Pakistan has emerged as one of the leading markets in telecommunications especially in the voice segment. In broadband sector, by December 2008, we had approx 250,000 broadband subscribers and within a span of one year, by December 2009 the figure has just crossed 600,000 showing a massive annual growth rate of more than 200%

survey was conducted across Pakistan including major and small cities and rural areas from August to October 2009 along with the PTCL representatives on a mutually agreed survey methodology. It may be mentioned that this is the first instance of PTCL being show caused on account of poor quality of service which clearly shows the PTA’s resolve for not compromising on sub-standard services to the telecom consumers

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in collaboration with FIA has busted a gang which was involved in Illegal Call Termination in two different

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) have raided illegal gateway exchange in F-10, Islamabad installed in a Flat and arrested four persons. This raid was conducted based on the information obtained through PTA’s facility which detects illegal telecom traffic. PTA Zonal Office Rawalpindi was monitoring the illegal activity before the raid. It [...]

Recently, in an interview with Daily Times, President Mobilink, Rashid Khan said that maybe Mobilink will go for 4G-LTE Technology instead of 3G.

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has introduced an online facility for overseas Pakistanis in order to get their SIMs data regularized or to block the extra SIMs/connections issued against their Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC). This automated facility has been made available on the websites of PTA and all cellular mobile operators. Since the successful launch [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is closely working with State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on the draft of “Third Party Mobile Banking Regulations” which will be finalized soon. Once finalized, it will connect all banks of the country with cellular mobile operators for mobile transactions. It was said by Chairman PTA, Dr. Mohammed Yaseen while addressing [...]

Pakistan Telecommunication Limited (PTCL) has taken another step towards making their customers more comfortable by offering golden and Platinum numbers to them

[Press Release]Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) have raided illegal gateway exchange operator in Commercial Area, Defence Phase-IV, Lahore and arrested two persons. More than 50 Tellular devices along with allied accessories have been recovered from the scene. This raid was conducted based on the information obtained through PTA’s facility which detects [...]

How come Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) can call the service “un-regulated and optional”, I ask Mr. Dogar that the whole industry is going to rely on this very basic service in the future and I remind him of Mobile Banking and the services like EasyPaisa which are not possible without SMS. If the SMS service is un-regulated then I doubt the whole banking and transaction system that operator is talking about will and going to be implemented in Pakistan will be “un-regulated