PTA assured of full support of Ministry of IT&T by the Minister

Caretaker-Minister-for-IT-&-T-visits-PTA

Dr. Sania Nishtar, the Caretaker Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecom (IT&T), paid a visit to the headquarters of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) along with Additional Secretary, Member Law, Member IT of MoIT … [Read more...]

CCP hits PTCL for 8

Sikandar Naqi joins zong

Last week, the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) finally made its Order, on 30 April last, regarding the fate of the amounts charged on making international telephone calls to Pakistan. The CCP had the Pakistan Telecommunication Company … [Read more...]

ICH agreement annulled by CCP

ICH agreement annulled by CCP

The Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP) in a bench comprising Chairperson Ms. Rahat Kaunain Hassan, Member Dr. Joseph Wilson and Member Shehzad Ansar passed an order to annulled the International Clearing House (ICH) Agreement by the 14 LDI … [Read more...]

Slower growth of Telenor Pakistan with only 277,000 new customers in 1Q13

Telenor to suspend voice and SMS bundle offers on Eid

Telenor performed a bit sluggish this quarter as it was shown in its first quarter report for 2013 which it blames on low Indian sales and regulatory issues in Pakistan forcing Telenor to lower yearly guidance.Only 277,000 new customers were … [Read more...]

Pakistanis imported mobile phones of worth $1,428 million during 2007-12

Mobile phone series success

Around $ 4.377 billion has been spent by the last government in the past five years on telecom imports. The year 2007-08, which was considered the most promising year of the sector, alone accounted for a total import amount of $ 1.331 billion. In the … [Read more...]

PTA to deploy Femtocell for improved indoor coverage and high data rates

PTA finally decides to clean mobile SIMs database in actual

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) seems to be planning on deploying ‘Femtocell’ technology in order to improve indoor signal reception for voice and data access and also to provide wireless data at lower cost in Pakistan. PTA issued a … [Read more...]

YouTube temporarily restored by ISPs despite PTAs ban

youtube unblock in pakistasn

In a recent action by some of the Internet Service Providers (ISPs), services of the notorious video sharing website, YouTube were temporarily restored for their customers on Thursday and the site was said to have been accessible even on Friday. … [Read more...]

Number of cellular subscribers stabilize after a dip from Dec 12 to Jan 13

Cellular operators and PTA are responsible for illegal SIMs

The fall in numbers of cellular subscribers came to a halt as the number of cellular subscribers started increasing from January to February after showing a decrease of 1.8% (from November 2012 to January 2013) in terms of cellular telendensity. We … [Read more...]