Apple Sues HTC for Patent Infringement CUPERTINO, California—March 2, 2010—Apple® today filed a lawsuit against HTC for infringing on 20 Apple patents related to the iPhone’s user interface, underlying architecture and hardware. The lawsuit was filed concurrently with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) and in U.S. District Court in Delaware.

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Today WaridTel’s CEO Mr. Bashir Tahir announced publicly in a press release that WaridTel is not for sale. Since many months there was a rumor in the market that WaridTel is going to be sold to any of the existing mobile operator in Pakistan because of its low efficiency. Today the CEO of WaridTel denied this and further added that WaridTel is still looking forward for the expansion of its network throughout Pakistan.

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PTCL today launched a new offer during the basant season in the country to Cheer up the people of the country and spread happiness. PTCL has offered 50% discounted rates in the off-peak hours and on Sundays during the month of February. The offer is valid for all the on-Net calls and the nationwide calls on the PTCL network only.

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Telenor finally touched the executive market of Blackberry customers with the new handset, Blackberry Bold 9700 at a nominal rate of Rs.50,000 only. Telenor is currently giving this handset to their Persona Family customers only. Telenor is starting the sale of this handset from February 2010, but the booking is on so that you can get the handset at the start of this February.

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Telenor Easy Paisa one of the most unique and great idea introduced by the Telenor Pakistan to pay utility bills and transfer money to friends and family through mobile gain such an importance that CNN took interest in it and made a report on it. Telenor Pakistan is no doubt doing a lot of good things within this country. The best thing I liked about them is that in their every service they are taking care of the people more than them self.

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Pakistan Telecom Association (PTA) has released a report on all the mobile operators in Pakistan including Mobilink, Ufone, Telenor, WaridTel, CMPak (Zong). In this report PTA conducted a quality of service test on all the networks in different cities of Pakistan and with different aspects. After checking the report, I am still not able to figure out that which mobile service is the best in Pakistan. Ufone is covering the most areas in cities (average score of 98.84%). Whereas, Mobilink ranks on top in voice quality service (average score 2.32). On an overall average that I calculated, Mobilink is the best service in Pakistan with average score of 97.57% in area wise coverage, 97.8% in maintainability and 2.32/3.00 in voice quality. Following is the summary of the report.

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Pakistan Telecommunication Limited (PTCL) is playing unique and kind of new activities with their customers to attract them more for the landline phone usage. Since the boom of the mobile phone industry in the country people have started shifting to mobile networks and the usage of landline number is reducing by a great number. PTCL has now introduced a new attractive thing for their customers, but they are selling it on a huge price. PTCL Premium Platinum and Golden landline numbers.

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Mobilink today introduced Jazz Sim Lagao Offer for all those customers who have not used their mobilink jazz sim for outgoing or incoming calls or sms since November 8th, 2009. On putting their sim back they will be given 50free minutes initially and then 100minutes free will be given for next three months. Maximum of 100 free minutes will be given to the users.

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Zong (China Mobile) is slowly getting into the Pakistani mobile users market and is introducing new packages almost every month. Every month Zong has a new attractive package for it’s customers and gain attraction of alot of mobile users. Zong is not looking towards the corporate market now. So finally Zong launched the Blackberry services in Pakistan.

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Mobilink is getting back to it’s customers now. The pioneer GSM mobile phone company Mobilink is like a status symbol for people of Pakistan. Whoever is using Mobilink is considered as being a premium mobile user. Recently Mobilink is reshaping their package plans to maintain their reputation in the market. Mobilink introduced voice and sms bundle packages on their postpaid indigo packages.

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