Glow Sponsors 3rd Inter School & Inter Collegiate Games: ProPakistani

Glow Sponsors 3rd Inter School & Inter Collegiate Games
PKNIC to Giveaway 5,000 Free Domains for Local Language Content
Jazz Revises its SMS Plus Offer
Nokia Phones Get Official WordPress App
Huawei Confirms its Settlement with Warid [Official]
PTCL, to Boost Sales, Halves IPTV STB Price

Glow Sponsors 3rd Inter School & Inter Collegiate Games

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 10:19 AM PDT

Glow Sponsors 3rd Inter School & Inter Collegiate Games is a post from: ProPakistani

GLOW – a youth brand by Warid is sponsoring 3^rd Inter School and Inter collegiate games that was organized by Punjab Olympic Association.

The event took place this Monday at Punjab Stadium.

Inauguration was done by Sardar Zulfiqar Ali Khosa, Senior adviser to chief minister Punjab and Mr. Amer Aman, Head of Sales Warid Telecom.

The event was witnessed by over 5,000 people. The participation was made by over 225 schools and colleges from both private and government sector.

Glow sponsored this event to promote youth talent and to inculcate their interest in games. Warid has always been a forerunner in promoting such events and will continue to promote.

Following is the pictorial tour of the event!

PKNIC to Giveaway 5,000 Free Domains for Local Language Content

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 04:11 AM PDT

PKNIC to Giveaway 5,000 Free Domains for Local Language Content is a post from: ProPakistani

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and Pakistan Network Information Centre (PKNIC) have announced a joint initiative to launch local Internet content drive in the country.

Under the program, PKNIC would offer 5000 FREE domains for those who would develop Local Content websites in Urdu or any other local language.

PKNIC is the (ccTLD) operator for "pk domain". ccTLD stands for country code Top Level Domain which represents a country on the Internet.

Speaking at the occasion, Chairman PTA, Dr. Mohammed Yaseen said

This support has been offered in view of the importance linked with availability of local contents and applications for the future outlook of Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector of Pakistan.

He further said that this program will encourage and contribute towards enhancement of local contents followed by applications as this initiative is the first of its kind in the world.

Chairman PTA appreciated the efforts of PKNIC management for this important project. PKNIC management highly valued the necessary endorsement of Chairman PTA for the joint initiative.

We are in process of acquiring information on how to obtain free domain with PKNIC under local content drive.

Jazz Revises its SMS Plus Offer

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 02:24 AM PDT

Jazz Revises its SMS Plus Offer is a post from: ProPakistani

Mobilink has revised its SMS Plus offer by restricting its subscribers to send up to 250 SMS to any network in Pakistan from 7am to 7pm at a rate of Rs. 1.5 + Tax.

Earlier, with SMS Plus offer, Jazz subscribers could send 500 SMS from 12 AM to 12 PM for Rs. 2 plus tax.

Rest of offer details and service mechanics remain unchanged.

Subscription Process: Dial *106*1# on mobile screen and press send.

Status Inquiry: Dial *106*2# on mobile screen and press send.

Un-Subscription Process: Dial *106*4# on mobile screen and press send.

Tariff:

Terms:

Subha Sham SMS offer can be used to send SMS on any network in Pakistan
Free SMS can be used only during the time window mentioned above
At day end, customer would be automatically re-subscribed to the offer and the subscription fee would be deducted from his account. An SMS notification would also be sent to the customer at the time of re-subscription.
If the customer doesn't have sufficient balance at the time of automatic re-subscription, then he would be unsubscribed from the offer. An SMS notification would also be sent to the customer at the time of un-subscription. Customer can re-subscribe to the offer after recharging
This offer will be available to customers of all Jazz packages.
This is a limited time offer

Nokia Phones Get Official WordPress App

Posted: 01 Nov 2010 02:03 AM PDT

Nokia Phones Get Official WordPress App is a post from: ProPakistani

To remain in-tact with wordpress blogs, Nokia handset users were tired of trying out WordPress Applications for their Nokia smartphone.

Today, Automattic (the company behind WordPress) has announced its official application for Nokia Devices and is available is now live on the Nokia's Ovi Store for mobile apps.

Currently supported phones include N97 Mini and X6. Application Supports WordPress 2.7 or higher (WordPress.com and self-hosted both). It's not yet compatible with Symbian3 devices like the N8, C6, C7

WordPress of Nokia is said to be more advanced than WordPress for iOS, as the latter still lacks text formatting (i.e. bold, italicize, blockquotes, etc.) as well as support for WP.com stats.

Head over to the Ovi Store to download it if you're a Nokia user.

Huawei Confirms its Settlement with Warid [Official]

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 11:14 PM PDT

Huawei Confirms its Settlement with Warid [Official] is a post from: ProPakistani

Huawei's petition case for the winding up of Warid Telecom has entered a new phase in which the Parties have begun working towards an amicable settlement of the matter, said a statement issued by Huawei's PR firm.

Earlier the rumors of settlement between both the companies were denied by Huawei. But today, Huawei has said that negotiations are underway.

Huawei further said that there are significant steps still to be resolved and completed by Warid Telecom, but if these are expedited in a timely manner, the Parties believes there is a likelihood that the issue may be resolved in full.

Meanwhile, the hearing of the petitions have been adjourned to December 2, 2010, in the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench.

Huawei has sought the winding up of Warid Telecom over, as claimed by Huawei, Money owed by Warid in excess of US $ 100,000,000 (US Dollars One Hundred Million) and defaults on monthly payments for August and September 2010.

PTCL, to Boost Sales, Halves IPTV STB Price

Posted: 31 Oct 2010 10:37 PM PDT

PTCL, to Boost Sales, Halves IPTV STB Price is a post from: ProPakistani

PTCL is apparently struggling with sales of its vast range of services, including IPTV. This fact is reflected in their recent financial results as well.

In an effort to overcome the problem,to an extent, PTCL has now decided to cut down IPTV Set Top Box (STB) price by 50 percent.

So if you were thinking of buying IPTV services from PTCL and were reluctant due to its higher cost, then this is a good time to avail it.

PTCL IPTV STB Price:

50% reduction in Smart TV STB price (from PKR 9,995/- to PKR 4,999/-)
In case if you decide to pay STB's charges as monthly installment, then there is 50% reduction in that too (from PKR 500/- to PKR 250/- a month, recoverable over 24 months).
The offer is valid for new Sales, while all existing customers will stay on previous terms.
This is a limited time offer.

Triple Play Econo Package:

You can pay STB charges in two modes:

Option-A: One Time STB Price of PKR 4,999/-
Option-B: Monthly STB Installment (for 24 months) PKR 250/- (sum total Rs. 6000/-)

Monthly recurring IPTV Service charges (MRC): PKR 449/-

If you are paying STB Installments then Total Monthly Charges: PKR 699/- (250+449)

Video On Demand:

Option (a) Rs 25/- x No. of movies watched.
Option (b) Rs 300/- for unlimited movies*

*fair usage policy, 30 movies per month; every additional VOD will be charged at Rs 25/- per movie per 24 hour.

Smart TV (IPTV) is offered in Following Cities:

1.     Karachi
2.     Lahore
3.     Islamabad
4.     Rawalpindi
5.     Faisalabad
6.     Multan
7.     Peshawar
8.     Hyderabad
9.     Gugranwala
10.    Sargodha
11.    Sukkur
12.    Gujrat
13.    Jehlum
14.    Taxila
15.    Wah Cantt
16.    Abbottabad