For a country beset by recent natural disasters, political instability and a host of other economic and social problems, telecommunications in Pakistan has witnessed substantial growth over the past few years despite the odds. In an interview with BusinessWeek, a senior IT Minister has described the growth in Pakistan’s telecommunication industry as “an absolute revolution”. Deregulation, which had its humble beginnings in 2003, has led to privatization of Pakistan’s telecom industry and can be singled out as the factor that has driven growth in this critical sector of the country’s economy.

In mid 2005, Pakistan government sold its 26% stake in the country’s top, fixed-line institution – Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) to the Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (Etisalat) to further strengthen the deregulation process. Such economic reforms are driving the telecom industry to new heights. Since 2003, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has awarded in excess of 200 mobile, fixed and long distance licenses to 50 companies. This has resulted in substantial increase in competition spanning a wide spectrum of telecom services and fuelled further by Etisalat’s controlling share of PTCL.

Telecom Industry watchers affirm that a major part of growth will be witnessed in mobile telephon Continue reading »

On February 17, 2009, Americans will enter the age of digital television — ready or not.

On that date, all full-power broadcast television stations will begin broadcasting only in digital, improving sound and picture quality as well as allowing for stations to offer multiple programming choices, called multicasting.

The government-mandated change will free up needed frequencies for public safety and new wireless communication offerings.

What’s the difference between analog and digital?

Since television was invented, stations have broadcast analog signals, or continuously varying radio waves. The familiar “snow” or ghosting of images is one problem with this way of sending broadcast signals.  Another issue is the limited bandwidth for an ever increasing number of television channels.

After the transition, broadcasts will be sent only via digital signals, which use a series of zeroes and ones to transmit data just as a computer does. The result is clearer, more reliable picture and sound as well as the opportunity for more programming options and interactive features.

Because of how a digital signal transmits information, it has more room for additional data. So now television stations that once broadcast on one channel, such as channel 3, can now broadcast on several segments of that channel, for example: 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4. Each channel could offe Continue reading »

China Telecom was called Directorate General of Telecommunications?P?T?China at first. In 1995, it was registered the legal representative, from then on, separating enterprises from government management. In 1998, the post and telecommunications services separated, specializing in the telecommunications operation. In 1999, the services, satellite services and mobile services were separated out from China Telecom. In 2000, China Telecom was established officially.  

During 2001 to 2002, in order to break monopoly in the fixed telecommunications field, having been separated the mobile services, China Telecom was divided into the north and south part. In May, 2005, newly reformed China Telecom and China Netcom were established officially. The telecommunications companies in ten provinces, including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia of North China, Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang of Northeast China, Henan and Shandong, belonged to the north part of China Telecom. Others belonged to the south part of China Telecom.

China Netcom Group Corporation (Hong Kong) Limited was merged by the north part of China Telecom together with China Netcom and Jitong Network Communications Company Limited.

The south part of China Telecom maintained the name, possessing the name of China Telecom and the intangible assets. Chinese telecommunications market was gradually formed the competition patterns with Continue reading »

Based on the SOAP protocol the Cisco CUCM driver synchronizes users and VoIP devices with the Cisco Unified Communication Manager. Users will be created, modified and deleted in the CUCM user directory. All line numbers of phone devices associated with users are synchronized with your central director.

CUCM is the authoritative data source for phone numbers. Therefore changes to the phone number in eDirectory will be overwritten by the CUCM driver. Vice versa eDirectory is the authoritative data source for surname, given name, email etc. so all changes made to these attributes in CUCM will be overwritten with the values in eDirectory. This way you benefit from a correct CUCM user directory and from current and accurate phone numbers in your eDirectory.

The driver offers a lot of free configurable parameters. You can define which container holds the users, you want to synchronize. You can choose how the driver will handle the deletion process of users in either CUCM or eDirectory. e.g. the driver can remove both objects, notify an administrator or just remove the association.

The driver has a very modular design and can be extended to any function the CUCM SOAP interface offers.

these are the benefits

• reduces the administrative costs of your VoIP solution

• accurate phone directory at all time

• current user information on your VoIP devices

• eliminates redundant or incorrect device- or userdata

• ensures business policies for your VoIP solution

• self provisioning of VoIP devices

not interested? i doubt it. but if you do, you can find lots of driver for your VoIP on the internet. VoIP Driver updates and driver download are available and worldwide just like usual computer drivers download links.