CEO USF Parvez Iftikhar inaugurated the first of 28 off-grid sites planned throughout the country, at a distant location - almost 7 hour drive from the main city of Karachi and at least an hour and a half from the nearest town – Umarkot, the site lies in the deep interiors of the Sindh province. At the occasion, Iftikhar appreciated Telenor...
Chief Minister Punjab, Mian Shahbaz Sharif (center left) visited Telenor Pakistan’s USF project in Cholistan Desert after granting approval for the use of provincial land for the project. 29 Telenor Pakistan Base Transceiver Sites have been planned with an aim to connect the un-served population of the Cholistan region under the USF project. Telenor...
Lahore (PPA) Federal Secretary IT & Telecom Mr. Naguibullah Malik has emphasized the need for joint efforts to achieve the goal set by the Universal Service Fund (USF) working under his Ministry. He was delivering his presidential speech at the 2nd National Seminar on “Social Impact of USF Initiatives”. The seminar was organized by “Teletimes...
Universal Service Fund (USF) has decided to make it mandatory for the telecom operators in rural areas, where USF is providing subsidy, to power their infrastructure through renewable energy sources. This was decided by Board of directors of Universal Service Fund (USF) in their 20th meeting yesterday. Meeting was chaired by Federal Secretary IT, Mr....
Universal Service Fund awarded telecom contracts worth Rs. 1.25 Billion for providing Broadband Internet in the un-served urban areas of Hazara Telecom Region (HTR) with PTCL and Wateen Telecom and Optic Fiber connectivity to un-served tehsils of Central Balochistan with Wateen Telecom. SEVP-Corporate Development-PTCL, Sikandar Naqi and General Manager-Wateen...
Internet Service Providers’ Association of Pakistan has termed 1 MB DSL for Rs. 299 (in selected areas), as anti-competitive. ISPAK in a communication with PTA has requested the authority to check such moves by the PTCL to save total collapse of the broadband industry. ISPAK said that such promotions by PTCL will lead industry to: All DSL operators...
Telenor Pakistan has become the country’s first telco to have completed a Universal Service Fund project – and that too before time. To celebrate the achievement, Chief Technical Officer Telenor Pakistan Khalid Shehzad and CEO Universal Service Fund Company Parvez Iftikhar jointly inaugurated a BTS (Base Transceiver Station) cell site in...
Few days ago, we reported about 1 MB DSL for Rs. 299 in rural areas from PTCL – however, we didn’t know then that it was due to Universal Service Fund only. As per information we have received, USF is already subsidizing the broadband internet in various un-served and under-served areas of Pakistan. Reportedly, USF will roll out such initiatives...
National Seminar on “Social impact of USF Initiatives” is scheduled for 20th of August at Islamabad Hotel, Islamabad, told us a source familiar with the situation – reportedly all necessary arrangements are considered done in this regard. As we all know that the objectives given to Universal Service Fund, referred to as “USF”,...
Universal Service Fund signed contracts for providing basic telecom services in Nasirabad (Balochistan) with CM Pak and Broadband Services in Multan Telecom Region (Southern Punjab) with World Call. CEO CM Pak, Mr. Qian Li and CEO World Call, Babar Ali Syed signed these contracts with CEO Universal Service Fund, Parvez Iftikhar. Secretary IT, Mr. Naguibullah...
Universal Service Fund signed three contracts with PTCL for providing Broadband Services in the Un-Served Urban areas of Southern Punjab and Lower Sindh and for providing Optic Fiber connectivity to all Tehsils in Southern Balochistan. CEO-PTCL, Walid Irshaid and Chief Executive Officer Universal Service Fund, Parvez Iftikhar signed these contracts. Universal...
International Incoming Traffic of Telecard and Dancom has been suspended by PTA for not paying APC for USF, told us by a higher official at authority. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has been very strict these days with LDI operators for not paying their APC, and this extreme decision was made by the authority to make sure that all operators...
To commemorate World Telecom and Information Society Day (WTIS) 2009, Ministry of Information Technology held an event in Islamabad which was attended by representatives of public sector, industry and academia. WTIS theme for this year is ‘Protecting children in cyberspace’. On this World Telecom day 2009, Universal Service Fund also signed contracts...
We have received complaints about Mobilink’s network outage in Karachi. When contacted, Mobilink didn’t return any comment over the issue, however, our source at Mobilink confirmed that customers are facing network related problems throughout the city. Source further informed that engineers are working on the issue. Expect updates on this page,...
ISLAMABAD: Parvez Iftikhar, CEO-Universal Service Fund signing contracts of Broadband Project in Un-served Urban Areas of Faisalabad Telecom Region with Sikandar Naqi, SEVP-PTCL and Furqan Qureshi, GM-Wateen Telecom. Hifz-ur-Rehman, Secretary IT and Dr. Muhammad Yaseen, Chairman-PTA are also standing. Broadband is considered to be the electronic highway...
