Babar Bhatti

#10. No cell phones made in Pakistan.
#09. Not much of Urdu services or local content.
#08. Driving + talking on mobile = Accidents …. And no one is doing anything about it.

Guest Post by Babar Bhatti
After many false starts mobile number portability (MNP) was implemented in Pakistan recently (March 23 to be precise). MNP allows users to switch mobile phone company while keeping their existing mobile number. MNP was one of the key items of Pakistan’s Mobile Cellular Policy of 2004.
The implementation of MNP was a [...]

Guest Post by Babar Bhatti
I discovered the book Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen and David Oliver Relin in my local library. Once I started reading it was hard to put it down.
The book is about a bohemian American mountain climber Greg Mortensen whose life was saved in a remote northern village of Pakistan [...]

Guest Post by Babar Bhatti
The overall consensus of industry analysts is that Pakistan is one of the countries with a huge untapped potential for telcom growth and an attractive investment environment. Recently Business Monitor International (BMI) ranked Pakistan as a key destination for telecom growth. The BMI rankings take into account a number of [...]

Guest Post by Babar Bhatti
With some luck the Pakistani Internet user base may get a long overdue and much deserved break. That is, if the recent bandwidth rate cuts proposed by PTA are implemented and that’s where the battle is. Here’s a bit of history of the PTA vs. PTCL bandwidth rates controversy.
PTA is [...]

By Babar Bhatti
Recently the telecom sector in Pakistan has attracted a lot of attention from international investors - and for the right reasons: it is one of the fastest growing sector with a huge potential market.
Looking at the billboards and media advertisements of mobile phones in Pakistan it is hard to believe that until a [...]