ISLAMABAD: The four cellular service providers bidding on licences for next generation mobile technology emerged the winners of Wednesday’s bidding war, with Mobilink, Telenor and Ufone picking up licences for 3G services while Zong being the only bidder to acquire a licence for both 3G and 4G services. Mobilink and Zong bid for the ‘superior’ […]
On Wednesday Pakistan, finally, entered the age of 3G and 4G. Everyone came away from the long-awaited but much-delayed spectrum auction with something in hand. A senior telecom executive put it like this: “That is the beauty of the way the government had designed the auction.” While all the four bidders got 3G licences (two […]
ISLAMABAD: The auction of 3G and 4G licences has made Pakistan nearly $1.12 billion or Rs111 billion richer, putting it very close to the expected $1.2 billion target the government had set for itself in the budget for FY2013-14. The government had expected to make Rs120 billion and was counting on revenue from the telecom […]
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 […]
ISLAMABAD: The Senate’s Functional Committee on Human Rights on Monday recommened that the government unblock the YouTube in Pakistan. A resolution, which was passed unanimously, said the ban be overturned as no such provision was in place in any other Muslim country. Committee chairman Afrasiab Khattak of the Awami National Party, while reading the resolution, […]
LAHORE: Auction of licences for 3G and 4G spectrum technology in Pakistan has been challenged in the Supreme Court for being violative to set rules. The Watan Party, through its counsel Barrister Zafarullah Khan, filed a petition and submitted that the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) had announced the qualified bidders on April 17. He said […]
ISLAMABAD: While debate on the introduction of next generation mobile phone technology is centred on what the government stands to gain from the auction of licences, few realise what the advent of 3G and 4G will mean for consumers in Pakistan, who currently enjoy connectivity at some of the lowest rates in the world. The […]
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 […]
ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary panel on Thursday recommended to the government to bar defaulter telecom operators as well as subsidiaries of the government from participating in the auction of 3G/4G technology. It also asked the government to hold the auction of 3G and 4G separately instead of one go as planned by the government to accomplish […]
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 […]
ISLAMABAD: Taking notice of the contradictory media reports on the auction of 3G and 4G spectrum, the Supreme Court on Wednesday observed it expected the media would not carry reports that might harm the auction process. A three-judge bench of apex court – headed by Justice Jawwad S Khawaja – was hearing a petition seeking […]
ISLAMABAD: The bids of four mobile operators of Pakistan qualified for the auction of 3G and 4G licenses, Chairman of Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, Ismail Shah, told Dawn on Thursday. Shah said that the four companies, namely Mobilink, Telenor, Ufone and Zong, were not defaulters of the government and the legal aspects of their bids had […]
ISLAMABAD: Following receipt of initial bids for 3G and 4G licences from mobile phone companies, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) said on Tuesday it had received offers that surpassed its expectations. According to a PTA official, the regulator received four initial bids. The licences would go under the hammer next week. “It is refreshing to […]
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 […]
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