LHC disposes off Telenor’s Petition Against PTA’s Notice

Telenor Pakistan’s write petition against Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has been disposed off by the Lahore High Court (LHC), Rawalpindi Bench recently, reported Telecom Recorder.

TR said that the court has settled the issue with the direction to the respondent of the case, telecom regulator, to provide detail technical details of the show-cause notice it issued to Telenor.

LHC in the recent hearing ordered PTA to continue its further proceedings against law subsequently furnishing reasons of the show-cause notices before it.

If the PTA findings are not satisfactory, the show-cause notices will be considered as void, the court concluded the verdict.

The Issue of Quality of Services

Telenor Pakistan submitted a write petition against PTA on the show-cause notice it received on poor Quality of Service (QoS) in March. Later, Ufone also went into legality to challenge the same action of telecom regulator in order to avoid the heavy penalty of Rs 350 million followed by show-cause notice and other proceedings.

In June, LHC awarded stay orders to Ufone and Telenor for interim period against the show-cause notices issued by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on poor Quality of Services (QoS).

The court’s verdict also restricted the telecom authority to impose penalties to all five mobile phone operators in accordance with its regulatory procedures applied on them fail to comply service standards.

The regulator declared cellular telephony services substandard on technical grounds and issued show-cause notices in January 2010 to all five operators—Mobilink, Telenor, Warid, Ufone and Zong.

Ufone

Ufone sources confirmed that its petition is still on the bench.

Cellular Phone Operators Stance:

Officials of the cellular phone operators were of the view that they failed to identify the raised issues of service quality recently because operators maintained their services as per international standards.

They said the call-drop is evident in high intensity areas under jammers and communication system of Armed forces, which will not be controlled by operators per se.

PTA Stance:

The telecom watchdog has said that its findings are accurate on technical aspects, which have also been acknowledged by cellular phone operators in the response of raised issues. It says that it has removed all jammers installed in different areas promptly so there should be good quality of services maintained by operators on their part.


  • Frankly, PTA does not have right tools to monitor QoS. They just act on rumors. Uptill now they have not published/issued a single technical audit which can be a standard for operators to follow QoS parameters.

    • You mean that equipment is better which could show “Telenor OK” in every status? :D

      What rumors about telenor? Why not for Warid zong mobilink?

  • I don’t understand who kills the peoples. Sims ? Motorbikes ? or Arms ?
    So what should we ban ?


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