Jazba brings Such Bari Baat Offer

After Jazz Easy Package, Mobilink is now offering hourly call rate between 11 PM to 5 PM next day it’s Jazba subscribers. Read on to know more details about call rates.
Tariff:

• Mobilink to Mobilink – FnF (11 pm – 5 pm): Rs. 1.80/hour(Call free after 2 min)
• Mobilink to Mobilink – FnF (5 pm – 11 pm): Rs. 0.45/30 sec
• Mobilink to Mobilink – Non FnF (11pm – 5 pm): Rs. 2.80/hour Call free after 2 min)
• Mobilink to Mobilink – Non FnF (5 pm – 11 pm): Rs. 0.70/30 sec
• Mobilink to other networks: Rs. 0.85/30 sec
• Offer Daily Fee: Rs. 2.00
• Package Daily Fee: Rs. 1.00

Note: All prices are exclusive of taxes
How to Subscribe:
For Jazba Customers: 1. Dial *105*1# on mobile screen and press send
For Non-Jazba Customers:

• Convert to Jazba through following process
  • Call 123 from Jazz connection.
  • Press 3 for package settings.
  • Press 0 for package selection
  • Select Jazba as your package
• Upon successful conversion
  • Dial *105*1# on mobile screen and press send

How to unsubscribe:
To un-subscribe from the offer dial *105*4#.

Shahbaz Sharif Debuts Social Media Career

Didn’t we tell you that political parties will start taking the social media seriously, one might argue that they were already into it but the importance and weight for social media after PTI’s Jalsa in Lahore has been like never before.
Keeping in line with the need of the time, Shahbaz Sharif, Chief Minister of Punjab and top leader of PML(N), has launched his official Facebook page himself in an event that was pictured and uploaded on the same page.
Along with Facebook, CM Punjab revisited his strategy for Twitter and Pring, a mobile social network. Fresh accounts, with newly established policy, were created to reach the audience on both the networks with maximum influence.
Update: As known to many Mr. Shahbaz was already using twitter, with plenty of following, hence he decided to go with old twitter account instead of using new ID with fresh start.
Clearly, the leadership is planning from the core to get the internet crowd moving with their political motives in coming months. They are hiring specialized individuals for the purpose who will manage their online identity with a positive approach.
Here are Mr. Sharif’s official pages:

• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/Sharif.Shehbaz
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/CMShehbaz
• Pring: http://www.pringit.com/ShehbazSharif/

PTCL Wins Global HR Excellence Award 2011

Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) has won the prestigious “2nd Global HR Excellence Award 2011” in recognition of its outstanding organizational performance in the telecom sector.
“This award is an acknowledgement of PTCL’s pioneering efforts undertaken to transform our HR policies and practices,” said PTCL Senior Executive Vice President Human Resource, Syed Mazhar Hussain on the occasion.
“We have won this award because of the tireless efforts of our HR team, which has demonstrated exceptional commitment towards elevating PTCL to new heights of success by overcoming atypical challenges”, he added.
Proffered by Global Media Links and Business Milestones, the Global HR Excellence Awards recognize leading organizations that have achieved excellence in the sphere of Human Resource and Organizational Development.
In the post-privatization period, PTCL’s organizational transformation has been spearheaded by the company’s HR Department, which has played an instrumental role in creating a new momentum and infusing vigor within the organization to bring about a paradigm shift in its organizational culture.
“The Global Excellence Award has increased PTCL’s visibility on Pakistan’s corporate horizon and enhanced its image vis-à-vis our employer branding,” said PTCL SEVP, Syed Mazhar Hussain.
The Award’s judges unanimously selected PTCL for this year’s honor in view of the fast-paced progression of its HR Department, and its exceptional achievements in successfully leading the company’s massive post-privatization transition by introducing HR best practices in a very short period of time.
“Starting with a major rationalization of headcount to introducing a merit culture whereby performance determines the annual salary increments to the employees, our HR department has been at the forefront of our organizational change,” said PTCL Executive Vice President Organizational Development, Shahzad Safdar Khan. “We now place a strong emphasis on the development of our human capital by providing them with numerous learning opportunities that are in sync with our corporate objectives.”
In recent years, PTCL has firmly established its reputation for redefining and realigning the industrial relations paradigm. In line with contemporary business requirements, it has led organizational development and employee welfare by successfully creating a win-win situation, both for the employees and the organization, to emerge as an employer of choice.

Zong Introduces Weekly Internet Package

After monthly, hourly and various other bundles – Zong today introduced a weekly internet GPRS bundle that will help customers to use GPRS while on the go without looking at their counters.
Keep reading to know the details:
Zong Weekly Internet Details:

• First time Subscription Charges: Rs. 10
• Weekly Charges: Rs. 35
• Flexi Minutes (Weekdays): 120 Minutes every day
• Flexi Minutes (Saturday & Sunday): 48 Hours
• Charges after Flexi minutes: Rs. 0.25 per minute

Note: GST and other taxes are not applicable on GPRS usage
What are Flexi Minutes:
Flexi minutes are basically the free minutes that you can use without paying anything (other than weekly charges). So if you use less than 120 minutes in a day then you won’t have to pay anything extra. Saturday and Sunday are flat free.
For instance if you have consumed 120 flexi minutes in one day – then you will be charged Rs. 0.25 per minute for rest of the day – however internet usage during Saturday and Sunday will remain free.
How to subscribe Zong Weekly Internet Package:

• Though USSD: Call the USSD *910#
• Through SMS: SMS “sub<space>weekly” to 906 for package subscription.
• Your subscription will be renewed automatically after 7 days.

How to unsubscribe Weekly Internet Package?

• SMS “unsub” to 909 to unsubscribe from this package
• Charges for sending sms to 909 are Rs. 5/sms.

PTCL Hints a Celco Buyout

Mr. Walid Irshaid, Chief Executive Office of PTCL has urged a cellular buyout from local market to handle falling margins in a competitive market with devolving tariffs.
“I don’t rule out an acquisition,” Chief Executive Officer Walid Irshaid said in an interview to Bloomberg. “We are not selling, we are buying.”
Mr. Irshaid was quoted as saying:

Pakistan cellular rates are the cheapest in the world. This can’t continue. This market has to consolidate, otherwise this will be a losing proposition for every operator.

This is not the first time that Mr. Irshaid has advocated consolidation in Pakistani market. He had expressed similar thoughts back in 2009 in a conference in Singapore when PTCL was in reported for being in talks with Warid for a buyout. However deal didn’t go through.
But its a difference time now – and appears that consolidation moves are pretty much over, particularly after Warid officially announced not to go for a merger/sellout.
However a lucrative business proposition can change investors mind at any given time. We aren’t aware of any such situation so far – but we will keep an eye to update you if and when any such thing happens.

Warid Sponsors Tombola Night

This year again Warid Telecom sponsored Islamabad Club’s Grand Tombola Night.
The event was attended by over 2500 people from all walks of life. Everyone enjoyed the evening thoroughly by playing the exciting game of Tombola.
Free Blackberry handsets and other prizes were given out to the winners by the Sponsor.

Sony to Acquire Ericsson’s Share in Sony Ericsson

Sony today announced that it will buyout Ericsson’s 50 percent stakes for USD 1.47 billion in Sony Ericsson to completely hold the the control of mobile handset manufacturing unit.
Sony Ericsson will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Sony and company has plans integrate it’s handsets/smartphones into Sony’s broad range of consumer electronics products including PCs, Laptops, TVs and Tablets.
Based out of Tokyo and Stockholm respectively, Sony and Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson announced the deal in a press release to end a partnership that was tabled back in 2001.
Ericsson President Hans Vestberg said in a release,

“Ten years ago when we formed the joint venture, thereby combining Sony’s consumer products knowledge with Ericsson’s telecommunication technology expertise, it was a perfect match to drive the development of feature phones.
Today we take an equally logical step as Sony acquires our stake in Sony Ericsson and makes it a part of its broad range of consumer devices. We will now enhance our focus on enabling connectivity for all devices, using our R&D and industry leading patent portfolio to realize a truly connected world.”

Sony Ericsson, the sixth largest mobile phone maker, has lately struggled to retain it’s market share in a competitive and innovative handset industry. Sony intended to take the lead in the partnership to compete with the rivals in getting back the user share.
Unlike Sony, Ericsson is more tending towards wireless network and infrastructure business and hence Sony made this a case to buy back all the shares in Sony Ericsson.
Sony Ericsson is headquartered in London and had 7,500 employees as of December 2010. Company has R&D sites in Beijing, Lund, Silicon Valley and Tokyo. Company has 11 percent market share in Android and 80 percent of it’s sales are Android based smartphones.