Pakistan broadband speed increases 42% in a year
From the Blog smartchoice [image: map-pakistan]As internet operators in Pakistan continue their push to expand their subscriber base and with the introduction of 3G/4G services, Pakistan’s year on year national average download speed has increased by 42% to 3.3 Mbps from 2.31 Mbps last year. This adds further weight to our previous post, in which we predicted broadband user base to grow further by 64% and is expected to cross 4 million subscribers by the end of this year (2014). It is also to be noted that Pakistan still has the LOWEST average download speed in the region with India clocking an average 6.0 Mbps, Bangladesh 6.7 Mbps and Nepal at 6.8 Mbps. Only Afghanistan is below in the index with 2.1 Mbps average download speed. A global “*Net Index*” prepared by Ookla, one of the world’s most popularpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Little Tibet
From the Blog odysseuslahori"Baltistan consists exclusively of rocks, streams and dried apricots" wrote Crowley, the mountaineer-magician. What he somehow missed was the curious juxtaposition of jagged snow peaks towering above the rippled sand dunes that march along the Indus River. The only other spot on the globe where this unusual combination of sand dunes and snow peaks can be found is the Chinese province of Xinjiang. To mediaeval Tibetans the Indus was the Lion River for they believed it rose in Singhi ka Bab, the Mouth of the Lion, somewhere on the western shores of Lake Mansarowar at the foot of sacred Mount Kailas in Western Tibet. And it truly is a lion of a river as it thunders northwest through Ladakh and Baltistan, roiling, crashing, pounding rock into sand, spewing forth clouds of mist, occpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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