• June 19, 2022
• Information Technology

KARACHI: Shabbir Mansha, Acting President FPCCI, has expressed his longstanding concern that despite having a young, energetic and driven population of 65 percent, Pakistan has not yet even partially capitalized on its potential in the various tech industries in general and IT & IT-enabled Services (ITeS) in particular. However, he maintained, Pakistan is all poised […]

• June 18, 2022
• Information Technology

The digital transformation of economies across the globe is accelerating with ever-increasing pace. Disruptive technologies and emerging customer expectations are pushing the telecom industry for advanced solutions of high speed connectivity and access. A key aspect of Pakistan’s digital policy and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority’s (PTA’s) regulatory approach has been to ensure widespread broadband access across […]

• June 17, 2022
• Information Technology

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Thursday announced the social media company under the government’s vision to boost the digital economy of the country. According to a statement released by the telecommunication authority, the representatives of MICO World Limited attended the event held at the PTA headquarters and completed the registration process. It added that […]

• June 16, 2022
• Information Technology

President Dr Arif Alvi on Wednesday urged the need to accelerate the pace of adopting emerging Information Technology tools for rapid socio-economic development of the country. Addressing the 10th convocation ceremony of the Karakoram International University (KIU), the president said by focusing on the human resource development of youth and equipping them with marketable skills, […]

• June 14, 2022
• Information Technology

Digital transformation of Sindh can only become a reality if we employ effective public private partnership KARACHI   – Sindh Chief Minister (CM) Syed Murad Ali Shah on Monday announced a tax relief to the IT industry by reducing the rate of Sindh Sales Tax on IT, software business and call centres from 13 percent to […]

• June 11, 2022
• Information Technology

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan needs to harness emerging technologies to strengthen national security and national sovereignty. This was the key message of former senior military officers and eminent intellectuals at the seminar on ‘Disruptive Technologies – Impact on Future Warfare’ organised by the Centre for Aerospace & Security Studies (CASS) in Islamabad. General Zubair Mehmood Hayat […]

• June 10, 2022
• Information Technology

ISLAMABAD: The export earnings from telecommunication, computer and information services grew 29.29 per cent to $2.19bn during July-April 2021-22 against $1.7bn in the same period last year. Despite improved performance by the IT and telecom sector in the outgoing fiscal year, the sector is less likely to achieve its export target of $3.5bn by the […]

• June 9, 2022
• Information Technology

ISLAMABAD: Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) Chairman Asim Ahmad on Wednesday said that the IT industry should expect good news in the upcoming federal budget, scheduled to be announced on Friday. He was speaking at the contract signing of the development and implementation of the One Window Portal System by the Special Technology Zones Authority […]

• June 8, 2022
• Information Technology

KARACHI: Due to fault in submarine cables, people in different parts of the country faced slow internet speed on social media platforms. The people witnessed disruption while using Facebook, WhatsApp and other websites that was later confirmed by the authorities. “There were disruptions both on DSL as well on mobile data but for a few […]

• June 5, 2022
• Information Technology

KARACHI – Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Syed Amino Haq has announced the setting up of an IT park in Karachi and a piece of land costing Rs31 billion has been acquired from the Civil Aviation Authority near Karachi airport for the project. “Plots will be available at much lower rates in the […]

• June 3, 2022
• Information Technology

The number of broadband subscribers has reached 116 million while the broadband penetration was recorded at 52.60 per cent by the end of April 2022. As per detail available on the official site of the PTA website, Pakistan has around 193 million mobile phone users. The number of 3G and 4G service users in Pakistan […]

• June 3, 2022
• Information Technology

KARACHI – Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has said that access to information and e-suite services, including healthcare, e-finance, e-agriculture, and e-education will enable the rural and remote communities of the country to compete better to support the economic development of the country. This he said on Thursday while speaking at a contract […]

• June 3, 2022
• Information Technology

KARACHI: In line with its “Digital Pakistan” programmer, the federal government on Thursday launched three Rs5 billion projects in Sindh to lay over 2,000-kilometre-long optic fiber cable in six major districts of the province. The project would connect more than 200 towns and union councils (UCs) in the province with high-speed internet service that would […]

• May 26, 2022
• Information Technology

After hitting the 100-millon mark last June, the mobile broadband subscriptions (3G and 4G) continued their growth run in the ongoing fiscal. As per the latest data released by the sector regulator Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the number of mobile broadband subscriptions had reached nearly 113 million as of April-end 2022, showing a growth of […]