Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and University of Engineering and Technology (UET) Taxila  have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote telecom related research that would be beneficial for both the organizations, the telecom industry as well as for the country. This MoU would also boost mutual cooperation in the relevant fields and would enhance the industry academia linkage. Chairman PTA Dr. Mohammed...

Ericson and Pakistan Telecommunication authority (PTA) has announced the Ericson, PTA Mobile Excellence Award to honor all those students who come up with the innovative user generated ideas or professionally produced content that let the mobile users to have more fun and improves the usual mobile content experience. The panel judges included senior management from Ericson and PTA. The Ericson and PTA Mobile Excellence Award 2010 aims to...

Pakistan is trailing 25 million dollars of valuable foreign exchange per month due to grey telecom traffic. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has given this shocking news to Economic Co-ordination Committee in the meeting on July 29, 2010. “After making necessary changes in the Telecom Deregulation Policy, illegal telecom traffic can be controlled whereas inflow of foreign exchange could be doubled from its present level...

In what he called a “white paper” apparently against his own government and the ministry that he was heading till recently, the Prime Minister’s Adviser on IT Sardar Latif Khosa has revealed that at least Rs50 billion are annually lost by the state and telecom companies due to the unchecked grey tariff, i.e. illegal network of international calls. Forwarded to the Chairman National Assembly Standing Committee on IT, Khosa, who was...

3G telecom services would soon be launched in Pakistan with a lot of work on its policy directives already completed, IT and Telecom Secretary Naguibullah Malik said on Monday. Speaking at a seminar organized by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in collaboration with HUAWEI on ‘Demands for 3G and beyond,’ Malik said the policy on 3G licenses would be issued soon, enabling Pakistan to launch the new technology. He said three...