اسے اردو میں پڑھیے Raja Pervez Ashraf, Prime Minister of Pakistan, has disapproved Pakistan Telecommunication Authority’s November 13th directive, in which mobile operators were asked to not to sell new mobile connections at franchises, service centres or retailers; instead SIMs were to be dispatched to subscribers’ home addresses given on their CNICs. Sources tell us that Prime Minister made this announcement after meeting the CEOs [...]

اسے اردو میں پڑھیے Muhammad Farooq Awan, Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has said that Mobile Number Portability (MNP) customers are most identifiable of all cellular customers. Mr. Farooq Awan said this in a talk show on Dunya TV. Mr. Awan’s statement has come just a week after the MNP services were banned in Pakistan for security reasons. According to Chairman PTA the MNP customers are [...]

اسے اردو میں پڑھیے Mobile phone operators are considering these last days as their final chance to sell SIMs to maximize their subscribers’ count. For which, we are told that, mobile phone companies are making every possible effort to make sure that they sell maximum numbers of SIMs until sales channels are closed on December 1st, 2012. It maybe recalled that PTA had issued a [...]

اسے اردو میں پڑھیے Muhammad Malick of Dunya TV recently did a talk show on new measures taken by government of Pakistan to curb terrorism in the country. These measures include the blanket ban on sale of SIMs on retail stores, ban on sale of SIMs in KPK, ban on MNP and others. Malick had guests from PTA and telecom industry to talk about the [...]

اسے اردو میں پڑھیے Over 80 million mobile phone connections in Pakistan were forcefully put on radio silence for over 40 hours in two days, after a directive was issued by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to all cellular operators of Pakistan to suspend mobile phone service amid security threats on 9th and 10th of Muharram i.e. November 24th and 25th of 2012. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority had [...]

اسے اردو میں پڑھیے Nasrul Karim Ghaznavi, recently suspended member finance of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, is reinstated again, told us sources from regulator’s headquarter. Mr. Ghaznavi is reinstated after given clearance by inquiry committee that was probing into corruption charges against him. Mr. Ghaznavi was given a service extension for four year term in 2009, after which his differences with former Chairman grew that ended [...]

اسے اردو میں پڑھیے On directions of Interior Ministry, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has just issued a directive to all cellular companies for closure of cellular and wireless services in as many as 49 cities across Pakistan, in addition to suspension of cellular services in whole of Baluchistan province. Directive, a copy of which is available with ProPakistani, details that cellular and wireless services will remain [...]

اسے اردو میں پڑھیے Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has just issued a directive, asking cellular operators to suspend mobile phone service in Karachi, Quetta and G9 (Islamabad), tells us sources in cellular companies. Suspension details are as following: Karachi: 1 PM to 12 AM Quetta 1 PM to 12 AM G9 – Islamabad: 1 PM to 7 PM A source, who has seen the PTA directive, [...]

اسے اردو میں پڑھیے The cellular phone operators have challenged the order of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to stop all night call package in the Islamabad High Court (IHC), reported Daily Times. Paper says that all operators jointly submitted a writ petition in Islamabad High Court, saying that there is no telecom law that regulate content on telephony services. They said that cellular phone companies have [...]

After two failed attempts in getting a consultant for 3G auction, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has now finally selected three consultants for 3G auction, which, according to PTA’s claims, is likely to happen by mid-January 2013. In a Auction Supervisory Committee (ASC) meeting held yesterday, it was revealed that PTA has finalized the process of selection of consultant for 3G auction, told us a source with [...]

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has issued a directive to all mobile phone companies to immediately take down the late night packages, said a statement issued by authority yesterday. The reason given is that such packages run counter to the social norms and values of the country. “We have received a number of complaints from the Supreme Court of Pakistan, the Standing Committee of the [...]

The information technology ministry and the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) have been asked to explain the suspension of mobile phone networks in the name of national security. The notices to file the comments were issued on Monday by the Sindh High Court on a petition submitted by a cellular service provider. A foreign cell phone network operator has taken the government to court citing massive [...]

Illegal SIMs or unregistered SIMs are truly a menace and must be dealt vigorously. While I am not challenging the intents and spirit of Pakistani government for curbing illegal and unregistered SIMs from our country, but I can safely tell you that the path they have adopted is not going to help them at all. I am claiming this based on facts and proven track [...]

Farooq Ahmed Awan, Chairman PTA, yesterday hinted that YouTube might be opened in Pakistan, in next couple of weeks. He was speaking with a private news channel. YouTube was banned in Pakistan on September 17th, 2012 when anti-Islam film upload on YouTube had sparked protests across the Muslim world. Mr. Awan said that Pakistan Telecommunication Authority is in touch with Google, the controlling company of [...]

Telecom is usually considered a decent sector, with noble human resource and harmless people in general. They are usually taken as seamless gentlemen who easily comply with every government directive and policy that is thrown at them. Be it the shut down orders of cellular services or the ever-changing rules of selling of new SIMs, telecom sector has always followed government directives without complaining anything. [...]