ISLAMABAD, Nov 22: In line with the government’s decision of issuing two more cellular mobile licenses, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has invited Expression of Interest (EoI) from the interested parties to initiate the process of issuing the licenses. Recently, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) chairman, Shahzada Alam Malik, had announced that two new mobile […]
ISLAMABAD, Nov 21: Bill Gates, Chairman software giants, Microsoft Corporation, telephoned President General Pervez Musharraf and discussed with him prospects of investment in the field of information technology in Pakistan. Gates, one of the world’s leading IT tycoons, informed the president during the telephonic conversation that Microsoft Corp is examining prospects of investment in Pakistan. […]
KARACHI: Global software giant, Microsoft, has presented proposals to the Ministry of IT and Telecom for the development of IT industry and easy access to computer throughout the country. “We have identified six key areas in our proposals which have 32 initiatives. Now we are waiting for their (ministry) response,” said Jawwad Rehman, Country Manager […]
ISLAMABAD, Nov 15: The PTCL board on Friday formally approved the recently announced tariff package. According to a press release, this package is based on the PTCL customer focused pricing strategy to prepare the company for effectively meeting the forthcoming competitive dynamics. The strategy is also in line with the government’s policy towards providing affordable […]
KARACHI: The state-run Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has unveiled a roadmap to diversify its services with an aim to generate more revenues. “In order to diversify its service, expand its business and encourage private sector participation, the PTCL is continuing to expand collaborative business agreements with other companies/service providers/operators,” the company said in its […]
KARACHI: The reduction in line rent, installation charges and international and nation-wide call charges would only erode as much as Rs 2.5 billion a year against government’s claim of over Rs 6 billion as these incentives would increase the number of users in the country and would boost the volume of both domestic and international […]
PESHAWAR, Nov 5: The Northern Telecommunication Region-1 (NTR-1) of the Pakistan Telecommunication raised over Rs3bn revenue during the 2002-03 financial year, surpassing the target it had been set for the same period, officials told Dawn. NTR-1 – responsible to take care of PTCL’s interest in the areas previously. falling under the now abandoned administrative units […]
KARACHI: The country’s cyber gateway faced disruption on Monday as the only undersea fibre link went through planned maintenance. Internet browsers said they were receiving ‘excuse messages’ time and again from their Internet Service Providers (ISPs) while the ISPs complained of not receiving the required bandwidth from the Pakistan Telecommunications Company Ltd (PTCL) to continue […]
KARACHI: Cyber Crime Wing meets in Islamabad today (Saturday) to discuss the single item agenda “co-coordinated efforts to combat cyber crime in Pakistan”, sources close to the matter said. Project Director, Federal Investigation Agency would chair the wing’s meeting which would be attended by high officials of the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority and representatives of Internet […]
KARACHI: The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has rejected Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited’s (PTCL) an astounding 3,000 per cent tariff surge on co-location services and has forthwith stopped implementing its order. The PTA reached the decision on Saturday in Islamabad after hearing complaints from numerous PTCL customers, mostly the Internet service providers, sources close to the […]
KARACHI: Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) – the state-run telecom bellwether – posted a growth of Rs23.08 billion during the financial year ended June 30, 2003, due to increase in its operating profits. The PTCL accounts and payout announced on Wednesday exceeded market expectations significantly with net income soaring by 16.50 per cent. The dividend […]
KARACHI: In the wake of post deregulation era challenges, Pak-istan Telecommunications striving hard to provide stata -of- the-art tele-corn facilities in rural areas, com. pany ‘ s statement quoted Chairmaii Akhter Ahmed Bajwa as saying on Saturday. He said while addressing a high level meeting to review the South-ern Telecom Region progress the other day.zahir […]
ISLAMABAD: Intel has taken a major initiative by launching ‘Teach to the future Pakistan’ countrywide computer training programme for teachers, Presently, the training facility is available for 40 ,major cities of Pakistan. Intel has chalked out an aggressive plan for 2004 to benefit more number of teachers. Intel’s county manager, Kamil F. Hasan, told this […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 19: Information technology company Microsoft has decided to make substantial investment in the country and it would train 50,000 teachers in the field. Sources said on Thursday that Microsoft’s regional executive Emre Berkin, Middle East regional director Mohammad Kateeb and general manager of the south Gulf subsidiary, Abdullah Almulla, recently discussed the details […]
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