Category: IT & Telecom

IT & Telecom

Cloudflare outage causes downtime for many sites and services globally

Many local and international sites and services are facing downtime due to an outage in Cloudflare network. According to them they are already aware of the issue and working to resolve. International services like Canva and millions more got affected. In Pakistan as well sites like dawn.com, propakistani.pk and thousands more got affected. It is a developing story, we will keep updating this article and will provide more updates. Cloudflare is a global infrastructure company which helps keep sites and services, fast, safe and secure. It is trusted by millions of other sites and services. It is used as defense against cyber attacks on sites, its defense of many site again distributed Danial of Service (DDos) attacks. It also provides, […]

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No taxes on cell phone card recharge till next order says chief justice

Chief Justice of Pakistan has increased the period of no tax deduction on mobile prepaid cards or recharge in any way. Mian Saqib Nisar had ordered earlier to not deduct any tax from mobile cards as the consumers will get 100% of the credit for 15 days. The mentioned time has been expired but the Chief Justice orders to continue it until the next order. The Chief Justice remarked that the deduction of tax was not for the limited time and it will continue until the further orders, plus he didn’t mention any specific time for the next orders.  Chief Justice said, “It was said that the decision to suspend tax deduction on mobile balance was for a limited time […]

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PTCL Launched 36Mbps CharJi Evo Wireless Internet but with unrealistic data limits

Recently PTCL have launched its next evo wireless device and claimed 36Mbps data transfer speed. Devices include normal EVO Dongle as well as Wifi cloud device to which different devices can connect using WiFi. Things are very much good till that point, after all we are getting unmatched wireless internet speed which none other have offered yet, but real problem arises when we look at data plans and their tariff which are as follows. They are offering two packages at the moment, both are available in Prepaid/Postpaid plans CharJi Gold – 50 GB Data Volume/Month – Charges: Rs. 3500/Month CharJi Chrome – 25 GB Data Volume/Month – Charges: Rs. 2000/Month After looking at two of these data planes anyone would […]

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No mobile service in Karachi on Sunday 20th July

Current government continues the tradition to suspend the mobile phone services on occasions of special importance. On Sunday Youm-e-Ali will be observed as its 21st of Ramadan. Current government have again came up with excuse of security threat and will be depriving people of Karachi from mobile phone service for whole day. Mobile services will be suspended in Karachi on Sunday at 4am in morning and will be resumed back on 11pm late night. Lately, governments in Pakistan have been unable to tackle security issues using affective intelligence and they resort to mobile service suspension to tackle a security threat, which is counter affective and results in lack of communication means for general public. Plus people get unable to make […]

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Pakistan finally gets 3G and 4G mobile technologies today

Today’s sun will rise with shining its rays on invisible waves of 2nd Generation GSM gsm. But by the time it will be setting, things will not be the same. By that time amongst five of Pakistani telecommunication operators three would have have 3G and 4G licenses. Which means they would be able to offer latest telephony and data services to their subscribers. In terms of telephone Third Generation (3G) and Fourth Generation (4G) technologies will make the voice much more crystal clear and would open new horizons like video and conference calling with great voice clarity. In terms of data now internet speeds over cell phones would break the barriers of old 15KB/s and will be increased by at […]