Archive for the ‘Engineering’ Category
A nation gripped in sheer frustration
Sunday, November 9, 2008 19:42 7 CommentsYou can party around the world with 240 odd people and then claim to have paid for them out of your own pocket while YOUR people die of hunger right under your nose. Yes, Mr. President! You have proved once again that you and your government are just not ready for governance of a country [...]
Final Year Project Proposal Approved!
Sunday, September 28, 2008 22:44 11 CommentsHere I am, sharing my Final year Project proposal with everyone. The project was approved on the 27th of September, 2008 by the FYP Committee at FAST-NU Karachi after much deliberations on how to treat study based projects.
Project Title:
Evolution of 2.5G Radio Access Networks towards the prospects of High Speed Packet Downlink Access (HSDPA)
Objective:
The objective [...]
Telecom round-up: PTCL, Mobilink and Worldcall
Saturday, August 16, 2008 16:52 4 CommentsIt’s raging on, the broadband evolution in Pakistan, especially wireless. With Wateen launching the world’s first country-wide deployment of WiMAX last year, an upcoming WiMAX boom was strongly felt in Pakistan.
And here we are, with Mobilink in line with their wireless broadband offering based on WiMAX. Also, PTCL’s smart tv has been launched this August. [...]
Mobile Numbers go from 7 to 8 digits from April 1!
Monday, March 31, 2008 12:22 2 CommentsThe Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has announced the migration of all 7 digit numbers to 8 digits, however, subscribers will still have to dial only the 11 digits.
An actual change in number will only effect CMPAK (PakTel), SCOM (Azad Jammu kashmir & Northern Area’s) which will both have a single digit change. Instaphone users will [...]
Ambient Networks: Seamless Switching!
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 23:13 3 CommentsA friend from Germany introduced me to an upcoming trend in the telecommunication industry, that of an Ambient Network. In an increasingly mobile world, we have a lot of networks around us. A network between two phones, a network between a phone and a computer, a network between two computers etc.
An Ambeint Network is basically [...]