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Warid Introduces Shared LTE Plans and MiFi Devices with 105GBs of Free Data

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Warid Telecom has announced the launch of the industry’s first shared plans with its LTE MiFi today.</div>
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The MiFi device functions as a portable wireless router that can connect up to 10 smartphones, tablets or laptops, whereby users will have access to LTE speed internet on the go in all major cities around Pakistan.</div>
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Warid has said that MiFi devices are secure as no other device can access the network without authentication by the MiFi owner.</div>
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Not just that, the battery life of MiFi devices goes up to six hours adding to the customer’s convenience.<br />
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<b><i>Mifi Plans</i></b></div>
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An initial cost of Rs. 9,999 acquires the MiFi device with an LTE enabled SIM as well as an entitlement to 35GB worth of free internet every month for three months consecutively.</div>
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A further option of three plans is given in the range of 15-35GB priced between Rs. 1,500 and 3,000.</div>
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Mifi Smart: Rs. 1,500 — 15GB Monthly Limit</div>
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Mifi Extra: Rs. 2,000 — 20GB Monthly Limit</div>
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Mifi Smart: Rs. 3,000 — 35GB Monthly Limit</div>
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This offer available is for all Warid customers and can be opted for by using Warid’s online portal and logging in with your mobile number.</div>
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<b><i>Shared LTE Plans</i></b></div>
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Warid has become the first operator in Pakistan to introduce shared LTE plans, with which customers — both prepaid and postpaid — can choose up to two additional Warid numbers to share an internet plan and a common bill whenever and wherever they are.</div>
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Shared plans are applicable to both LTE device as well as MiFi device users.</div>
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As an example, if there’s is a customer and he has 35GB of monthly data limit then he can go to Warid’s online portal to add up to two additional numbers to share this quota of 35GBs and those two shared numbers won’t be charged anything for the internet.</div>
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Mr. Asim Ali, Director Pricing, Segments & VAS at Warid Telecom, while commenting on this industry-first said,</div>
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“We are committed to delivering the state-of-the-art technology that empowers our customers and makes their lives easier.Warid MiFi is designed to connect users to the mobile Internet with their own portable hotspot, so they can stay connected to the people and information important to them.”</div>
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Here are some images at the TVC shoot of Fowad Khan, the new brand ambassador of Warid LTE, following Shahid Afradi in their first TV commercial.</div>
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As per Fair Usage Policy, only 35GB/month can be used.</div>
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MiFi operates on Warid’s LTE network only.</div>
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Internet usage can be monitored through the web self-service portal</div>
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Mifi device broadcasts WiFi connectivity for a distance of up to 30 ft.</div>
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You will continue to access GPRS/EDGE services in areas where LTE coverage is not available.</div>
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For Prepaid Customers: Package change option is available on web self-service portal</div>
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For Postpaid Customers: Please call 321 or nearest Franchise/Business Center for further assistance.</div>
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Shared internet plans will be available on MiFi by default. Secondary connections can be managed through the web self-service portal</div>
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There can be a maximum of two secondary connections with a MiFi shared internet plan.</div>
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Shared devices can be added/modified/deleted from the web self-service portal</div>
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If you do not have a LTE compatible handset you can still share the data on a 2G secondary device as well as long as primary device is MiFi or a mobile with an activated LTE shared internet plan.</div>
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If your Primary internet data allowance is consumed, overage charging will apply to the MiFi device. A Secondary device will be switched to individual plan selected or default charging.</div>
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MiFi comes with built-in security features that ensure optimum security for your device. There is a unique Wifi key affixed to each device; used as the network connectivity key, compulsory for network authentication. No devices/users can access the device without proper network authentication.</div>
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Warid Introduces Shared LTE Plans and MiFi Devices with 105GBs of Free Data

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The high-tech secret hiding in New York City pay phones

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NEW YORK — Few New Yorkers, if any, would admit to liking pay phones. They're largely invisible, a ubiquitous background image on a street filled with distractions. Like any public resource in a city of 8.4 million, the phones carry connotations of filth, unreliability and inconvenience.
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"Most people don’t even notice these phones," Pete Izzo, Jr., one of the city's last pay-phone technicians tellsMashable as he repairs a phone at 13th Street and 4th Avenue late one Thursday evening.

But what most New Yorkers don't know is that these low-tech phones have something useful hidden inside: free Wi-Fi.

The city fitted 10 phones with free Wi-Fi in 2012 as part of a pilot program. Since then, the number of Wi-Fi-enabled phones has grown modestly. New Yorkers can now find free hotspots in 35 phones operated by Izzo's employer, CBS Outdoor. However, the company says it's poised to deploy as many as 5,000 hotspots.

CBS Outdoor is one of only a handful of private entities still operating pay phones in the city, and the industry is in dire straits with plummeting revenues. There were 25,000 phones a decade ago. Today, there are less than 12,000.

Operators have plastered the remaining phones with advertising, which produced the hoped-for financial results. But it left the larger question of what to do with the phones unanswered.

Enter the Internet, or at least some part of it.

"We see this primarily as a Wi-Fi franchise," says Peter Izzo Sr., a service operations executive at CBS Outdoor. "Every new structure will have Wi-Fi capability," he added, side-stepping the term "phone."

Through sponsorship, advertising and co-location with other Wi-Fi providers, Izzo hopes to monetize wireless Internet and rescue his industry. It's a fresh take on the antiquated pay phone, filled with obvious possibilities — and less-apparent perils.

Last month, BuzzFeed revealed that phones operated by Titan were potentially tracking users through the use of Bluetooth devices called "beacons."

Following the report, Titan agreed to pull its beacons at the request of City Hall, even though some feel that the threat to privacy may have been overblown.

But even if these companies operate under better security practices, they may be unlikely to solve one major issue of free public Wi-Fi. It’s notoriously attractive to identity thieves, which could become more of a threat as the number of free Wi-Fi networks increases.

Despite the obstacles, both Izzo and his son Pete Izzo, Jr. say they are optimistic about the future of their field, whether it includes phones or not. Izzo Jr.'s repair duties now include installing and maintaing Wi-Fi modems and routers hidden in the housing of old pay phone units.

"I don't see any other infrastructure in the world that could accommodate such a connective atmosphere," Izzo says, looking at a pile of discarded phones in his company's shop.

"To bring free Wi-Fi to millions of people is gonna really change the city."<br />
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Source: <a href="http://mashable.com/2014/11/06/new-york-city-pay-phones-wifi/" target="_blank">Mashable</a>

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TAITRA Throws the Spotlight on Taiwan's ICT Products at CES 2015

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The prestigious Computex d&i awards, executed by the Taiwan External Trade Development Council (TAITRA) in cooperation with the International Forum Design (iF), revisited Las Vegas, the United States for International CES. Las Vegas is the third stop on the d&i awards world tour following their unveiling at Computex Taipei. The award-winning products on display include designs from Qualcomm, Philips, HTC, and others.</div>
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Another TAITRA event at CES is the “Taiwan in Focus” press conference, promoting Taiwan’s ICT industry and the upcoming 2015 Computex. Held on the first day of the show, the press conference featured addresses from Director Moses Yen of the Taiwan Trade Center in Los Angeles and Director Jaime Chen from the Economic Division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles.</div>
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Also present were 11 Computex exhibitors and d&i award winners. The press conference drew scores of members of the media from Russia, Germany, Italy, Thailand, the United States, Japan, India, China, and Taiwan.</div>
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International CES opened this year on January 6<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span> and ran until the 9<span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span>. With wearables, smart homes and cars, the Internet of Things, and display technology as the focus, the show is expected to draw over 160,000 visitors. Gary Shapiro, President and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association, has called this year’s CES a “record-breaking event”.</div>
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The Consumer Electronics Association is the organizer of CES. Dr. Dieter Zetsche, chairman of the Board, Daimler AG and head of Mercedes-Benz Cars, and Boo-Keun Yoon, president of Samsung both gave preshow keynote speeches on Sunday. Dr. Zetsche discussed the development of autonomous driving. Yoon explored using the Internet of Things to create a fully connected world.</div>
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Taiwanese ICT companies generated a lot of buzz with the market release of new products. HTC released the HTC Desire 826, the newest in its HTC Desire flagship line. The HTC Desire 826 features its exclusive UltraPixel technology with both the front- and rear-facing camera, allowing users to up their selfie game even in dim lighting.</div>
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ASUS also launched three new products in one swoop, the ASUS Transformer Book Chi, the ZenFone 2, and the ZenFone Zoom. The ZenFone 2 is the first smartphone equipped with a 4GB RAM and will be available in March for $199. An ultrathin tablet with a detachable keyboard, the ASUS Transformer Book Chi challenges the established Macbook Air as the ultrabook of choice among consumers.</div>
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Following CES, the Computex d&i awards will advance to its next destination at Barcelona, Spain for Mobile World Congress. The world tour of major ICT trade shows is part of TAITRA’s efforts to offer maximum international exposure of the winners of the award, in turn generating greater global business opportunities.</div>

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Facebook Is Taking Steps To Becoming a Video Empire

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As online video heats up, Facebook is doubling down on its effort to capture a bigger share of viewers’ attention.</div>
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On Thursday, the company announced it had acquired <a href="http://www.quickfire.tv/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(203, 238, 250); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-shadow: rgb(203, 238, 250) 0px -4px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">QuickFire Networks</a>, a video startup that uses proprietary technology to support high-quality videos without eating up users’ bandwidth. Some of the team from the San Diego-based company will join Facebook as part of the terms of the acquisition, and QuickFire will eventually shutter its operations.</div>
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The news comes just a day after Facebook <a href="http://media.fb.com/2015/01/07/what-the-shift-to-video-means-for-creators/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(203, 238, 250); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-shadow: rgb(203, 238, 250) 0px -4px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">published</a> new data on its explosive growth in video. According to its <a href="http://media.fb.com/2015/01/07/what-the-shift-to-video-means-for-creators/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(203, 238, 250); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-shadow: rgb(203, 238, 250) 0px -4px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">press release</a>, the number of video posts per person are up 75 percent globally. In the U.S. more than half of daily Facebook users are watching at least one video per day. Since June 2014, the company says, Facebook has delivered more than 1 billion video views to users every day.</div>
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So why bother with QuickFire? It’s just another piece of the puzzle that fits in with Facebook’s grander video strategy. As the social network’s video ambitions continue to swell, it is getting serious about building out the necessary infrastructure that will allow video to scale.</div>
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<u><i>Battling for Your Hours</i></u></h3>
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                                 According to a cached version of QuickFire’s website, the company is a video transcoding service—in other words, a way to quickly encode videos for posting on the Web without compromising quality. For Facebook, this sort of technology appeals because it allows content creators to throw more things up on the site by shrinking upload times. When creators are happy, they tend to create a lot more for the platform, which is precisely what Facebook wants.</div>
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People are already sharing tons of videos on Facebook. But that may not be enough for the social network. According to a recent <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/27/business/media/facebook-offers-life-raft-but-publishers-are-wary.html?_r=0" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(203, 238, 250); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-shadow: rgb(203, 238, 250) 0px -4px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Exchange SSm 4i', Georgia, serif; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">New York Times</span> report</a>, the company is constantly looking for ways to coax publishers into having their content live inside Facebook, instead of linking to it. The company likely wants to do the same thing for video, where the competition for people’s attention in that space is fierce.</div>
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YouTube delivers more than 6 billion hours’ worth of content every month to viewers worldwide and is <a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/10/keep-stars-happy-youtube-may-let-pay-skip-ads/" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(203, 238, 250); border-bottom-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; box-shadow: rgb(203, 238, 250) 0px -4px 0px inset; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">working to promote its talent pool even more</a>. A host of other players—from IAC’s Vimeo to former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar’s Vessel—are gearing up to launch subscription video services. Add in all the hours users are spending on Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Instant Video, and that’s a lot of online time not spent on Facebook. The more Facebook can make itself a native video platform, the more of those hours it can get for itself.</div>

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