PTA successfully achieved 95 percent of its 2009 targets
Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA) has successfully achieved 95 percent of its targets for the year 2009 and set new targets for the year 2010. Some of the important achievements of the PTA in the year 2009 were discussed during annual meeting of the authority, held here [...]
PTCL opens Pakistan’s largest data centre
Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) has opened the largest data centre of the country in Karachi.
This data center is engineered using the rigid specifications consistent with international standards and data center certification bodies and is enabled with technologies that proactively manage an enterprise mission-critical applications for predictable and continuous [...]
PTCL’s anti-worker policies: Senate body expresses reservations
The Senate Standing Committee on Information Technology (IT) has expressed its reservation over the strategy of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority Limited (PTCL) converting regular employees’ jobs into contract. The committee also asked the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to improve its standard of service.
The Committee which met at the Parliament House [...]
NA passes Institute of Space Technology Bill 2009
The National Assembly passed The Institute of Space Technology Bill to provide for establishment of Institute of Space Technology.
The 43-clause Bill was moved by Minister of State for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Mehreen Anwar Raja that was passed by the voice vote providing for the establishment [...]
PTCL offering 30 percent discount package for students
Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) is offering a special 30 percent discount package for the students on 1 Mbps connection of high speed broadband services.
The PTCL is providing better services to the growing student segment under the broadband services, in recent years, with the confidence that the package [...]
Punjab government, Microsoft sign accord
A strategic partnership agreement was signed between the Punjab government and a leading computer software company Microsoft here on Friday, under which Microsoft would extend all-out co-operation for the development of local IT industry. The company will also set up an innovation center at Software Technology Park, disclosed an official. [...]
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SEVP (Corporate Development) PTCL Sikandar Naqi and Brigadier Haider Ali Khan Deputy DG Special Communication Organization (SCO) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which will enhance the mutual co-operation and collaboration in the field of telecommunication services.
Nokia has released Qt 4.6, the latest version of [...]
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The blocking of millions unregistered connections by PTA has resulted in a decline in the phone sector growth. The overall customer’s base reached 95.918 million, only 0.01 percent growth from preceding month. Because of the downfall in revenues, most of the telecom companies have adopted “cost-cutting [...]
TELECOM TIMELINE
2002
State-owned monopoly PTCL has earned over USD 1 billion revenue in FY2001-02.
Internet bandwidth availability increased to 400 MB/s and 250 cities connected through fiber optics.
Under an Ordinance, the division was up-graded into Ministry of Information Technology & Telecommunications (MoITT) in order to govern the IT and Telecom sector.
Inter operator SMS implemented.
46 licenses issued for [...]
E-Commerce, E-Banking, Mobile Banking – it’s really all the same to me now. I think we’ve had enough people talk about this and explain everything to us. The more I listen to lectures and conferences, the more ideas I get about where we need to be going. For example, I recently spoke at a Mobile [...]
The Telecom sector of Pakistan has a life of its own. Over the years, it has been able to create a position for itself as a true communication system in a progressive society, henceforth becoming an enabler for Pakistan. The history of the Telecom industry from 1947 to 2009 has crawled its way from providing [...]
There are 6 major telecom players in the Pakistani market, which has the potential of catering to approximately 160 million people, on a one-to-one basis. And there is no way an organization can attempt to reach out to the millions if it doesn’t have strong, redundant, reliable infrastructure which can create the enabling ecosystem for [...]
There has been a lot of talk, maybe way too much talk regarding Cloud Computing. The fact that companies and individuals are willing to keep data on someone else’s servers is interesting.
It does, of course, address the disaster recovery aspect since your data will be at some off-site location. Any damage to company property does [...]
By CSO Pakistan
Business continuity, Disaster Recovery, Redundancy and Uptime – these are no longer terms restricted to a server room in an IT company. They’ve come out from the technical infrastructure and begun making an impact on real life, practical processes.
The question of whether or not you can manage disaster is perhaps an incomplete one [...]
I stopped my car at the cross roads in Saddar, Rawalpindi and smiled at the Taxi wallah and motioned him to go ahead and have the right of way, expecting the usual surly and rude behavior. But, hey! He smiled back, stopped his car and motioned me to drive on. Got me thinking. I repeated [...]
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