Babar Bhatti at TelecomPK and Tee Emm both covered Telecon 2008 that was held in Karachi just recently.

One of the talks, made by Mobilink CEO Zohair Khaliq was noted by them in their reviews. Particularly interesting was this information from Babar:

Consider the recent presentation by Zouhair Khaliq, CEO of Mobilink at TeleCON 2008 event in Karachi. The title of his presentation was Mobilizing Social Change and he talked about the recent launch of Mobilink Foundation.

Tee Emm was not impressed by the corporate brochure readout by Zouhair. However Bilal Mughal thought that there were positive aspects in Zouhair’s presentation. He writes this at Telecom Grid Pakistan:

Industry revenues are based on these mainstream factors and eliminating poverty is the heartbeat of all the problem whether it comes to you in the form of purchasing power or uplifitng the life trends from one consumer sect to another (higher). These things grow to be a central part of your company plans especially in our GDP environment and rotating them around different conferences provides with the direction to other participants to target the source issue of the market because at the end of the day if I sell dialup connection I would not want to sell at 2Rs if I’m selling at 5 today and you can only do that by increasing the consumer power at various levels and keeping it stable.

While I wont debate the validity of that presentation (since I wasnt present) but I’ll be sharing some excerpts form the U.N. Foundation and Vodafone report on the same topic which has several interesting case studies. Stay tuned!

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