Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has formed a Committee headed by Member (Technical) PTA, Dr. Khawar Siddique Khokhar to analyze situation that arose after Mobilink’s outage on Sunday.

This was mentioned in a statement issued by the authority.

Statement said that DG (Enforcement), DG (Licensing) and DG (Law) at PTA are also part of this committee that is likely to prepare a report based on facts gathered during their visit to Mobilink’s office to formulate a way for better crisis management during any such events in future.

Mobilink’s in-house investigation on incident will also be made part of this report.

The Committee is deliberating further action on the issue from all technical and legal aspects and how such incidents can be prevented in future, said the statement.

According to Daily Times, Mobilink’s outage was also discussed in senate’s standing committee meeting for IT and Telecom. Paper said that committee has directed the regulator to take action against the company by imposing fine and/or arranging compensation for the customers.

We are not sure of any possible fine imposition on Mobilink, however, after our conversations with multiple PTA officials, it looks that Mobilink may end up paying something to each customer as a compensation – but again, there’s nothing decided so far at authority’s headquarter, its something that’s just on the PTA’s cards for now.

After this incident, and other relating fire eruptions in past, PTA is looking into its options to make sure that this doesn’t happen again. For this, according to our sources, authority may regulate to make it necessary for all operators to maintain backups of all core-infrastructure equipment, also termed as disaster recovery setup.

Ali Zafar, the renowned singer, song writer, actor, painter, also known as the Prince of Pop and the brand ambassador of Mobilink Jazz is releasing much awaited sufi album “Jhoom” today.

In his latest album, Ali explores his mystical side by touching upon Sufi and Semi-classical music.

Mobilink Jazz has sponsored Ali Zafar’s Jhoom and is carrying special promotional activities on its official facebook page. Along with, Mobilink has created a special page dedicated for the Jhoom: http://www.mobilinkgsm.com/jhoom/

According to Ali Zafar, Jhoom is a sufi album. He believes that Jhoom will take his music to another level.

“It’s different from anything I have ever done before. I think today’s music survives only for a month, and I believe that music should be timeless. I want to be remembered for my music.”, notes Ali Zafar

Our friends at KoomMuzone are following Ali Zafar’s Jhoom very keenly.

Download Jhoom Tones

You can download Caller Ring Back Tones for Jhoom Album with following codes

• Jhoom: 143308
• Allah Hu: 143774
• Dastan e Ishq: 143775
• Dastan e Ishq (Dhol Version): 143776
• Jaan e man: 143777
• Jab say dekha tujh ko: 143778
• Janey na: 143779
• Jee dhoondta hai: 143780
• Jhoom R&B: 143781
• Koi umeed: 143782
• Nahin Ray Nahin: 143783
• Yar Dhadi: 143784

Download Instructions

• Dial 230, Select Language, Press 3 and enter the code.
• Price: Rs 3.99 + tax / min, Rs 15 + tax / month

via=’KoolMuzone.com‘

We have seen cell phones being produced as evidences in very crucial historical cases, this time, it’s the Blackberry phones possessed by assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Recently, 2 Blackberry phones, belonging to Benazir Bhutto were handed over to the joint investigation team conducting an inquiry into her murder on Thursday, reported Express Tribune.

Today, the newspaper broke another news which claims that data from the blackberry has been retrieved by the investigation team which reveals that Benazir Bhutto was promised Prime Minister’s slot from highest authorities in both Pakistan and the United States that.

Paper claims that close to 60 e-mails, dozens of text messages and close to four hundred contact numbers have been retrieved from both the BlackBerry phones.

Express Tribune has produced few emails of Benazir Bhutto as following:

“Respected Prime Minister (Benazir Bhutto), the United States confirmed that a crucial message had been sent to intelligence agencies of Pakistan, specifically not to interfere in party affairs and stay away from the electoral process.  Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and director-general Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) have done a secret deal for your (Benazir Bhutto) premiership.

Congratulations Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and warm regards,” read an e-mail sent by a leading PPP leader on October 23, 2007, to Benazir Bhutto calling her “Respected Prime Minister”.

An email was sent by Benazir to Ron Suskind, an American journalist, some days prior to her assassination. The former prime minister, while referring to the then president of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf said that he wrote to his friend that he (Musharraf) gave her an alarming message:

“You (Benazir) should understand that your security is based on the state of relations between you and me (Benazir and Musharraf).”

In another e-mail, dated October 26, 2007, the slain PPP leader wrote a letter to her advisor in Washington DC, Mark Siegel, in which she expressed dissatisfaction over her security.

She wrote:

“Nothing will happen, just wanted you to know. If it does, in addition to the names in my letter to President Musharraf, I would hold Musharraf responsible.

I have been made to feel insecure by his minions and there is no way what is happening in terms of stopping me from taking private security or using tinted windows of four police mobiles to cover all sides could happen without him (Musharraf).”

Bhutto also sent an SMS message to Daphne Barak, a famous interviewer who often writes for Mail Online. In reply to an SMS message, Barak wrote:

“Bibi, you are going to Pakistan. It’s a trap for you now. But you are insisting to go back.”

via ‘ProPakistani.PK‘

Ufone today announced the launch of Blackberry Bold 9780 Smartphone for its subscribers.

BlackBerry Bold™ 9780 smartphone comes with the advanced BlackBerry® 6 OS. It is equipped with a 5 MP camera, grouped social feeds and so much more to excite U.

BlackBerry Bold™ 9780 Specifications:

• A faster interface and integrated social networking and email.
• 624 MHz processor
• 512MB installed memory, expandable to 32GB with micro SD card.
• Improved web browser.
• Wi-Fi connectivity.
• 5 megapixel camera.
• BlackBerry OS 6.
• 3G/HSDPA
• Wi-Fi 802.1 b/g with UMA
• Bluetooth 2.1 w/A2dp
• Gps with aGPS support
• Music player.
• QWERTY keyboard.
• Screen resolution of 480 x 360 pixels.
• Talk time 7 hours.
• Video player with recorder.

Price and Availability:

• Ufone is offering Blackberry Bold 9780 Smartphone for Rs. 45,000
• Blackberry Bold 9780 is available at all Ufone Service Centers

Which means, Ufone Uth customers can send 100,000 SMS to one Ufone number for Rs. 10 plus tax for one month.

Above equation seems pretty appealing, however, variables are increasing with every new offer coming from cellular companies.

With its current offer, Ufone is claiming that this is cheapest SMS rate in the world. Rightly so, however, this cheapest possible SMS could get the love juice from the whole world if it had come with a liberty of sending SMS from any Ufone number to anyone, on any network.

If you want to avail this offer, and are switching your number to Uth, then be informed, that there are daily charges of Rs. 1 per day with Ufone Uth Package. Here are complete details on Ufone Uth Package.

Here is what Ufone has to say about its claim:

These SMS rates are the lowest in the world. This is based on the SMS rates comparison given on the website of the cellular companies on 24th January, 2011.

For companies based outside Pakistan, the comparison is based on rates after conversion from Dollars to Rupees(as of 24th January, 2011). This comparison does not include packages based on location, time specific or packages with friends and family daily or monthly charges.

The charges do not include 19.5% FED and 10% Income Tax charges which will be charged as per the prevailing Pakistani law.

And just for a clue, anyone can beat Ufone’s this offer. Here are tips:

• Get a new package with daily line rent of Rs. 10

• Offer 1,000,000 (one million) SMS a month to one customer for this package and – Bang!

Never mind, Pakistani cellular users are now used to of such caps that come with mobile packages.

Here are interesting Facts, you may want to consider:

• Seconds in one month (60 x 60 x 24 x 30) : 2,592,000
• Time required to send one SMS: 7 seconds (on average – actual time may vary from 4 seconds to 12 seconds)
• Total possible outgoing SMS in one month: 370,285

Just for records, if you send back to back SMS for one whole month, you won’t be able to send more than 370,285 text messages in one month. Just to mention, this doesn’t include composing time or anything else, these stats are for back to back SMS.

How to Activate:

To activate this offer simply send your desired number to 604

Mechanism:

• To Add the number as FnF, SMS the FnF Number to 604
• To Edit existing FnF number, SMS the FnF Number to 9104
• To Query the FnF number, SMS ‘INFO’ to 9192
• To Remove/Deactivate FnF package, SMS ‘UNSUB’ to 8104
• 19.5% FED on usage and 10% withholding tax at recharge or bill applies

Terms & Conditions:

• This package is only available to Uth Package customers
• FnF Number can only be an On-Net number
• Only one On-Net number can be added as an FnF Number at any time
• Customers can update/edit their FnF number as many times as they want by sending the FnF number to 9104
• FnF update/Edit charges are Rs. 10+tax
• SMS to all other numbers will be charged as per the customer’s tariff plan
• Customer can also subscribe to the SMS Buckets along with FnF package
• FnF Package will have the highest priority in case of subscription to SMS buckets, that is no deductions from Bucket SMS would be made in case of SMS to the FnF number
• The FnF package is valid for 30 days from the time of the package activation
• Upon the expiry of the FnF package after 30 days, the package will be renewed automatically
• Unsubscription charges are Re. 1+tax
• Query Charges are Rs. 0.5+ tax
• All charges are exclusive of tax