In Mardan, about 800 users with DSL facility are facing inconvenience owing to suspension of the service in their city and its adjacent areas for the last two days. According to sources, the affected consumers of the service could not carry on their routine activities because of some major fault in the DSL facility. Besides the city, consumers belonging to Risal Pur, Takhtabai and even some parts of Punjab province were affected because...

Progress on government-sponsored Universal Service Fund (USF) broadband projects appears to be largely on track, while the work is still going on four major projects. PTCL has come out as a major recipient of this scheme as it has managed to jointly win all of the six contracts announced so far.  Results of two additional contracts that are expected to be announced in the next few months could see PTCL bow out of the order process on...

In a recent press release, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has announced the extension of its wireless broadband EVO service to 100 major cities in Pakistan. EVO is a 3G wireless technology that can give a download speed of up to 3.1 Mbps and 300 – 500 kbps on average . PTCL claims to cover 100 major cities of Pakistan for its EVO service including Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Quetta, Hyderabad, Chakwal, ...

Wi-Tribe is now among the established broadband service providers in Pakistan. But what we have recently observed is very slow DNS (Domain Name System) refreshing rate at Wi-Tribe’s end. We updated the nameservers of PakSpider almost 3 days back and it hasn’t been updated at Wi-Tribe end till now. However, all the other ISPs we checked, have updated and resolving the domain to new IP address. When we tried to ping pakspider.com from...

High speed internet, lower operational charges, quick connectivity, less disconnections and greater download speeds have made a flood of DSL connections in Pakistan. KARACHI: The Internet users have reached nearly four million in the country amid slight growth witnessed in the base of Direct Subscriber Line (DSL) by the end of March 2009, said Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA). The latest stats released by PTA shows that there...

Mostly signboards of Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Karachi and Lahore are nowadays presenting something different, covered with lush maroon printed Ads with some formal statements written on them like “ Online with no line”, “Your gateway to the unlimited information”, “instant access to every news” and most importantly on every board one bold lettered word is prominent that is WI-TRIBE. On seeing such Ads only one question flashes on...