Tag: Pta
PTA, scrap late-night call packages!
The Senate Standing Committee on Cabinet Division showed its resentment over delay in the sale of 3G licenses, misappropriation in the universal services’ funds...
PTA paid extra allowances amounting to Rs 36.203 million to its...
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) paid extra allowances and financial benefits amounting to Rs 36.203 million to its officers, including educationists, without approval from...
International Calling House – A name that grey trafficking operators fear
In an apparent bid to save more than Rs 70 billion and to control grey trafficking by telecom operators, the government has decided to...
Special Audit reveals gross violation of SoP by PTA
The Special Audit of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) 2010 has pointed out gross violation of Standard Operating Procedures (SoP) by the Authority as it...
PTA supports blocking of websites
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has fully supported the recent initiative by the government to provide a cost-effective, automated and transparent system for blocking...
Pakistan and Indonesia sign PTA
After years of lengthy negotiation, Indonesia and Pakistan finally signed on Friday the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) at Jakarta. A statement issued by the...
Pakistan to sign PTA with Indonesia
Pakistan and Indonesia have completed their internal formalities for signing the Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) which is expected to be signed during the upcoming...
SBP, PTA sign MoU to promote mobile banking
State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop an appropriate technological and regulatory...
PTA, federation issued notices on text ban case
The Lahore High Court (LHC) has summoned the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) management and the federation over a notice issued by the PTA to...
The dimwits
How come ‘Butt’ was never banned?
They wanted to ban Jesus Christ? Really? How come they think of banning ‘Jesus Christ,’ and not ‘Moses’ and...
PTF has itself to blame for Davis Cup fiasco
The officials of the Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) are themselves to blame for losing the hosting rights of the upcoming Davis Cup tie despite...
Wait 3 months for 3G tech, say PTA chairman
The most advanced technology of the modern world – 3G technology – would officially be launched in the country within a short span of...
Petition challenging PTA ‘obscene list’ filed in LHC
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has been caught while withdrawing its regretful decision of issuing a list of “obscene and indecent” words to be filtered...
Operators seek clarification over ‘morality control’
Mobile operators in Pakistan on Monday deferred implementing a ban on nearly 1,700 ‘obscene’ words from text messages, saying they were seeking further clarification...
Obscene words or minds?
It is a norm for the authorities in Pakistan to reach the pinnacle of ludicrousness time and again, but sometimes they can outshine even...
The puritan’s job
It gets - pardon the language - harder and harder
If, perchance, the reader wanted to send the line above as an SMS text on...
PTA’s offensive words ban ‘incredulous’
Guardians of linguistic purity have long warned against the pernicious impact that text messaging may have on the young, but in Pakistan, officials have...
