Users in Pakistan are advised not to pay any advance money for the Starlink internet through the company run by Elon Musk. The authority has told the public to refrain from pre-booking the satellite internet services on the Starlink website or any associated website. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said in a news release that…
Ufone, a Pakistani Telecom Company, has been awarded Next Generation Mobile Services (NGMS) spectrum by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) as a result of the recently held spectrum auction. The company won the spectrum in a bid to enhance the 4G customer experience across the country. Federal Minister for IT & Telecom, Syed Aminul Haq along…
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority’s (PTA’s) struggle for spam-prevention is not new, as we first heard about it in August 2009 when the authority wanted to establish a Do Not Call Register (DNCR). It later got a life and came into a working state in several stages. The authority published details in its consultation paper of October…
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Wednesday, July 1st, 2020, suspended the PlayerUnkown’s Battlegrounds (or PUBG for short) after several media reports of suicide cases attributed to the popular online multiplayer game. Though the media had reported several cases of suicide in the past few days that brought the involvement of PUBG mobile game in the…
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has started the process of registration of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) in the country to crab the illegal transmission of internet traffic. The authority wants to promote the legal use of ICT services or businesses in Pakistan to provide safety to telecom users. It said in a press release “The exercise…
PTA conducted quarterly surveys in 27 cities across Pakistan to monitor the quality of service being provided by the telecom operators in Pakistan last year. All the telcos were ranked on various metrics for performance in data, voice, and SMS. Jazz and Zong led in numbers for internet data services while Ufone was observed to…
Your phone will not be blocked as PTA has been directed to hold on blocking unregistered mobile phones that the authority was supposed to do earlier.
PTA (Pakistan Telecommunication Authority) has approved edotco PK’s change of shareholding in the Tower-Sharing Services Company by way of subscription by Dawood Hercules Corporation Limited (DH Corp) of 45% of the share capital of edotco PK, an end-to-end telecom infrastructure services company. This positive decision of the Government and the Regulator is a welcome promotion…
Since the advent of 3G and 4G telecom services, there is a rapid influx of smart devices into Pakistan, over the past two years. However, the high import duty and taxes on handsets, have caused a sharp rise in the smuggling of handsets, through illegal channels, leading to major revenue losses for the government exchequer….
Ms. Anusha Rahman Khan – The Minister of State for Information Technology & Telecommunications, will be the Chief Guest at the 10th Pakistan Telecommunication and ICT Conference (TeleCON 2017), being held on 18th May, 2017, at the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. The theme of this years’ conference is “Pakistan in the wake of Revolutionary Technologies…
