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Delegates’ Registration Open for TeleCON-2010

2 March 2010

Registration for Delegates to the 3RD Global Telecommunication Congress 2010 (TeleCON 2010) being held on April 24, 2010 in Lahore has been opened by the organizers. Prospective participants have been advised to visit the website: www.shamrockconferences.net and register early. The theme of the annual conference is “Taking Pakistan to the Next Level of Technology Frontiers” and [...]

Draft Amendments in The Telecom Consumers Protection Regulations, 2009

1 March 2010

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Regulation 6 to be re-worded as follows: “Operators may withdraw the provision of any Service, limited time offer packages for value added services from Consumers, provided that such withdrawal is approved by the Authority, if required and thirty (30) days prior notice is given to Consumers: Provided that the Operators shall inform Consumers through any of the following means: (i) [...]

PTA New Deadline For WLL Licensees

27 February 2010

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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has asked Wireless Local Loop licenses to roll out their networks in the allocated regions until March 20 in order to avoid their licenses canceled. The regulator authority has ordered two WLL license holders, Super dialogue and Metroltel, recently to establish their obligatory infrastructure in the licensed regions on the [...]

Special Program Launched For Information Communication Technologies (ICT) of Pakistan

24 February 2010

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Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has launched a special program to promote information and communication technologies (ICT) in Pakistan. In this context, was a ceremony at the headquarters of the PTA, Islamabad, which occurred in the IT adviser to the prime minister, Sardar Muhammad Latif Khan Khosa officially opened the PTA program, and the Parliamentary Secretary, [...]

PTA Monitoring Redressal of Consumers Problems Says PTA Chief

21 February 2010

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Chairman of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Dr. Mohammed Yaseen Sunday said the PTA was actively monitoring the redressal of consumers’ problems and guidelines and regulations were being issued to the operators whenever regulator, intervention was required.“It also ensures level-playing field for all telecom operators and smooth growth of the telecom industry. Strict monitoring of the [...]

Consultation Paper on Rationalization of Annual Frequency Spectrum Charges By PTA

21 February 2010

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This consultation document relates to PTA’s new approach towards setting the annual spectrum fee for radio based services. A drastic change in spectrum demand has been observed in Pakistan which needs associated price change like any other commodity in the world. The proposed changes are based on a thorough analysis of various frequency bands. Moreover, all [...]

PTA Achieved 95 Percent of Its Targets of 2009

13 February 2010

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Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA), in its annual meeting here on Friday, noted that it achieved 95 per cent of its targets and goals for the year 2009 and new ones for the year 2010. Chairman PTA Dr Mohammed Yaseen chaired the session while Member (Finance), Syed Nasrul Karim Ghaznavi, Member (Technical), Dr Khawar Siddique Khokhar, Director [...]

PTA Issues Show Cause Notice to PTCL on Poor Quality of Service

8 February 2010

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Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued Show Cause Notice to initiate proceedings against M/s PTCL on showing poor quality of service, based on the results of the joint Quality of Service (QoS) Survey conducted recently by PTA. PTA has given 30 days time to PTCL to submit the reply. Based on the outcome PTA, under [...]

CCP Unearths Cartelisation by Telecom Service Providers

6 February 2010

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The Competition Commission of Pakistan has unearthed a unique international case of alleged cartelisation by telecommunication service providers of cellphones, entering into an agreement to revise selling price of SIMs along with missed calls charges, violating Competition Ordinance. The scam has been unearthed on a tip off of an informer under the informer reward scheme. Sources [...]

Internet Protocol Version 6 Monitory Group Report By PTA

4 February 2010

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Internet Protocol (IP) addresses are unique numeric identifiers that are required by every device looking to communicate over the Internet. Today, most of the Internet is addressed with IP version 4 (IPv4) but IPv4 address space is running out due to increase popularity of IP‐based applications. The new version of Internet Protocol (IPv6) arrives not only [...]

Cellular Industry Continued Subscriber Growth in 2009

4 February 2010

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The telecommunications sector continued to show impressive growth in 2009 as teledensity climbed to 63.5 per cent, mainly led by the cellular industry. According to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority’s data, the cellular industry continued to show subscriber growth in 2009, albeit slower than previous years, as users grew by 9 per cent to a record of 97.6 [...]

Punjab Assebmly Banned Late Night Packages

3 February 2010

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Punjab Assembly today resolved to ban all the late night call packages across Punjab. After the strong arguments about how the late night packages were having the negative impact on the youth, the resolution was passed unanimously. It is worth mentioning here that almost all the cellular companies in Pakistan Mobilink, Telenor, Warid, Zong are offering [...]

PTA Issues ‘Telecom Security Guidelines’

28 January 2010

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All telecommunication and Internet operators and service providers should develop and practice a communication plan for dealing with network security events, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said on Wednesday. Stakeholders including network operators, service providers and equipment suppliers of telecommunication and Internet services should have the capabilities to analyse the source of malicious information traffic and [...]

What is Mobile Number Portability?

6 January 2010

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In Pakistan, an independent body – Pakistan MNP Database (PMD) was setup by Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA), with the specific purpose of managing the implementation of MNP. The PMD is set to have a 14 member dedicated staff, with the entire project costing Rs. 4-5 billion (US$66 million – US$82 million) with US$10 million –US$12 [...]

PTA Quality of Service (QoS) Parameters for Improving Fixed Broadband and Cellular Data Services

30 December 2009

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Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has formulated two sets of Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s) to improve and monitor the Quality of Service (QoS) of “Fixed Broadband” and “GPRS/EDGE” networks. The objective of introducing these KPIs is to create transparency and set monitor-able standards in fixed broadband and GPRS/EDGE services hence ensuring consumers’ satisfaction. Extensive consultations with the [...]