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PTA starts licence awarding to new cell-phone cos

ISLAMABAD : Leaving the government in efforts to introduce a comprehensive policy for cell-phone industry, the state­watchdlg for the telecom sector in Pakistan launched the process of awarding licences to new operators in addition to the existing four. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority Chairman Shahzada Alam Malik, addressing a Press conference on Tuesday, said that the process […]


Reduced line-rent from Dec 1

ISLAMABAD Line-rent, reduced by Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) last month, would be applicable from December 1, 2003, a PTCL spokesman said on Monday. Clarifying news reports, the spokesman said the new line-rent rates would be included in bill for the month of December. He also stated that in line with the directives by Minister […]


Govt may allow 100 TV channels, says Rashid

KARACHI: An exhibition, featuring 100 rarely-seen photographs of Mohtarma Fatima Jinnah, was inaugurated here on Sunday by Minister for Information & Broadcasting Sheikh Rashid Ahmed. The exhibition, opened here at the Arts Council, has been organised as the last leg of the exhibition arranged by the Directorate General of Films and Publications, Ministry for Information, […]


Pemra to issue TV, radio licences in five categories

ISLAMABAD, Dec 20: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has said it will soon issue licences in five categories to establish more radio and television stations in the country. According to the annual report (2002-03) of Pemra issued recently, the categories in which the licences would be granted are: international-scale licence, national-scale licence, provincial-scale […]


Pakistan riding television revolution

LAHORE: Television underwent a revolution in Pakistan in 2003, as new independent cable channels many broadcasting from offshore hit the airwaves and broke all the old rules. The phenomenal induction of private television stations broke the state’s monopoly on broadcasting to thrill Pakistanis, starved of entertainment and incisive, impartial debates on domestic and international issues. […]


Cable TV attracts Rs7.28b investment in 2002-03

LAHORE-The cable TV is the largest and fastest-growing medium among the country’s electronic media, as some Rs7.28b, it is estimated, have already been pumped into the sector. The investment is believed to be growing at the phenomenal rate of 132pc annually. While the sector is employing some 30,000 people, cable TV is estimated to have […]


Paktel to Launch GSM Network:

ISLAMABAD, Dec 11: Paktel will launch its GSM network with an investment of $150m in 2004 and will cover at least 150 cities and towns across the country, the cell phone company’s chief executive officer Jerry Mobbs announced on Tuesday. “This first GSM call on the networks will be made in March 2004 followed closely […]


PM calls for bridging the digital divide summit

GENEVA, Dec 10: Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Jamali on Wednesday called for bridging the digital divide so that technology benefited the rich and the poor alike. Addressing the World Summit on Information Society on Wednesday, Mr Jamali said: “The enormity of the digital opportunity is marred by a vast digital divide.” “To bridge this divide […]


PTCL provides ‘peering’ bandwidth

KARACHI: The Pakistan Telecommunication Company (PTCL) has announced a ‘peering bandwidth’ facility to the Internet Service Providers (ISP) – first service of its kind in the country – allocating the flow of local data traffic within the country without going international. “We discussed that in the last board (board of directors) meeting and we have […]


President,s intervenetion resolves telecast dispute

ISLAMABAD, Nov 30: The longdrawn row between Pakistan Television (PTV) and Dubai-based satellite channel Geo over telecasting rights of the New Zealand series was Finally resolved on Sunday following President Gen Pervez Musharraf,s intervention. According to the new arrangement ,worked out in a meeting attended by relevant officials, the state-run PTV will telecast the remaining […]


President,s intervenetion resolves telecast dispute

ISLAMABAD:Pakistan Television Channel 3 has run into difficulties because of bad management and marketing, sources told Daily Times on Monday. Sources said poor quality programming and non-payment of programme fees to artists for PTV Channel 3 programmes had ensured heavy lossesd They said that for the last four months, any artist who appeared in any […]


Pemra cut in tariff suspended

KARACHI, Nov 29: The Sindh High Court suspended the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) decision reducing the charges payable by cable operators to channel distributors to one rupee per subscriber. Initially, the charges ranged from Rs6 to Rs8 but were reduced by Pemra to provide relief to the cable operators and their customers. The […]


Play writer Sara Naqvi dies in London

Karachi, Nov 29 (Staff Reporter): Sara Naqvi, a noted dramatist and writer and sister of Fatima Surayya Bajia died in London after brief illness. She had been working in BBC London as producer and newscaster for 15 year. Her body will arrive here from London on November 29 and will buried after Namaz-e-Zuhir. Source: Jang […]


Pemra tariff not feasible, say cable operators

KARACHI:21,Nov The cable opera­tors have said that the tariff announced by Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) was not feasi­ble. Talking informally with the newsmen at an Iftar-eum-dinner hosted for them by Pemra, Sindh, here on Thursday office bearers of Cable Operators Association (COA) said that their members were not satisfied with the tariffs. The […]