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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has awarded a Long Distance and International (LDI) fixed telephone license to the Wise Telecommunication Systems. WiseComm is an international communication service provider, run by a Pakistani Tariq Sharif Bhatti, who is based in France…

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Friday completed the auction process for the grant of Wireless Local Loop (WLL) licences in five out of 14 telecom regions of the country. The telecom authority granted WLL licences for Faisalabad, Central, Lahore and Gujranwala telecom regions. The auction for the remaining regions would be completed by August [...]

Mobile phone consumers are reaping the benefits of the opening of the telecommunication sector as the mobile phone operators, feeling the heat of expected competition, have improved incentives and services to retain their subscriber base. The facilities being offered by the mobile companies were not thought of in the past. Each of the existing cell [...]

Local discounted call provider REDtone International Bhd said it has been awarded a long distance and international licence from the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, the first such licence for the group since its listing on Mesdaq in January. With the licence, valid for 20 years, REDtone (www.redtone.com) will be able to offer voice telephone, data and [...]

NetSol Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTWK), a developer of proprietary software applications and provider of information technology (IT) services, today announced it has been recognized by the Pakistan government for its efforts in spearheading the country’s IT growth, part of Pakistan’s global multi-billion dollar foreign investment program. “We are honored to be recognized by Pakistan’s government [...]

The PTCL subscribers will heave a sigh of relief as the package announced by the company last month to exploit untapped potential of the telecom market would come into force fully on Friday (today). Under the package, the PTCL domestic and commercial consumers will enjoy free-of-cost local calls during late night hours, reduced international and [...]

NetSol Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTWK), a developer of proprietary software applications and provider of information technology services, today announced that its majority-owned subsidiary, NetSol-Akhter, has substantially completed the roll out of it wireless broadband infrastructure in Karachi, Pakistan. The company plans to offer wireless broadband services for domestic and corporate customers at speeds up to [...]

The Urdu version of Microsoft Windows would be introduced in Pakistan soon as a majority of its people have a problem understanding and writing English, said Information Technology Minister Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari. The move was aimed at improving the literacy rate in the country, The News quoted him as saying…

Pakistan will introduce, from September 15, highly-sensitive machine readable passports (MRP), produced by NADRA by harnessing some 5,000 discreet components to authenticate both the automatic finger identification and facial recognition – a new concept in the world – said NADRA’s Chairman Brig (Retd) Saleem Ahmed Moeen. “The MRP, produced by a state-of-the-art computer technology, will [...]

Usman Ahmed, a 17-year old student from Lahore, could be the next Pakistani science sensation. Usman has just successfully completed a five-week course to which he had won entry through a worldwide competition. The annual research event for young scientists is sponsored by the Virginia-based Research Science Institute and run jointly by the world famous [...]