Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has announced that it shortlisted a total of 3.5 million SIMs to be blocked - without mentioning the numbers for each operator, that are said to be un-verified.
Etisalat has once again denied Pakistani officials to pay the pending payment of USD 800 million or Rs. 68.8 billion for buying 26 percent shares of PTCL. Instead Etisalat hinted at releasing money against getting more PTCL shares.
World celebrrated Telecom day on May 17th - aligned with the global traditions, Pakistani ICT companies and professionals rejoiced the day with a commitment to make telecom and technology services available to the rural, under-served and un-served communities of the country.
Pakistan Telecommunication has published its quarterly report for Oct-Dec 2010. Derived from the report, ProPakistani presents here an overview of cellular sector of Pakistan.
Mr. Abdul Aziz, President and CEO of Ufone has once again made it to the top by getting nominated for the “CEO of the Year Award 2011”. Mr. Aziz’s nomination is truly a cause for national pride as once again he is the only Pakistani who has been nominated.
While we are left with only four days for SIM verification process before un-registered SIMs to get blocked on May 17th (which also happens to be the World Telecom Day), it looks cellular companies and the mobile phone users won’t be able to complete cent percent verification of SIM data.
The software giant, Microsoft has bought Skype for $8.5 billion, in all cash deal. The agreement has now been approved by the boards of directors of both Microsoft and Skype.
Cellular users in the country have crossed 105 million mark in February 2011 to reach a total of 105,151,871 mobile subscription, according to the data released by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority.
From 2009 to 2010, installations of unlicensed software on personal computers (PC) in Pakistan remained constant at 84%, putting Pakistan in 15th place among the countries with the highest piracy rates.
PTA has developed coverage maps for Broadband, Cellular, Fixed line and Wireless local loop services for Pakistan. This application gives the flexibility to select any one of the telecom service like GSM, DSL, EVDO.
Cabinet Division has suspended Member Finance Nasrul Karim Ghaznavi of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) following a charge sheet prepared by Chairman PTA, while FPSC has been asked to investigate the charges.
PTA has asked all Cellular companies to block all unverified and un-authorized connections by May 17, 2011 if subscribers don’t register their SIMs on their computerized CNICs
Cellular subscribers who have availed Mobile Number Portability or MNP service to switch their network has crosses 10 million mark. The number of subscribers migrated from one cellular network from other had been reported to reach 3.44 million in March 2010, which grew to 10.642 million subscribers in March 2011.
Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) today announced its financial results for 9 months ended 31st March 2011 and said that it earned net profit of Rs. 4.972 billion down by 63 % from Rs. Rs.7.86 billion for the same period last year.
As confirmed by many inside sources, PTCL is conducting LTE trials with Huawei and ZTE. We are further told that both the vendors signed Memorandums of Understating (MoUs) with the landline giant last month. The trials, although, are indoor in nature.
