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Customer care practices enforced by the telecom operators in the country are in line with global standards that has helped raise the bar for...

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has reiterated its earlier stance that up to 10 subscriber identity module (SIMs) can be issued on one Computerised...

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has spent millions of rupees on advertisement in the national press stressing that all unauthorised mobile SIMs will be blocked...

Though Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) continues to remain a mainstay in the broadband sector, its market share has declined from 53 percent in June...

Pakistan’s telecommunication industry would be left with only 42 million subscribers after May 17, industry sources told Pakistan Today on Sunday. Those remaining would...

The local assembly and manufacture of low priced smart phones will begin shortly in the country by Pakistani companies working in collaboration of chip...

KARACHI - Pakistan is likely to reaffirm its willingness for a Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) with Turkey, which will lead to a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), in the forthcoming fourteenth session of the Pakistan-Turkey Joint Ministerial Commission (JMC) in Istanbul. The session is scheduled to be held from May 04-05, 2011 after a break of over one year, sources said. An official delegation, led by Minister of Commerce Makhdoom Amin Fahim, is also likely to attend the impending

KARACHI - The decision of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to further slash the rate of Access Promotion Contribution (APC) to zero cents per minute is believed to depress both revenue and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) for Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL). The regulator has already cut the APC from 5.5 US cents per minute to 2.75 US cents per minute, though a hearing against the decision is pending in the courts.

KARACHI - Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has failed to conduct its Quality of Service (QoS) survey last year, and it has yet to conduct any such effort this year. It has been learnt that PTA has failed to commence its ninth QoS survey for mobile operators which was supposedly due in November, last year. The authority faced litigation by the few mobile operators over issuing show cause notices to them in the light of their poor quality of service during the eighth QoS

KARACHI - Though the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has reportedly issued a draft of procedures to be utilised by Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNO), the regulator has not received yet any application in this regard.
The Member Technical PTA Dr Khawar Siddiq Khokar, while speaking to Pakistan Today, said that the regulator has not received any official applications in this regard yet, however, the potential virtual operator must first have a commercial agreement

LAHORE - Warid Telecom congratulates Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) and the telecom industry of Pakistan for achieving the significant milestone of one hundred million mobile subscribers. More than 61 percent of population and over 92 percent of land area is now covered by cellular services, it noted.
Being part of this great achievement and phenomenal success, Warid Telecom expressed its commitment towards business excellence. It was stressed that Warid meets the needs of its

ISLAMABAD - Some of the country's cellular service providers on Monday suspended Blackberry services to some diplomats and officials of foreign missions, triggering a controversy that finally compelled the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to withdraw its directive over the issue passed around two weeks ago.
However, PTA official told Pakistan Today that no direction was passed on to telecom operators to suspend Blackberry services to foreign missions or diplomats. "PTA

LAHORE - The telecom watchdog, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), and federal government are perhaps overly optimistic about the launch of 3G (third generation) telecommunication services in Pakistan by the end of 2011. Telecom sector experts believe that 3G telecommunication services are not economically viable in a country like Pakistan where the majority of telecom revenues are derived from voice traffic.
Speaking to Pakistan Today, a senior official in a leading

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan-Indonesia Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA), expected to be signed in the first quarter of 2011, would give the necessary impetus to bilateral trade. This was stated by Pakistan Ambassador to ASEAN and Indonesia Sanaullah, while delivering a public lecture on "Pakistan-Indonesia Economic Cooperation", at the country's premier National University (UNAS), Jakarta, received a press release on Wednesday.
He said that the recent visit by Foreign Minister Shah

KARACHI: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Chairman Dr Mohammad Yaseen is optimistic of prospects of continued growth in the telecom sector as leading companies such as Mobilink, Telenor and Zong operating inside Pakistan, have pledged to commit substantial investments to Pakistan in a bid to boost their respective networks and hence market share.
Addressing the serious issue of illegal SIMs, PTA chairman revealed that more than 11 million SIMs have been blocked after