http://wiredpakistan.com all things tech in pakistan Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:45:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en One more Wimax competitor enters the market. Hopefully they'll function better than Wateen. Their press release is below, more later once details emerge. On the negative side, I was promised a trial Mobilink Wimax broadband connection sometime back in Jan, and a couple of months ago someone from Mobilink got ... http://wiredpakistan.com/2008/07/02/mobilink-launches-wimax/ I get asked this question frequently - What is the best ISP in Karachi? My recommendation to everyone these days is Maxcom. It's a Karachi only ISP at the time being, but has great service and prices. I've switched to Maxcom, was happy with CyberDSL, but Maxcom is much cheaper now, ... http://wiredpakistan.com/2008/04/22/internet-recommendation-for-karachi-april-2008/ A few days ago PKNIC, the registrar for .pk domains, terminated the domain name djuice.pk without informing it's owner, and transferred it to Telenor, who has a trademark by the same name. In another country they would have to contact you first, and would have probably bought it from you for ... http://wiredpakistan.com/2008/04/17/one-more-reason-to-avoid-pk-domains/ The cellphone is dead, long live the smartphone! In all fairness, despite the advent of the iphone and the many Windows mobile devices, the smartphone is not quite there yet. My old smartphone - a Nokia 6120 is taking a hike to greener pastures, so a new ... http://wiredpakistan.com/2008/04/03/what-smartphone-jan-march-2008-edition/ After three years of running pretty uneventfully, this has been a pretty bad month for the website! First, wiredpakistan got banned by the PTA, then a few hours back today it got hacked! Whoever it was, wiped out the entire database, and then... left. Didn't even bother to say anything. It ... http://wiredpakistan.com/2008/02/28/forums-hacked/ Numerous websites around the world reported earlier this week that Pakistan had blocked Youtube. This in itself is not news, as Pakistan regularly blocks websites, but what is interesting is the manner in which they blocked it - managing to take down Youtube for the entire world! <blockquote>The BBC News website's ... http://wiredpakistan.com/2008/02/25/pakistan-removed-youtube-from-the-entire-internet/ I run a popular travel website on Pakistan, offroadpakistan.com, along with a website on “all things tech” in Pakistan, wiredpakistan.com. They're both hosted on the same server, and on Feb 3rd, the PTA ordered them blocked. I contacted a couple of ISP’s, and found out from them that my websites ... http://wiredpakistan.com/2008/02/23/my-personal-brush-with-censorship/ Yes, and how! A study commissioned by the Ministry of Information Technology: I've copied the paper to this website: Broadband Penetration Study Pakistan Feb 2008. The link on the Ministry's website is so horrendously long that I didn't want to go near it! The gist of the paper ... http://wiredpakistan.com/2008/02/10/broadband-penetration-in-pakistan-is-pakistan-underserved/ This website is now on the PTA list of blocked websites, and is being blocked at the PIE servers, so you might not be able to access it from certain ISP's in Pakistan which are routed through PIE. Discussion is ongoing at the forums here. The possible reasons for censoring this ... http://wiredpakistan.com/2008/02/05/wiredpakistan-banned-in-pakistan-by-the-pta/ The PTA's annual report on the state of communications in Pakistan is available online here. Of interest is that the report says Wateen Telecom's Wimax network can support 1 million plus users, making it the largest Wimax deployment in the world - and that it is expected to launch at ... http://wiredpakistan.com/2007/11/22/pta-annual-report-2007/