LAHORE - SALMAN ABDUHU - The growing user base of new messaging applications have severely hampered SMS revenue for telecom operators in markets like India, Singapore, Indonesia and Pakistan, industry sources said. According to them, messaging applications like Nimbuzz, are finding tremendous ...

ISLAMABAD – Pakistan, after passing of six long years, has now lifted ban on issuing new licences to the long distance international (LDI) operators, it was learnt on Tuesday.Sources in Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) disclosed to this scribe that a ban imposed in 2006 on issuing ...

Lahore High Court (LHC) on Thursday directed the Ministry of Religious Affairs that the Haj tour operators, who have paid their taxes, should be allotted their respective quotas. The LHC was hearing the petitions filed by private tour operators. The petitioners, Imran and Sohail, pleaded the court ...

The Lahore High Court (LHC) has prohibited private tour operators from taking Haj applications following the stay order on Hajj quota allocation issued on May 2.The LHC on Wednesday stayed the process of allocation of Haj quota to the previously registered Haj group organisers (HGOs) with the ...

QUETTA - On the call of Baloch Student Organisation-Muhiud Din and Balochistan National Party-Mengal, cable operators suspended transmission of Urdu news channels across the province.Earlier, the BSO-M and BNP had threatened to suspend transmissions of Urdu private channels from February 1 ...

ISLAMABAD - The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Wednesday decided to move against Haj Tour Operators on account of pilgrims' complaints and inaction of Ministry of Religious Affairs in this regard.A NAB board meeting chaired by Admiral (Retd) Fasih Bokhari decided that if no action was ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER KARACHI - Ufone saw 7 per cent growth in revenues in the closing quarter of financial year 2011-12 compared with the same quarter of pervious fiscal year, showing a continuation of positive trend in earnings despite tough financial circumstances. Pakistan Telecommunication ...

Our Staff Reporter KARACHI - Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has recently launched SMS based consumer perception survey system 8899 aiming to sought consumers perception about performance of their respective cellular mobile operator. PTA has made special arrangements to make it free of ...

KARACHI - The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and Cellular Operators of the country have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for sharing of infrastructure. An announcement made here on Friday said that the MoU will be valid for an initial term of three years and may be extended with ...

LAHORE (PR) - PTA Punjab Zonal Director Kamran Khan Gandapur has directed the regional heads of all mobile telephone operators for further improvement of the internal mechanism of their Customers Service Centres to facilitate the customers. Best use of resources should be put in place so as to ...