PTCL would be shifting to 8 Digits from 7 Digits

Since some time now, it was being heard that PTCL woudl be shifting land line from 7 Digits to 8 digits to increase the pool of numbers available. Earlier in April and March they did the testing on some of the exhcnages in Karachi by adding '3' before the actual number and after the area code like '02134111111'. This is official now where Media and News Paper confirmed it. is now confirmed as reported by different media channels and news papers. Link for one of the news paper Business Recorder follows.

Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) would shift its fixed line numbering plan from 7 to 8 digit series as per the instructions of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. Initially migration from 7 series to 8 digit series would take place in Lahore and Karachi.

As per details, Digit “3″ will be added in all existing 7 digits numbers of Karachi and Lahore except the numbers starting from “9″. Digit “9″ will be added in all existing numbers starting from “9″. An important point to remember is the numbers are being added to existing numbers not area codes, with the exemption of army exchanges, which would remain same.

For the customer’s awareness and facilitation, the new series plan will run parallel to old one for a period of three months w.e.f. July 1, 2009 till September 30, 2009. The period from October 1, 2009 till December 30, 2009 will be covered by announcements which would be made in order to facilitate subscribers/ customers.

Quaid Pic No More Eligible In President & PM House (as per Zardari)

News came out this evening by Geo that Quaid-e-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah's picture is removed from PM and President House. Though Government is denying it but seems this picture is enough to tell the truth behind it:

In the picture above in President House,

It's Bilawals, Zardari (_____), Benazir and Z.A. Bhutto pic; Where is the founder of the Nation... A founder who was so in love with the cause that he sacrificed his whole life for the Indo Muslims and today Zardari the guy who even don't know the complete population of Pakistan.. who I am sure doesn't know from where Punjab starts and where it ends did this stuff.

I wonder where is My Quaid... wished there was an undo button in real life to make sure this guy does not come in presidency but this is real life and we all should work together to make sure that he does not do any thing which is bad for PAKISTAN.

Other then that who is Bilawal? even if he is Bhutto or not Bhutto who the hell (sorry) but seriously who is he to be there in president house even.. I saw another Pic where in world leader conference there was Bilawal sitting beside Zardari and Obama... I wonder is it a democracy or KingdomShip.

How ever; I just confirmed from Geo News they said Geo did announce this that they remove Quaid pic but government is "tardeeding it" denying it..

Well in the end.. the entire nation should vouch against this !!!

Pakistan T20 World Cup Champions and over loaded twitter too :)

Long awaited after 1992 World Cup.. Pakistan Army in Green did it again .. Long after Imran Khan today.. a young side of Pakistan led by Younis Khan did it again they got the T20 World Cup for Pakistan.

Bowling opened by Mohammed Aamer and Razzak and soon Pakistan was able to send 6 of the Sri Lankan batsmen back to pavillion but then there was a time when Sangakara and Matthews were stable on the wicket and was doing as much damage as possible .. but then a little delight ful bowling by Gul, Ajmal and Aamer and then Sri Lankans manage to score a total of 138/6 was a great fightback by Sangakara and Matthews; It was not easy to score this total in so much pressure...

Kamran Akmal and Shahzaib started the batting and at one time it seems that we gave the match to Sri Lankans :( It was not a bad start but was slow.. but then after the dismissal of Akmal boom came inn and u know what Boom Boom do .. he got good support by Shahzaib and Shoaib and finally on the 4th delivery of 19th over Afridi took leg bye on Malinga's delivery and Chanting's in the air.. firing accross the Pakistan.. Pakistan the cricket crazy nation won the T20 World Cup :)

The aka Blaggers the blogging community of Pakistan. Trend #PakCricket managed to bring the green rally on the 2nd top on hashtags.org after Iran Elections. Live commentary on Twitter was awesome as well :)

Regards,

Muneeb Iqbal

New Budget Seems to be Anti Telecom Budget in Pakistan

Recently Budget has been announced in Pakistan where 20 Paisa tax is imposed on each of the sms being sent by any mobile operator.

Which means the bundle offer by Zong CM pk, Telenor, Ufone and Mobilink will be of no use any more. 20 paisa is tax and then there will be the charges by the operator which can be around 7 to 9 Paisa which means cost for Mobile operator will be 29 Paisa.

Now i believe no more bundle offers will be offered in Pakistan :).

Though, good part is Sales Tax will be lowered to 19% and Sim Activation is slashed to half.

This all seems to be weired where Telecom Compalies spent millions in advertising their Bulk SMS campaigns but now it seems all will be sent to trash.

There should be a body to take action on all this or one day no fdi will see Pakistan as opportunity when it comes to Telecom business

Regards,

Muneeb

Sabse Technologies has acquired Jaxtr

HotMail Co-Founder and Telecom Serial Entrepreneur to Accelerate Market Penetration and Growth of Telephony Applications.

Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) June 8, 2009 -- SabSe Technologies, Inc. (www.SabSeBolo.com), a leading developer of value-added applications for telecom providers -- co-founded by HotMail co-founder Sabeer Bhatia, and proven serial entrepreneur Yogesh Patel -- today announced it has acquired jaxtr, the world's largest social communications company. Over the past several years, jaxtr has built a robust consumer service currently providing free and low-rate international calling to over ten million members around the globe.

Under the terms of the deal, SabSe will maintain and expand upon the jaxtr service, which will continue to operate under the jaxtr brand, alongside the company's existing SabSeBolo brand. SabSe's acquisition of jaxtr brings together two valuable consumer and business telecom applications now on a common platform. Jaxtr's large active user base will enable SabSe to accelerate deployment of its additional applications, and to leverage an instant audience for its innovative technology.

More details on http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20090608/bs_prweb/prweb2504374

Sillicon Valley lost a valuable asset in the shape of Rajeev Motwani

Tragic news spread all over Sillicon Valley. Rajeev Motwani, a prominent Silicon Valley angel investor and the Stanford professor perhaps best known for serving as the adviser for Larry Page and Sergey Brin during the formative years of Google, has passed away.

Rajeev was an ardent supporter of Silicon Valley startups, investing and mentoring many of them while continuing his research at Stanford University. With investments in companies that included PayPal and Google, he saw an overwhelming amount of success. And through it all he continued to give back to the community though his mentorship, investments, and his time at Stanford, where he continued to teach as recently as last semester.

He was:

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Database Group/InfoLab, and Foundations Group
Computer Science Department
Stanford University

Ph.D. 1988 (Computer Science, U.C. Berkeley)
B.Tech. 1983 (Computer Science, IIT Kanpur)

Ron Conway, a long time friend of Motwani, was visibly shaken.


I never knew Rajeev Sahab, never met him but it seems he was the GURU / pioneer in Technology world, sympathies go out to Rajeev’s family.

Marketing and Recession

A recession is a general slowdown in economic activity over a sustained period of time, or a business cycle contraction.

During these tough times businesses are trying to cut their marketing budget and trying to focus more on saving and spending this some where else, here they have to understand that this might adversly affect. Infact they should spend more on Marketing rather then cutting or saving.

Research have shown that businesses that do not decrease the budget get's response some times better then the Normal times.

Basically this is time to redesign your marketing plan, like if you were launching a new product better to delay it a little again depending upon your Market Segment. Just try to go for same way of marketing with less cost.. Do not Do not Do not lessen your budget until it's extremely necessary.

We cannot ignore the financial difficulties that our country and even whole world is facing today, but today you should understand the gravity of marketing during the recession, try to explore how to set a marketing budget during these times.

Iceland DID Numbers

We have Iceland DID numbers available on DIDx.net now!

Pricing starting from $7 a month.

Regards,

Muneeb