Prime Minister Pakistan Raja Pervaiz Ashraf today inaugurated the Cellular Village Connection Trial (CVCT) project at Attmuqam, Neelum Valley AJ&K.
President and Prime Minister AJ&K, federal minister for information and federal minister AK&GB were also present on the occasion. Chairman PTA Dr.
Mohammed Yaseen and DG SCO General Khalid Rao informed the Prime Minister about the efforts made for development of telecommunication facilities at AJ&K in general and at Neelum Valley at particular.
The deregulation of the telecom sector brought about a revolutionary change which saw huge increase in subscriber base, teledensity and coverage area.
People of Neelum Valley were however devoid of these state of the art telecommunication facilities due to security concerns. In order to address the issue PTA initiated Cellular Village Connection Trial (CVCT) project at Attmuqam. The equipment was provided to SCO free of cost by Huawei through efforts of PTA. SCO successfully launched the project which is not only providing cellular services to the people but also catering for the needs of the defense organizations.
In order to extend the project up to Taobat, the last town of Neelum Valley, Universal Service Fund (USF) may be utilized. At present about 1.96 billion Rupees have been deposited by the telecom operators as USF for AJK which is more than sufficient to provide telecom coverage to all the important towns of the Neelum Valley.
The Prime Minister stressed upon need of telecommunication services for socio-economic development of the area. He appreciated the efforts made by PTA and ensured provision of necessary funds in order to expand telecommunication services to other parts of Neelum Valley.
SCO is looting Azad Kashmir people with expensive low quality service.
India have allowed all telecom services in their part of Kashmir. We should also allow our telecom services.
We already do. AJK is being served by all cellular operators. Neelum is geographically hard to cover and also have massive cross border coverage issues so SCO is trying a special type of service here. India doesnt allow service in any border region of kashmir at all.
SCO is looting people look at their internet rates and compare with rest of country
http://www.sco.gov.pk/Tariff/SNETTariff.htm
Sohail Abid ki suni gai.. :)
Sohail ke b bt ban gyi.
aaha it’s nice step!
excellent initiative specially for the tourists who come from abroad are mostly concerned about availability of such things like telecom infrastructure, internet etc
Good , Kuch to kare govt :)
@aqeel All telecom operators are working in Ajk. For your kind information there is still ban on SMS in the valley of kashmir. That’s the real face of world’s largest democracy.
aqeel is right. Why you are not in favour of opening telecom services their while you himself enjoying it. I think sco also has colonial behaviour look at their rates and everyone except them is taboo there.
http://www.sco.gov.pk/Tariff/SNETTariff.htm