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Service providers in Pakistan make alternate arrangements for internet connectivity
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In the aftermath of the massive disruption in internet services due to a fault in a significant submarine cable earlier this week, service providers in…
German Ambassador meets PTA Chairman to discuss IT investments in Pakistan
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On Thursday, the German ambassador to Pakistan, Bernhard Schlagheck, met the Chairman of PTA (Pakistan Telecommunication Authority), Maj General Amir Bajwa, per a press release…
Jazz comes up first with the highest number of new subscribers and the fastest-growing 4G network
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Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA’s) Annual report 2020 presented an analysis of the leading telecom sector players and their respective growth. It had declared Jazz as…
Govt to improve internet services in Waziristan within ‘next four weeks’
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With directives to the private mobile service providers to improve services in South Waziristan, the government is working to recommence fixed-line broadband services in the…
Telecom industry reports significant decline in average revenue per user in FY20
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According to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the average revenue per user (ARPU) per month for telecom operators has dropped by 8.31 percent in the…
Govt actively monitored internet during lockdown: PTA
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The year 2020 was memorable for loads of obvious reasons. It was the year that witnessed a meteoric rise in the number of Pakistani internet…
PTA blocks 452 access links of a Netflix movie containing blasphemous content
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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) informed the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday that it had blocked 452 out of 778 links of the blasphemous…
Pakistan to get commercially available 5G internet by 2022-23: PTA
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5G technology has been making waves all over the world ever since its introduction, with applications ranging from smartphones to driverless cars. Now, the Pakistan…
PTA introduces measures to block spam, unwanted calls and messages
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Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has recently introduced measures that enable the public to block spam and unwanted calls and messages. As per the report published…
Telecom sector added Rs278bn to Pakistan’s exchequer in 2020: report
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The telecom sector’s titanic status in Pakistan prevails as a recent report released by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) shows that the sector’s contribution to…
PTA has approached social media platforms to block the sacrilegious film “Lady of Heaven”
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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has approached multiple social media platforms and directed them to remove the trailers of the sacrilegious film – Lady of…
Jazz takes the lead in 4G in the Quality of Service Survey by PTA for Q4 2020
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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has published the results of the independent cellular Quality of Service (QoS) survey for the 4th quarter of 2020. Based…
PTA issues notices to Google and Wikipedia over sacrilegious content on the platforms
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Following a summoning issued by the Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court over the matter, the Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has issued notices to…
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