Posted on 25 March 2011 by PakBee - Total hits: 7,032
For those with limited needs and budget, PTCL is now offering “National Package”, a broadband DSL with 256 Kbps speed for Rs. 299 per month. With National package, you will be allowed to download 1 GB of data in one month.
Initial impression suggests that 1 GB cap with “National Package” is not going to impress customers, however, they may get fine with 256 Kbps speed.
Additional GBs are not allowed as well, which means you may face a blackout if you consume your data limit before time.
Note: Existing customer can also avail this package but they will have to pay one time charges of Rs.1500 as downgrade charges.
We had heard of upgrade charges so far, but being in Pakistan, expect any type of charges such as these downgrade charges with “National Package”. We fear someday companies might introduce “customer charges”
Below are the all PTCL Broadband packages now available for customer
Posted on 21 March 2011 by PakBee - Total hits: 6,902
PTCL has announced PTCL EVO Big Bonus Offer, that allows all new customers to enjoy free second month if they purchase PTCL EVO device today.
Who can avail the offer?
The promotion is valid for all new EVO customers except for customers making purchase on DayPass package.
All you have to do is buy a new EVO Connection and you get full value of your first month’s usage absolutely FREE the next month.
This is a limited time promotion.
Terms & conditions:
* This offer is valid on purchase of all new commercial EVO packages except Day-pass.
* Offer is not valid for Nitro and EVO Wifi cloud customers.
* Customers are not allowed to downgrade their package till they have used free balance
* Additional usage in Go, Lite & Wiz packages will be charged from bonus balance.
* Customer must connect to the internet within first 3 days of the 2nd month to be eligible to use free balance or it will expire.
* Customer is not allowed to downgrade their package during this offer but customer can upgrade the package, in which case customer has to load the additional balance required to subscribe to the upgraded package.
* In the Advance billing package, customer will be required to pay Rs.2000 advance bill. After first bill payment, the next month will be free.
* In Landline package, customer will be billed for first month; after payment of first bill 2nd month usage will be free.
Posted on 15 February 2011 by PakBee - Total hits: 3,472
wi-tribe has launched its WiMAX broadband services in Faisalabad, its 5th city of operations.
After launching services in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad & Rawalpindi, now the residents of Faisalabad can too enjoy broadband services from wi-tribe.
With an aim to enhance online access for both personal and business use, wi-tribe is focused towards expanding its quality-driven network, in line with a strategic plan to provide an affordable range of broadband services to more customers in all their cities of operation.
While talking about wi-tribe’s expansion in Pakistan, VP Sales & Marketing; Wahib Aslam said,
“We are really excited about introducing our services to Faisalabad and take this opportunity to invite the local community to join the tribe. We look forward to our customers benefiting from wi-tribe’s diverse package and promotion offerings, along with a superior broadband experience.
It is evident that any country’s literacy and GDP are significantly tied to online access, which will only improve the opportunities for wi-tribe’s community.”
wi-tribe’s planned expansion in Pakistan is proof of their commitment to contribute towards sustained growth in the country, with the belief that consumers are ready to embrace access to high-speed connectivity.
wi-tribe has launched its WiMAX broadband services in Faisalabad, its 5th city of operations.
After launching services in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad & Rawalpindi, now the residents of Faisalabad can too enjoy broadband services from wi-tribe.
With an aim to enhance online access for both personal and business use, wi-tribe is focused towards expanding its quality-driven network, in line with a strategic plan to provide an affordable range of broadband services to more customers in all their cities of operation.
While talking about wi-tribe’s expansion in Pakistan, VP Sales & Marketing; Wahib Aslam said,
“We are really excited about introducing our services to Faisalabad and take this opportunity to invite the local community to join the tribe. We look forward to our customers benefiting from wi-tribe’s diverse package and promotion offerings, along with a superior broadband experience.
It is evident that any country’s literacy and GDP are significantly tied to online access, which will only improve the opportunities for wi-tribe’s community.”
wi-tribe’s planned expansion in Pakistan is proof of their commitment to contribute towards sustained growth in the country, with the belief that consumers are ready to embrace access to high-speed connectivity.
Posted on 15 January 2011 by PakBee - Total hits: 15,208
How many servers does Facebook have? For some time now, the stock answer has been “more than 10,000 servers,” a number the company began using in April 2008. Facebook has continued to use that number, even as it has soared past 300 million users and dramatically expanded its data center space.
We now have an update: Facebook has 30,000 servers supporting its operations. That number comes from Jeff Rothschild, the vice president of technology at Facebook, who discussed the company’s infrastructure in a presentation last week at UC San Diego.
“Today we have somewhere in the neighborhood of 30,000 servers,” Rothschild said during the Q&A session following his talk, adding that the number ”will be different today than it was yesterday” because Facebook is adding capacity on a daily basis.
That places Facebook among the largest Internet companies that have publicly discussed their server counts, but still well behind hosting providers Rackspace, 1&1 Internet and OVH, which each house more than 50,000 servers in their data centers. See Who Has The Most Web Servers for more date on the largest infrastructures.
20,000 Servers In 18 Months
It also suggests that Facebook has added about 20,000 servers since early 2008, which explains why it borrowed $100 million in May 2008 to fund server purchases.
Rothschild also shared some huge numbers associated with Facebook’s photo storage operation, which now stores 80 billion images (20 billion images, each in four sizes). Rothschild said the real challenge isn’t storage, but delivery. ”We serve up 600,000 photos a second,” he said.
25 Terabytes of Log Data – Daily
The amount of log data amassed in Facebook’s operations is staggering. Rothschild said Facebook manages more than 25 terabytes of data per day in logging data, which he said was the equivalent of about 1,000 times the volume of mail delivered daily by the U.S. Postal Service.
Rothschild also discussed the effectiveness of the company’s engineering operations. Facebook currently has about 230 engineers on staff, who manage data for more than 300 million users. Rothschild said that having one engineer for more than 1 million active users has been a consistent historic ratio at Facebook. ”We believe engineers at Facebook have a dramatic impact.”
The 1-hour, 10-minute presentation discusses the company’s commitment to open source technologies and the importance of memcached and Hadoop in their operations.
Posted on 15 January 2011 by PakBee - Total hits: 5,351
Just a few tidbits of Facebook news to report here. Reuters is reporting that the social networking site paid a hefty $8.5 million to acquire the domain fb.com from the American Farm Bureau Federation. Last year, Facebook launched its revamped messaging service, offering its users facebook.com email address in the process. The alternate domain fb.com was purchased by the company for internal employee email addressing. The Farm Bureau now calls fb.org as its home.
In conjunction with this new messaging service, Facebook also announced a new profile layout designed to easily present and share more information with friends. For the past month, users have been able to voluntarily opt-in to the new design by visiting www.facebook.com/about/profile. Now, it seems as though the update will be pushed out to all users over the next several days, like it or not.
