According to Bangladesh Telecommunication and Regulatory Commission (BTRC), Bangladesh finished 2008 with a mobile subscriber base of 44.6 million by adding 10.27 million subscribers in the year, at a growth rate of 30% compared to the 62% growth recorded in 2007. According to statistics revealed, Grameenphone lead the market by adding 4.51 million in 2008, taking its total subscriber base to 20.99 million at 2008-end, followed by Banglalink which added 3.25 million subscribers and AKTEL adding 1.8 million to reach a subscriber base of 10.33 million and 8.20 million, respectively.

The new entrant to the market, Warid Telecom ended 2008 with a subscriber base of 2.33 million a step further of CityCell and Teletalk, who stood at a subscriber base of 1.81 million and 980,000 respectively.

Bangladesh’s mobile network operators finished 2008 with a combined total of 44.6 million subscribers after adding 10.27 million customers in the year, a growth rate of 30% compared to the 62% growth recorded in 2007, according to figures released by the Bangladesh Telecommunication and Regulatory Commission (BTRC). According to the watchdog’s statistics, market leader GrameenPhone added 4.51 million customers in 2008 to take its total to 20.99 million at end-December, while nearest rival Banglalink added 3.25 million users and AKTEL 1.8 million to reach total subscriber bases of 10.33 million and 8.20 million, respectively. The market’s most recent entrant Warid Telecom ended the year with 2.33 million customers, ahead of CityCell with 1.81 million, and state-run Teletalk with 980,000 subscribers. The number of active mobile phone users dipped on a monthly basis in September for the first time, mostly attributable to the regulator’s crackdown on unregistered SIM cards. The operators blamed the wider slowdown in subscriber growth on the economic downturn and increased mobile connection fees. The BTRC said the country’s total active users rose by 680,000 in the month of December.

What a great picture what a stupid watermark

Hello readers, admirerers, viewers, crtics, and theives. Yes that is true theives are everywhere.  I get numerous emails about the new stupid looking watermarks that i have introduced on my photos personally i also don’t like them but i am learning to live with them.

As television and advertising industries are growing in Pakistan like hell, they have become one of the most profitable business in Pakistan. But in same time they are not following ethics they don’t show mercy stealing photos from internet. This has been observed incase of Geo, Ary, Vibe and Warid yes top business tycoons in Pakistan are stealing images for their advertisment and promos not to mention small advertising agencies here.

So to avoid any photo theft i have to watermark and downsize my photos this might be the reason i am bit safe from thieves to my knowledge.

I hope regulating authorities protect artists like me from thieves. Once a picture gets stolen and used in adverts or promo it becomes useless asset of the artist, he cannot sale it to anyone as corporates or companies require unpublished photos for their themes. If artist don’t sale his work he cannot expand in terms of equipment, creativity and of course he cannot earn his livings from the art ultimately artist has to leave the art even he don’t want to do so. This might be one of the reasons of downfall of art from Pakistan. Despite of making profit it is shame big companies exploit right of artist.

So kindly reject such theives in interest of arts in Pakistan.