On this 63rd Independence Day I take great pride in stating that, Universal Service Fund (Ministry of IT) continues to provide ICT services to more and more unserved areas of Pakistan
Aug 032010
In the aftermath of on going natural catastrophe i.e. heavy rains and floods, Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd is making all out efforts to restore communications lines so that the people in the affected areas are connected with their loved ones.
Aug 032010
that 3G services would be launched soon in Pakistan as lot of work on policy directive for 3G has already been completed. The number of broadband users has grown from 45,000 in 2007 to 900,000 this year. Due to these results Pakistan has been placed 6th in terms of quarterly growth and 10th in terms of annual growth in the global broadband market by a leading web source on broadband statistic
Aug 022010
It appears that the intention of Pakistani government is to fill its pockets with much needed dollars to address the country’s economic challenges following India’s entire licensing process but the market in Pakistan shows different statistics than India as Pakistan is currently not a profitable mobile market. India has been able attract large investments because of the sheer size of its population and the potential it represents for mobile broadband services”
In order to subscribe for this ongoing promotion which starts from 13th June, subscribers need to simply send a single SMS to subscribe to the service. The promotion has to be activated monthly and will be available on all packages. All calls to ZONG numbers will be covered by this promotion as well as all SMS to numbers on-and-off the ZONG network.
Jun 072010
The event was organized by PTCL procurement department. Among participants include the teams of PTCL Greens, PTCL Blues, National Engineers, IMEX International, Getronics, Huawei, Cisco and Inboc Technologies. The final was held between PTCL Greens and IMEX International, in which after a nail biting match, PTCL Greens won the title by 8 runs. Asfaq Q Ahmed was named man of the match as a result of his tremendous performance.
In a ceremony held at PTA Headquarters, Ericsson Pakistan and PTA signed a statement of interest for prospective Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) initiatives to be carried out by both organizations. Chairman PTA, Dr. Mohammed Yaseen and President Ericsson Pakistan
May 182010
PTCL has launched Quad Play. This landmark initiative taken by PTCL is first of its kind, where customers do not have to worry about their missing favorite TV programs, slow internet connections, phone bills or security of their houses. As they can avail IPTV with 125 digital quality TV Channels through which they can enjoy the luxury of rewinding, pausing their favorite TV programs along with the feature of Video on Demand (VOD) that includes over 500 blockbuster movies
CEO USF further informed that Universal Service Fund continues to run Rural Telecom projects in which more than 3,000 unserved villages have already been provided service
Advisor to Prime Minister on Information Technology, Sardar Latif Khan Khosa, Secretary IT, Naguib Ullah Malik and Parvez Iftikhar, CEO-Universal Service Fund were also present at the occasion
