Telecom News Bulletin

PTA Suffers Financial Losses of Rs7.609 Billion

A senior official of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has been accused by his own chairman of causing huge financial losses of Rs7.609 billion to the national exchequer by extending undue favours to some preferred telecommunication companies of the country.

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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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TeleCON-2010 CONCLUDES IN LAHORE

Telecom specialists and distinguished speakers at the 3rd Global TeleCON-2010 presented some truly worthy ideas for deployment of Next-Generation technologies in the Telecom sector of Pakistan to enable swift economic growth and consumer satisfaction. The Theme of the conference was “Taking Pakistan to the Next Level of Technology Frontiers”. Dr. Muhammad Yaseen, Chairman, Pakistan Telecommunication [...]

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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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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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