Public Accounts Committee of the National Assembly has directed Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) to lodge First Investigation Report (FIR) against Directors of 4 telecom companies within 48 hours for stealing tax worth Rs. 320 million in fiscal year of 2006-07, reported Online and carried by various newspapers. Ch Nisar Ali, Chairman PAC asked FBR to...
NetSol Technologies today announced that the company was awarded a new contract with the Government of Pakistan to develop and implement a public grievance management system. The new system will be in support of the government’s drive to introduce e-government concepts for providing improved services to its citizens. The online grievance management...
PTA is launching Urdu version of its website . Website is told to be exactly the same in terms of content, but in Urdu language. We are told that PTA is officially launching Urdu website tomorrow in a ceremony, reportedly, Sardar Latif Khosa, Minister for IT and Telecom is going to inaugurate the website. But if you want to view website before that,...
India is planning to seek meeting with Pakistan to resolve issue of cross-border telecom signals which are affecting the quality of cellular operators of both countries in Punjab border areas. Indian cellular operators have complained that signals of Pakistani telecom providers are crossing into Indian territory in Punjab, leading to interference with...
There should be a list, publicly available on PTA website, of the banned websites in Pakistan along with the reason of the ban. Along with, there should also be a procedure to review the decisions of blocking such websites. This was demanded by Press United to Serve Humanity (PUSH), a Pakistan-based non-profit, non-governmental, and non-sectarian consortium...
In a study conducted by the BBC World Service, four in five respondents said they believe web access is a fundamental right. 27,000 people from 26 countries were surveyed. 78 percent of Internet users believed the Web gave them greater freedom, while nine in 10 said it was a good place to learn. Almost 50 percent of those who used the Internet said...
There are around or above 90 data centralization projects in the queue at NADRA, which will ultimately enable all the data of several dozen departments linked with your CNIC number, told us high level sources at NADRA. Orientation of projects is yet to be made public; however, NADRA is planning big to make all the data of the country to be linked with...
By A Cellular User I have been living in this country since I was born 37 years ago. I have seen so many ups and downs in the country, when I was told that Pakistan is in serious crisis. Worst of all, all the serious situations were severe than the previous ones. As a common person, with my limited vision, I can understand that all those situations...
Earlier today I came across this news playing on GEO television network where they showed an email sent from PM cell. The address was mentioned as pmmediaoffice gmail.com. Went into shock and awe. The government official channel is using GMAIL account. What is going on here? Thought it was some kinda mistake so I just googled the email address and...
Just recently we wrote on importance of local content generation and its important for broadband and ICT uplift in the country. Now in this conference held yesterday over the on the same topic, and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has said that it will encourage and facilitate local content providers to participate in the ICT based economy...
I thought well before writing this post, let me tell you why? Our readers may know that ProPakistani keep a notable distance from politics or political conversations, however, along with, we feel our responsibility to opine an un-biased review about those political comments that directly impact Telecom and IT industry of Pakistan. APP yesterday asked...
A common Pakistani internet user, when logs-in the computer with Internet Access, he has usually nothing much to do, besides email, facebook and maybe couple of news sites at most – and then what? If he is not Yahoo/MSN chatter then he is left with not many options to explore but to sign-off and get back to his life. If we are talking about 5 million...
Service in parts of Lahore, Sialkot, Kasur, Sahiwal, Bahawalnagar and Bahawalpur near the Indian border is being affected by the bandwidth interference from Indian territories, reported Dawn. Citing a source at Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, dawn said that the main cause of the interference is the service of TATA Mobile and Reliance Communications...
CCP has been given unlimited powers, which needs to be checked, said Kashmala Tariq on assembly floor, as reported by Business Recorder. MNA said that there should be check and balance while reviewing the performance of the commission. There are flaws in the competition laws, which should to be removed. The CCP should not target industrial sector that...
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has planned for changing annual spectrum fee for radio based services. For the purpose, authority has asked the industry for input on the matter, before March 15th, 2009. PTA says that current spectrum charging methodology was defined back in 2000. It said that the situation has changed altogether due to increased...
