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PTA Busts 61 Illegal Mobile Phone Jammers

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has removed 61 jammers across Pakistan to make sure that the spectrum for the telecom operators is not hindered. According to online news sources, PTA conducted numerous raids with Federal investigation Agency (FIA) against illegal frequency users and removed wireless equipment. It also merits mentioning here that the authority had also successfully vacated 66 illegal frequency spots which were affecting the authorized spectrum of licensed telecom operators during the year 2011. Under Telecom (Re-Organization) Act 1996, frequency spectrum is a scarce and highly expensive national resource; and it is the duty of PTA to protect the rights of telecom operators. Chairman PTA, Dr. Muhammad Yaseen emphasized that PTA as a regulator is vigilant and is taking all measures to stop this unlawful activity.

ZONG Sets Up State-of-the-Art Multimedia Contact Centre in Lahore

Zong is actively working on several projects to build its brand. Recently, Zong has initiated the first the state-of-the art multimedia Contact Centre in Lahore. The company is already operating two contact centers in Islamabad, providing services to a variety of customer segments. However, this contact centre, which be running on a cloud computing platform, will allow contact centre functionality to integrate with cloud-based Customer Relationship Management. Additionally, the new contact center is expected to employ more than 900 trained agents. During the launch ceremony Babar Bajwa, Director Customer Services, Zong said “The contact centre has been built to cater for the growing market needs and anticipated growth in coming years, especially in north and central regions.”

ICT R&D to Finance National Firewall

The National ICT R&D Fund is asking academia/research institutions and organizations to for send in proposals for the development, deployment and operation of a national level URL Filtering and Blocking System, also known as National Firewall system. The new URL Filtering and Blocking system will serve as a country firewall and will be programmed to potentially block the access of any URL, throughout the country. As per the proposal requirements, the system should have the capability to block URL from domain level to subfolder file levels. Pakistan’s higher authorities have been looking to implement such kind of system, which can restrict access to unfavorable content, for quite a long time now.

Telenor to Further Increase Tariff for Poora Pakistan Offer

It appears like that Telenor is not done yet with increasing tariffs on its Poora Pakistan package. At the launch of the package, Telenor was charging its customers at PKR 7.99 plus tax/ day. However, in Jan 2012, the daily charges were doubled to PKR 15 plus tax and after a while they were further raised to PKR 20 plus tax. As per the new charges, the customers with Poora Pakisatn will charged at PKR 25 plus tax. The new subscription charges, as on their website, will be applied from 1 March 2012. It should be noted here that this time a call setup fee of PKR 1.00 plus tax will also be applied all day, excluding 9 p.m. to 10 p.m.

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