.<br />

Bitcoin’s usage is increasing rapidly. In countries like Canada, you 
might even spot a Bitcoin ATM. Virgin Galactic now accepts Bitcoins for 
an outing to space while in the US, a guy recently spent a measly 91.4 
Bitcoins to buy a $100,000 Tesla Model S electric car. Now that’s a 
high-tech way to buy a high-tech ride.<br />

In our country, they’re virtually useless right now but investing in 
them doesn’t seem too bad an idea. They are on the way up, that’s for 
sure but still, investing your entire fortune into it isn’t something we
 would recommend right now.<br />

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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Advantages</span></h4>
<ul>
<li>Payments made easy: Bitcoin allows you to pay with a simple two step
 scan-and-pay. No need to sign up, swipe your card, type a PIN, or sign 
anything. All you need to receive Bitcoin payments is to display the QR 
code in your Bitcoin wallet app and let your friend scan your mobile, or
 touch the two phones together (using NFC radio technology).</li>
<li>Security and control over your money: Bitcoin transactions are 
secured by military grade cryptography. Nobody can charge you money or 
make a payment on your behalf.</li>
<li>Zero or low fees: Bitcoin allows you to send and receive payments at
 very low cost. Except for special cases like very small payments, there
 is no enforced fee.</li>
<li>Protect your identity: With Bitcoin, there is no credit card number 
that some malicious actor can collect in order to impersonate you. In 
fact, it is even possible to send a payment without revealing your 
identity, almost just like with physical money.</li>
</ul>
<h4>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Disadvantages:</span></h4>
<ul>
<li>The price of a Bitcoin is volatile, making it difficult to assess 
its real value and increasing the risk of losses for investors.</li>
<li>The relative anonymity of Bitcoin may encourage its use for illegal 
and illicit activities such as tax evasion, weapons procurement, 
gambling and circumvention of currency controls.</li>
<li>The fact that bitcoins exist primarily in digital form renders them vulnerable to loss.</li>
</ul>
<h4>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Other Cryptocurrencies</span></h4>
In case you think that you missed the oppurtunity to invest in 
Bitcoins when they were cheap, then things haven’t quite winded up just 
yet.<br />

There are a number of such currencies including Litecoin (market 
capitalization of $421 million, value $17), Ripple, Peercoin, Dogecoin 
and Nextcoin. They’re all cheap and virtually useless right now so 
investing in them might seem stupid but then again, Bitcoin was once in 
the same phase.<br />

<h4>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Future</span></h4>
Given its volatile nature, no one can say for sure whether this 
recent trend of (mostly) rocketing value will continue in the future but
 people should certainly take notice.<br />

Whether you want to be a part of the boom is up to you but we really 
hope it will not prove a bubble in the end. Placing your bet on 
something which loses half of its value overnight is a risky affair.</div>

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