February, 2014 | Info Pakistan

February 26, 2014IT & Telecom

Bandwidth Hungry Pakistani Cell Phone Subscribers Hope to get 3G & 4G Soon as Per Announced Schedule

Long ago I remember there was a time when most people in United States were on AMPS mobile phone networks (1st Generation Technology) and most of Pakistani people were already using 2nd Generation GSM technologies. This came as part of IT and Telecom revolution which was made possible by none other than Dr. Atta-ur-Rehman, Pakistan’s IT/Telecom Minister in Musharraf’s era. But as soon as that Atta-ur-Rehman irra gone away, things changed. A very well known regulatory authority “Pakistan Telecommunication Authority” was dragged into the politics in President Zardari’s era and in games of chairman swapping powered by political games Pakistan didn’t got the chance to get to next generation of telecom technologies. The countries which were once on 1st generation […]

February 20, 2014February 20, 2014Finance

Methods to Pay on Facebook from Pakistan

Its now many years that Pakistan banks are offering Debits and Specially credit cards which are mostly backed with global names like Visa or Master Card. Most of them can be used here in Pakistan on POS terminals, they do work online as well but there are huge limitations when people try to use these cards online. Specially with debit cards, no doubt they features Visa or Master Card logos but most of Pakistani bank except few exceptions don’t allow their usage online. The case of Credit Cards is bit different most Pakistani banks allow usage of their credit cards online but again there are limitation or bans from specific websites which would not accept a specific card from specific […]

February 14, 2014November 3, 2022Happenings

Comatose Shahzaib Bajwa’s family raises USD $46000 plus online in two days to save his life but they will need more

Shahzaib Bajwa is a bright Pakistani University student who happened to go to United States’s University of Wisconsin-Superior through to spend one semester there through a student exchange program between a local university and University of Wisconsin-Superior. In November he was traveling in car which was taking him to back to University from the city Minneapolis, car struck a deer and accident was so bad that Bajwa have got severe fractures on his face. He is also in comma ever since. He had travel insurance but amount is too small, also his visa is expiring on Feb 28th, 2014 and insurance company wants to spend this money on bringing back Shahzaib to Pakistan, also its heard that they are threatening […]

February 7, 2014February 7, 2014Finance

MCB Lite Backed by Prepaid Visa Card Gets Tremendous Response in Pakistan

MCB Lite is the service which MCB Bank of Pakistan have recently launched publicly. It is socially connected Mobile Payment solution which MCB bank claims is first of its kind in entire world. It not only makes transfer of Money easier between and socially connected group of friends, it also comes with Pakistan’s second Prepaid Visa Card after the UBL’s Wiz prepaid cards. MCB lite visa backed card holds plenty of good features which include ATM withdrawal, ATM Transfer, use at POS Terminals while purchasing stuff and most importantly online payments to app stores as well as other websites which accept payments through Visa. In fact for Pakistanis the best part is Online Payments and those all with full satisfaction […]