Telecom News Bulletin

3G services in Pakistan bring about $1bn investment

Secretary cabinet division Abdur Rauf Chaudhry resting on Tuesday said 3G services would with any luck be available on the way to the Pakistani mobile fans by the ending of 2011 while it was predictable that the plan for public sale of 3G services licenses would almost immediately be accessible to the administration and Economic [...]

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3G Launch After Consultation From Stakeholders: Minister IT

“We are committed to take all possible measures for the growth of telecom sector of the country. All stakeholders of the industry will be taken on board before finalizing the policy for 3G broadband technology and after an extensive analysis and discussion, this technology will be launched in the ...

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MVNO Policy, A Shady Piece of Paper

May be PTA is not willing itself to make this model a success as the huge license fee will discourage the applicants or there may be some interested but favorite people who will allowed to take part in the business. Interesting to note here is that “Djuice” is the MVNO operator in Sweden which is owned by Telenor.

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PTA Promulgates “Protection from Spam, Unsolicited, Fraudulent and Obnoxious Communication Regulations, 2009″

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), has promulgated new "Protection from Spam, Unsolicited, Fraudulent and Obnoxious Communication Regulations, 2009" to protect the consumer interests as mandated under the Pakistan Telecommunication (Re organization) Act 1996. According to PTA, the objective of these regulations is to protect telecom consumers from spam, fraudulent, unsolicited and obnoxious communications including calls and SMS. These regulations required all the telecom operators to set up standard operating procedures (SOPs) for controlling spam, fraudulent, unsolicited and obnoxious communications, in accordance with the given time frame.

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IT & Telecom Delegation Meets Prime Minister

A delegation of telecommunication and IT industry called on Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani at the Prime Minister House Friday afternoon and apprised him of the problems being faced by them. Secretary Information Technology informed the Prime Minister that a committee has already been formed to look into their problems. The Prime Minister assured [...]

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First SMS-based Secure Mobile Payments System Launched

Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), Dr. Mohammad Yaseen inaugurated Pakistan’s first SMS-based Secure Mobile Payments Technology, at a launch event hosted by AKNMTECH, a Mobile Value Added Services Provider. PTA ICT Directorate and AKNMTECH have ventured upon this enterprise to provide financial management empowerment to the consumers, thus providing them with the fiscal flexibility and confidence of conducting theirbanking transactions reliably through their mobile phones using simple medium of SMS. Furthermore this platform proposes a harmonious uniformity wherebybanking and telecom institutions can integrate their respective services to it and further enrich the service quality for their consumers. It provides an engaging, efficient and secure platform for mobile andbanking services providers to offer to their customers a true “Anywhere, Anytime” mobile banking experience.

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PTA Busts Another Illegal Gateway Exchanges Network in Islamabad

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and FIA National Response Center for Cyber Crimes (NR3C), Islamabad has unearthed two illegal international VoIP gateway exchanges in F-6 and F-7 sectors here. Three foreigners have been arrested during the seizure of these illegal exchanges. According to a press release issued here by PTA, this initiative is a part of the pursuance of PTA efforts against illegal telecom traffic and seventh successful raid in the Federal Capital. During the raid PTA and FIA team recovered 11x8 GSM cellulars, 4 GSM media gateways and 1x router, 4 switches and more than hundred GSM antennas.

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