ISLAMABAD: Telecom sector is one of the most potential sectors that remained important contributor to the national economy by depositing Rs 363 billion during the year 2012 and showed increase of 5.4 percent compared to last year.
ISLAMABAD: Telecom sector is one of the most potential sectors that remained important contributor to the national economy by depositing Rs 363 billion during the year 2012 and showed increase of 5.4 percent compared to last year.
In line with the teledensity the cellular sector also has the highest share in telecom revenue as during 2011 cellular revenue increased by 11 percent to reach Rs 262,761 million as compared to Rs 236, 047 million in the previous year. During the first two quarters of 2012, Rs 197,686 million worth of revenue has been generated by the telecom sector.
According to the report of Pakistan economic survey 2011-12, companies have invested more than US$ 12 billion in building of infrastructure and other projects in the last six years.
In 2011, the telecom sector invested US$ 495.8 million with the cellular mobile sector being the major contributor. In addition USF invested Rs 3.5 billion in the 2011.
The telecom sector made its higher contribution to the national exchequer in 2011 as almost Rs 117 billion deposited by the telecom companies showering 7% growing in 2011.
According the report, foreign direct investment (FDI) by the telecom companies is more than 30 percent of the total foreign direct investment in the country during last six years.
Owing to terrain/security situation companies were reluctant to invest further however in 2011 telecom sector attracted over US$ 79 million FDI in the country which is about 5 percent of the total FDI in Pakistan in 2011.
Despite all the factors the cellular industry managed to double its growth rate from the previous year and according to the World Economic Forum's Global Information Technology Report 2101-11 Pakistan ranks no 1 in the internet and telephony competition. The total of mobile subscriber reached 118.3 million at the end of 2012.
The mobile market over the years has come more stable due to intense competition. Market shares are now more balanced among the five operators with almost insignificant changes over the years. At the end of March 2012 Mobilink had a market share of 30.25 percent followed by Telenor with 24.80 percent and Ufone with 19.54 percent.
The auction of 3G license is expected that will bring more investment into the country and improved economic condition of the country would further encourage investors to bring the capital into the country.
Economic survey further revealed that teledensity in the country stood at 68.3 percent showing 6.7 percent growth as compared to the previous year. Since the mobile sector contributes over 95 percent to the total density of the country an increase in mobile penetration from 60.4 percent in 201-11 to64.9 percent in 2012-12 resulted into improvement of 4.3 percentage points in total density.
Fixed teledensity has been declining over the year due to mobile substitution and today it stands at 1.93 percent in 2011-12 as compared to 2.1 percent last year showing a decrease of 0.17 percent.
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Samsung enters gaming space backed by Gaikai - gamesindustry.biz
Samsung is to enter the video game business, offering a cloud gaming service streaming PC titles to TVs, with beta testing beginning this July.
The technology is provided by David Perry's Gaikai business and will offer games from big publishing companies already onboard with the visionary games delivery service.
The two companies have been working on the deal secretly for some time and were originally going to announce the partnership at E3 2013. But the absence of new home consoles from Sony and Microsoft has left a gap in the market for early adopters looking for high-end gaming experiences delivered easily to the living room.
"As the consoles are reset to a zero audience, it's a wonderful strategic move"
David Perry, Gaikai
"When you talk about Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo the conversation now has to include Samsung. This is their gaming solution," Perry told GamesIndustry International.
"We were supposed to launch at E3 2013 but we've bought it forward and managed to get it working much faster than expected," revealed Perry. "The timing could not be better. As the consoles are reset to a zero audience, it's a wonderful strategic move."
Owners of Samsung's high-range Smart TVs will receive on-screen beta invites this month. Although the service is current for TVs only, Samsung also manufactures a range of smartphones and tablets that could receive the service.
Any PC controller with a USB connection will work with the service, but Samsung will also be mailing out peripherals that it's chosen with the help of Gaikai.
"This is mass market," said Perry. "This isn't about trying to sell to someone who's already bought two consoles, this is trying to open up the market. And they can add any other devices at anytime of they want to."
According to Perry, electronics manufacturers are missing out on the success of the games business.
"You're making tablets, TVs, phones, but nothing participated in the biggest entertainment launch in history - Call of Duty. The movie Avatar works on everything you make, so you're supporting the movie business but it's the games business that's creating these monster hits. You want to get the real state-of-the-art games running on your devices in the best possible quality and the only way you're going to do that is through cloud gaming, there is no other way."
Samsung's smart TV range isn't cheap, but the company wants to target the early adopters who are ready to move on from current generation consoles and are not being catered to by Sony and Microsoft.
"Someone said recently that in 2013 the graphics on tablets are going to be as good as the Xbox 360. My point there is the Xbox 360 is six years old. You're telling me if I wait another 12 months I can be like it was six years ago? That's not what I want to play. I want to play today's hardware running the best new MMO or FPS on maximum settings, as good as the developer's can make it look."
Apple scores win in Motorola patent case - ZDNet Australia
Motorola now has only one patent left to assert in its ongoing infringement case with Apple.
US District Court Judge Richard Posner ruled in Apple's favour earlier this week, by dismissing Motorola's US Patent No. 6,175,559.
Described in tech terms as a "method for generating preamble sequences in a code division multiple access system", the patent was seen by Motorola as essential to the company's 3G (UMTS) standard, according to Foss Patents' blogger Florian Mueller.
But Apple had argued otherwise, and Posner has agreed that the patent should be thrown out. However, the removal doesn't come as a huge surprise.
To try to limit the confusing array of patents in the case, Posner has been slicing and dicing his way through, eliminating one after the other. Motorola is left with just one patent to assert at the trial, down from an initial six. Apple has four, but that's down from an initial 15, according to Mueller. And the judge may not be finished.
"Judge Posner isn't necessarily done winnowing," Mueller said. "There may be more to come. In Judge Posner's court, patents-in-suit are an endangered species."
Apple and Motorola have been hurling a string of patent infringement lawsuits against each other for some time. Motorola has claimed that Apple had infringed several of its wireless and smartphone technologies. Apple has alleged that Motorola has violated some of its key patents related to iOS devices.
The suit that Posner is handling was filed in the Northern District of Illinois, US.
Of course, the real battle is between Apple and Google, a conflict that was a sore point for the late Steve Jobs.
Posner recently ruled against Apple's request to keep details from Jobs' authorised biography out of court, finding that Jobs' "thermonuclear war" comment about Android was admissable.
The Apple leader was quoted by his biographer Walter Isaacson as declaring, "I'm going to destroy Android, because it's a stolen product. I'm willing to go thermonuclear war on this."
Apple and Motorola are set to take the case to trial in Chicago, Illinois this month.
Via CNET
Samsung Puts $500,000 Behind Its Secret Weapon Against Apple - The Business Insider
The South Korean company will soon announce that it joined the Linux Foundation at the highest level, Platinum. This gives Samsung a seat on the Linux Foundation's board.
Linux forms the basis for Google's Android operating system. But the Linux Foundation has also been building another mobile OS called Tizen.
No one really gives Tizen much notice—and for good reason. The world seems happy enough with iOS and Android. Even Windows Phone can't break that.
But Samsung is a big backer of Tizen. This is a step to try and crank it up.
"Having just recently [in Q1 2012] beat out Nokia to become the world's largest maker of mobile phones, this announcement also makes it clear how Samsung will now try to attack Apple's position with both the Linux-based Android and Tizen platforms," a Linux Foundation spokesperson told Business Insider.
In other words, Samsung wants to have more control so it can turn Tizen into a true alternative to Android, and, more importantly, an alternative to iOS.
As we've reported, Android seems to be losing the platform war to Apple. Samsung is not content to sit by and let that happen without a backup plan.
Remember the Linux Foundation taps into 800 companies and 8,000 developers, many of them zealots for Linux and the open source way. That's a big base of developers to help build another mobile OS and cool apps for it.
Platinum membership costs about $500,000. Only six other companies have joined the foundation at that level (IBM, Oracle, Intel, Fujitsu and Qualcomm Innovation Center).
Even Red Hat doesn't have a seat on the board.
UPDATE: This story originally published with the wrong membership fee. The correct amount is $500,000, not $500 million as we orginally stated. A big difference and we apologize for the error.
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