Myanmar’s military rulers have shut down the country’s internet as thousands of people joined the largest rally yet against Monday’s coup. Myanmar, February 06, 2021: A near-total internet blackout is in effect with connectivity falling to 16% of ordinary levels, said the monitoring group NetBlocks Internet Observatory. In the main city, Yangon, crowds chanted “Military…
Karachi, March 05, 2020: A new GSMA study launched today shows that despite progress, the gender gap in mobile internet usage remains substantial, with over 300 million fewer women than men accessing the internet from a mobile device in low- and middle-income countries. Affordability remains the critical barrier to mobile ownership, while lower awareness, as…
Karachi, March 02, 2020: Khushhali Microfinance Bank Limited (KMBL) enters the digital world in 2020 with the launch of its Internet Banking website. Customers will now be able to conduct financial and non-financial transactions on the go as per banking industry practices. Khushhali’s Internet Banking website will now allow customers to access services like secure intrabank…
Karachi, February 18, 2020: K-Electric (KE) has successfully removed more than 800 meters of unauthorized cable TV and internet wires from its electricity poles in various parts of Gulshan-e-Iqbal. This is part of KE’s ongoing campaign to rid the city’s power infrastructure of encroachments which are not only unwarranted but also pose a severe public…
Karachi, August 21, 2019: Jazz, Pakistan’s leading digital communications company, has been conferred the Speedtest Awards™ by Ookla®, for the third consecutive time. The results were announced after Ookla compared user-initiated tests taken on the Speedtest iOS and Android mobile apps from all major mobile operators in Pakistan during Q1-Q2 2019. The award marks a major…