MULTAN (September 15 2003): Federal Minister for Telecommunications and Information Technology Sardar Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari has said that Wireless Local Loop System (WLLS) exchanges would be established from the rural plane tracts near the river Indus to the mountainous territory in south Punjab next year. “No such areas would remain deprived of communications facility […]
LAHORE, September 13: After failing to find a single buyer for local telecommunication giant the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited, government on the advise of donor agencies have decided to corporatise it on WAPDA’s pattern. Sources informed The Nation that the PTCL board in its recent meeting has taken a decision in principle to divide the […]
ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: The government has initiated a consultative process by involving the stakeholders for minor adjustments in the recently announced telecom deregulation policy, said the information technology minister , Awais Leghari, here on September 10. “After removal of flaws pointed out by different quarters, the draft policy would be presented to the cabinet for […]
Karachi, ministry of Information Technology and Telecom will formulate mobile cellular policy a move it says is essential for the growth of the sector sources in the ministry say. They said the policy was essential in the current deregulated scenario and hops that the ministry would announced it in a few months. The mobile sector […]
ISLAMABAD- The government plans to spend Rs1 billion on IT related services, to boost the business of the local IT industries. “This would generate employment opportunities for young professionals,” said Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunications, Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari. He was addressing a seminar on ‘Empowerment through e-governance’ organised by Oracle Corporation Pakistan here […]
KARACHI- The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) is scheduled to ink a Service Level Agreement (SLA) with the country’s 72 Internet Service Providers (ISP) on August 13, 2003. According to the SLA, the ISPs would be able to file compensation charges against the PTCL in case of service failure, an official said on August 12, […]
ISLAMABAD- The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) chairman, Maj-Gen Shahzada Alam Malik (retired), has said the authority is fully aware of its responsibilities to cope with the issues that will arise in an open and unrestricted regime, envisaged in the new telecom deregulation policy. Gen Alam was speaking at a meeting of PTA and Pakistan Telecommunication […]
KARACHI- Urdu language’s firstnews website, www.ekhabarnama.com, was inaugurated by Sindh Minister for Science and Technology, Yaqoob Ilyas on August 5, 2003 at the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) House. The minister said that the emergence of an Urdu news website is a positive addition, which will go a long way Source: The News Date:8/6/2003
KARACHI- The Pakistan Telecommunications Company (PTCL) has struck a deal with the British Telecom for uplink services of fibre link bandwidth following expiry of its highly expensive contract with Singapore Telecom on July 31. The BT has started services for PTCL, providing uplink facility for bandwidth from August 1, company sources confirmed on Monday. “The […]
KARACHI- A firm Yahoo is looking into the possibility of investment in Pakistani IT industry. The organisers of ITCN Asia 2003 Exhibition and Conference in a statement on August 1, 2003 announced this. They said that Yahoo has announced to participate in ITCN Asia 2003 scheduled to be held in Karachi from August 9 to […]
KARACHI- The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) is alarmed at the fact that the number of local calls per subscriber per month is rapidly declining primarily because of the increase in tariff. A report compiled by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority says that it is a matter of concern that the number of local calls per […]
ISLAMABAD- A public sector Internet Service Provider, the Comsats, has announced a substantial reduction in its tariff structure, lowering the regular dial up nearly 30 percent, and announcing plans for pre-paid internet card. Comsats that stands for Commission for Science and Technology for Sustainable development, has also introduced a service for bulk users that gives […]
ISLAMABAD- The chairman of Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC), Dr Pervez Butt, on July 28th, 2003 said the country’s overall software exports had reached an exalted figure of $40 million. Speaking at a concluding session of “14th All Pakistan Software Competition and Exhibition” organized by Khan Research Laboratories (KRL), he said the IT sector was […]
KARACHI- The Pakistan Telecommunication Company has started to block those proxy servers which were increasingly being employed by Internet users to access proscribed websites. This was stated by well-placed sources in the telephone utility on July 27th, 2003. Internet users in the country turn to proxy servers, thousands of which are available on the worldwide […]
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