ISLAMABAD: Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Dr Ismail Shah said that the regulator had purchased software to evaluate quality of services being provided on account of 3G and 4G in the country.“We will ensure quality of services on account of 3G and 4G in the country,” the chairman PTA said while talking to reporters after […]
ISLAMABAD: The final round of auction process for 3G licenses concluded at $902.82 million on Wednesday without any change from the previous four rounds and a $17.82 million increase in the bids since their beginning, Dawn News reported. The total opening price of the four lots of 3G licenses was $885 million while there was […]
Since Finance Minister Ishaq Dar’s declared intention to raise Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves, expected revenue from a 3G and 4G telecom licence auction was part of the government’s calculations. Initially the government expected as much as $ 1.5 billion from the auction. However, recently that amount inflated to $ 2 billion and numbers as high […]
Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) received four bids for spectrum auction for the next generation of mobile services by the 14th April deadline. The contenders include China Mobile, PTCL (Ufone), Mobilink and Telenor. Turkcell did not participate reportedly because it did not find the prospects attractive enough as a new entrant in the Pakistani market with […]
KARACHI: With the advent of 3G/4G technology in Pakistan, businesses will witness robust growth in the coming years, as the demand for the technology is tremendous. This was stated by Shariq Rehman, West Country Manager— Oracle Pakistan and South Asia Growing Economies. The speedy broadband service will empower customers and organization to bridge demands of […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has received four sealed bids for spectrum auctions of 3G and 4G from the five operators, working in the country with the expectation against expectation of the government, no new entrant is going to participate in the upcoming bidding. All existing cellular companies have submitted their sealed bids till Monday at 4pm. “The […]
ISLAMABAD: The government holds no plan to restrict important services such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Viber and Skype after spectrum auction of multi-billion dollars 3G and 4G technologies in Pakistan, official sources confirmed to The News on Friday. The Cellular companies are worried about streams of their cash-inflows in terms of their voice services as increased […]
ISLAMABAD: The government on Thursday turned down the recommendation of a panel of the Upper House of Parliament for stopping the auction of multi-billion dollars 3G and 4G technologies till hiring of third member of the PTA and completion of the Authority. After a heated debate over this issue during the meeting, the Chairman of […]
KARACHI: Unlike its Bangladeshi counterpart that sold the third-generation (3G) mobile spectrum licences through an open outcry method, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has chosen to hold an electronic auction, which sources say is in line with international standards and also likely to discourage collusive bidding. Electronic auction is the standard practice all over the world […]
State Minister for IT Anusha Rahman has said that owing to the sagacious polices of the incumbent government, the country is entering into the era of latest information and communication technology. She said this while chairing a high-level meeting here on Monday, which was convened to review the progress of different projects being carried out […]
ISLAMABAD: The project of e-Government Intranet has been established for communication among all federal ministries / divisions, an official said on Wednesday. Around 75 percent of the ministries concerned are connected to each other through e-communications the official said. “The e-Government Intranet has been established for e-communication among all the federal ministries /divisions. Around 75 […]
By: Azam Khan ISLAMABAD: The Balochistan Assembly has ignominiously disappeared from cyberspace after it failed to clear the dues of the company that manages its website. The provincial assembly has not made any payments to its web service provider for the last four months. Now when one clicks on the website, instead of information on […]
ISLAMABAD: The participation of new international telecom operators in the auction for 3G/4G spectrum is highly likely, which will result in tough competition among the operators besides generating good revenue. A delegation of Turkish mobile phone operator, Turk Cell, was on a visit to Pakistan to study its business case regarding the spectrum auction while […]
ISLAMABAD: The government might succeed in its efforts to enter a new player in the telecom sector as Turk Cell has showed keen interest in the forthcoming next generation spectrum auction and very soon its representatives will visit Pakistan for the purpose. Turk Cell has showed its interest to invest in the telecom sector of […]
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