Geo News confirms that LHC has ordered PTA to lift ban on facebook. The ban on facebook prolonged for nearly two weeks after the popular social networking website was blocked nationwide in a row over blasphemy. Furthermore GEO states, facebook has assured not to conduct these kind of contests in future. Justice Ejaz Chaudhry of the ......
In a ceremony held at PTA Headquarters, Ericsson Pakistan and PTA signed a statement of interest for prospective Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) initiatives to be carried out by both organizations. Chairman PTA, Dr. Mohammed Yaseen and President Ericsson Pakistan (Pvt) Ltd, Mr. Mohsen Tavakol signed the statement. The statement of interest...
On the directives of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) for blocking Facebook in the country, all cellular companies froze Blackberry services until further notice. Although the PTA had blocked Facebook, the website was still accessible on Blackberry handsets as these services are routed through RIM servers. According to sources, the...
The Ministry of Information and Technology (MoIT) has asked the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to follow rules and regulations and abide by law for issuing licences to the Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO) at a just fee. The News has learnt from reliable sources that the MoIT had also sought the opinion of the Law Ministry ......
The Pakistan Telecom Authority is mulling rationalising the cost mechanism of toll-free numbers through calls made by mobile phones services. The regulator body has sought stakeholders’ opinion in order to establish a framework pricing mechanism on calls made to local and international toll-free numbers through mobile telephony services of various...
The total mobile subscribers in Pakistan will increase up to 134.8 million in 2014 and it might touch 100 million by 2010 end. Research and Market, the world’s largest market research resource, has recently published forecast reports of next five years for mobile operators of Pakistan and other countries. It says that Mobilink will continue to ......
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has joined hands with the State Bank of Pakistan to produce an all – inclusive mobile banking regulatory frame work which is to be finalised very soon, Dr. Muhammad Yaseen, Chairman Pakistan Telecom Authority said. He said this while addressing as the Chief Guest to the 3rd International MCB Mobile Commerce Conference-2010...
Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly has directed Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to lodge First Investigation Report (FIR) against Directors of 4 telecom companies within 48 hours for stealing tax worth Rs. 320 million in fiscal year of 2006-07. The committee met here on Wednesday under chairmanship of Opposition leader in the National...
As already anticipated, PTA was hiring developing bodies for the Urdu version of its website. Now, Advisor to Prime Minister on IT&T Sardar Latif Khosa inaugurated the PTA website in Urdu language. The urdu version of the website has been launched to facilitate the general public and telecom users who cannot follow English language. Addressing...
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has asked Wireless Local Loop licencees to roll out their networks in the allocated regions until March 20 in order to avoid their licenses cancelled. The regulator authority has ordered two WLL license holders, Super dialogue and Metroltel, recently to establish their obligatory infrastructure in the...
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has intended to revise upward the annual license fees of radio-based services for commercial users in order to streamline the efficient utilisation of available spectrums. The telecom watchdog has sought consultation of the stakeholders mainly the operators in order to implement new frequency spectrum charges...
The 3rd Global Telecommunication Congress 2010, TeleCON 2010, with a special emphasis on taking Pakistan to the next level of technology frontiers is being organised on April 24. Under the patronage of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), TeleCON-2010 is the third in a successful series of Telecom conferences designed to assemble the industry-specialists,...
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has said it received 13,325 complaints against telecom operators of the country during 2008-09. Majority of the complaints were against cellphone operators since they have the biggest share in terms of subscribers in the telecommunication industry. The PTA, in its annual report for 2008-09, said 7,479 complaints...
According to a report issued by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the teledensity in Pakistan till November 2009 was observed 62.9%. The statistics show that the growth in the telecommunication sector is making a notable contribution in the country’s economy. The current Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Pakistan is worth US$168 billion and...
Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has formulated two sets of key performance indicators (KPIs) to improve and monitor the quality of service (QoS) of ‘Fixed Broadband’ and ‘General Packet Radio Service/ Enhanced Data rate for GSM Evolution EDGE’ networks. The objective of introducing these KPIs is to create transparency and set monitor-able...
