Is PTCL throttling one of its competitors through anticompetitive practices?
This isn’t the first time the state-owned company has done this. And this isn’t the first time they would get away with it
The govt wants your telco to finance your next smartphone if you can’t afford it. But how will it work?
Yes, the risks are high, but the key just might be the prospect of blocking all the defaulters’ SIMs across the networks, reasons Umar Saif; all the telcos still aren’t on board
Running out of options: The state of our telcos
Recent financial results indicate that the sector has reached a tipping point
Confusions galore as Rs 0.75 tax on calls sends telecom industry scrambling
When Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin announced that the government was imposing an additional tax of Rs0.75 on each call exceeding the 5...
Jazz failed to build Veon into the WeChat of Pakistan. That’s why it will succeed
CEO Aamir Ibrahim’s willingness to abandon his failures and invest in his successes suggests a strong path forward for the company
Huawei, postmodern China in microcosm
Coinciding with Deng Xiaoping’s inspired new modernization design to transform People’s Republic of China around 13 years post the Cultural Revolution turmoil,...
Interview: David-Dohyung Kim, Director, Global Brand Management
Huawei, constantly redefining the future of technology
Q: What has taken Huawei so long to become the brand it has? What is your...
Why ‘no profit’ still makes Zong happy
Faraz Ahmed, a resident of Anda Mor, North Karachi, wakes up at four every morning and sets off to his vendor’s home...
Aamir might not succeed in turning Veon into Pakistan’s WeChat. But what if he does?
When Government of Pakistan opened its telecoms market to private sector 13 years ago, the country saw a massive inflow of foreign...
Suspending people and businesses
On September 29, Muhammad Faisal, a full-time Uber driver in Karachi, as usual left home early, at six in the morning. Having...
Jazz going in for the kill
It is 6:30 on a Sunday (August 20) evening, a roadside vendor, using open cry method, lures half a dozen men to...
Pakistan, a strategic hub for Nokia
Twitteratti went haywire on June 20, 2017. It wasn’t about JIT probing the premier and his family for tax evasion nor was...
Is Qmobile’s iron grip beginning to slip away?
When it comes to hardware technology, one hardly finds a local brand as big as Qmobile. Regardless of which side of the...
Coming to Pakistan
In a dynamic smartphone market where it is hard to keep track after having attained success in the international smartphone market, Lenovo...