ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) The telecom industry’s performance has been seriously affected, as not a single policy directive has been issued by the Ministry of Information and Technology (MoIT) during the last one year. Sources in the telecom industry told The News that the people inducted by former secretary MoIT Farooq Awan,Read More →
Islamabad (MEDIA) Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) jointly conducted successful raids at Okara and Lahore and seized illegal gateway exchange. Grey Setup operational at Okara at 111, Millat Cold Store was successfully raided and thirty five Voice over internet Protocol (VoIP) Gateways along with supporting hardwareRead More →
ISLAMABAD (SPECIAL REPORT ) A big change in MOIT occurred as Federal Secretary Kamran Ali Quershi and additional secretary Ejaz Ali transferred to other ministries. Federal government has appointed Akhlaq Ahmed Tarar as new federal secretary for IT and Telecom whereas, Azmat Ali Ranjha has been given the portfolio ofRead More →
ISLAMABAD (SPECIAL REPORT ) The regulator—PTA— has been given 3- day deadline for placing a response mechanism in case of arising of any complaint of uploading of any blasphemous contents on websites. “We have developed IT solutions to block around 4000 URLs having blasphemous contents with the help of filtersRead More →
ISLAMABAD (SPECIAL REPORT ) Warid Telecom sales have been pushed to next month. Mobile companies are now pushing themselves away from the company since it has been discovered that Warid Telecom has considerable amount of loans and outstanding payments. Ufone and Zong has started negotiations with Warid over the recentRead More →
Islamabad (MEDIA) Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) jointly conducted two successful raids at Lahore and Karachi and seized illegal gateway exchanges. Grey Setup operational at Lahore area of Badami Bagh was successfully raided and four Voice over internet Protocol (VoIP) Gateways along with supporting hardware andRead More →
ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) In view of service problems faced by consumers, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has asked all the users of illegal jammers to remove the unauthorized devices immediately otherwise action will be initiated against violator as per Pakistan Telecom (Re-Organization) Act 1996. It has been repeatedly informed that jammer(s) installed inRead More →
LAHORE (MEDIA) Warid Telecom, leading innovator in Pakistan’s telecom industry, now offers its prepaid subscribers the lowest international call rates to Afghanistan. Warid Telecom subscribers can now make calls to landline and mobile numbers in Afghanistan for just 30 paisas per second. To avail this offer Warid subscribers have toRead More →
ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) The Supreme Court of Pakistan asked the finance secretary to submit a detailed report that how Rs. 62 billion were withdrawn from Universal Services Fund (USF) on Monday during hearing petition about PTA and other realted issues. A three-member bench of the Supreme Court, headed by Chief JusticeRead More →
ISLAMABAD (SPECIAL REPORT) Policy Directive of the Ministry of Information Technology & Telecom and all ensuing steps taken by Pta and the LDI Licensees do not fall within the purview of the Competition Act 2010 or jurisdiction of the Competition Commission of Pakistan (CCP). This is stance of Moitt reportsRead More →
ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) As news in telecom sector are spreading about telecoms group VimpelCom, which also owns Mobilink Pakistan, that it’s eyeing a bid for Warid Telecom, VimpelCom believes that in-market consolidation would be positive for Pakistan. A spokesperson for VimpelCom telecoms, responding to Daily Times’ query to this scribe declinedRead More →
ISLAMABAD (MEDIA) Mobilink has posted 5 percent overall increase in revenues in the second quarter of 2013. VimpelCom’s Q213 results claim that Mobilink’s mobile data revenues have gone up by 32 percent. Mobilink has also seen higher revenues coming in from the interconnect, VAS and other streams which remained aRead More →