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Voice over internet: Grey telephony costs public purse Rs800m a month

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ISLAMABAD: The government is facing an estimated revenue loss of Rs800 million per month on account of ‘grey telephony’, The Express Tribune has learnt. “Network operators in Pakistan cannot detect over 70% of illegal telephonic traffic. The state lacks resources to keep the whole telecom sector under the scanner,” FIA Director General Saud Mirza told […]


Telecom sector contributes over Rs 510b as taxes

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By: Salman Abduhu LAHORE: Telecom sector has contributed more than Rs510 billion as taxes in the last nine years but successive governments have squeezed the sector considering it a cash cow to hide their own inefficiencies. Questioning the wisdom of economic managers of the government behind decision to slap additional tax on telecom industry, experts […]


Suspending cellular services

By: ZAHEER ABBAS THE unique idea of suspending cellular service was introduced by Rehman Malik, Interior Minister, on Eidul Fitr to curb the menace of terrorism. Since then it has been used arbitrarily by the government on every important event. Suspending cellular service every now and then does not seem to be a rational approach […]