This initiative is part of the pursuance of PTA’s efforts against illegal sale of jammers. PTA carried out extensive survey and upon investigation and confirmation, successful raids were conducted by PTA and FIA on different shops at Karachi Electronic Market in Saddar. A total of 30 jammers were recovered and owners were arrested.

Chairman PTA, Dr. Mohammed Yaseen said that under Telecom (Re-Organization) Act 1996, PTA is to ensure that the rights of the licensees and telecom users are duly protected. Sale of illegal Cellular Mobile Jamming Device and its usage has resulted in call dropping and degraded quality issues. Resultantly, the public and service providers were facing inconvenience due to illegal and unauthorized sale of jammers, their installation and operation.

Chairman PTA further said that Government of Pakistan has issued a Policy under which installation of jamming devices /disablers without permission, is illegal. He said that PTA as a regulator is vigilant and shall take all measures to stop this unlawful activity. He also warned all those involved in selling or installing of jammers to stop such unlawful activities, otherwise strict action will be initiated against them as per the law.

According to some statistics, the combined customer base of China Mobile (NYSE: CHL)’s and Telenor’s Pakistani operations is around 26 million, representing a 28% of the market.

For the record, China Mobile entered the Pakistani market in 2007, when it paid $460 million to buy Paktel from Millicom International. Previously, they had tried to acquire Warid Telecom, another smaller operator in the country, but failed to reach an agreement on the price.

China Mobile’s Pakistan subsidiary is called Zong and with just under 6 million customers, it is the smallest of the 5 main operators in the country.

The consumers can make a free-of-cost call to PTA at 080055055 if their complaint is not resolved within given timeframe by the concerned telecom operator,” he said and added the PTA would take up the matter with the concerned authorities and would get it resolved amicably.

He said Pakistan’s telecom sector has seen phenomenal growth patterns during the past decade. This phenomenal progress has brought huge benefits to the people of Pakistan in terms of network expansion, scope of services, reduction in tariffs and availability of an array of telecom operators with regard to choice of their service provider.

Telecom sector maintains handsome inflow of money to the government exchequer. The vision of telecom growth coupled with consumer protection as envisaged in the `Pakistan Telecom Act, 1996′ has been realized through a teledensity of 61.8 percent and number of an expanding cellular mobile subscriber base that today stands at 94.34 million,” he added.

In the last one year, he said, PTA have come a long way towards achieving a number of measures that have strengthened the industry and benefitted the consumers at large. “Our mechanism of checks and balances will only add to healthy competition and will promote good business in the sector. At the same time, as a guarantor of telecom consumer protection, Authority believes that the issues pertaining to consumer interest and grievances shall be tackled in a broader but more focused manner,” he added. He said the same has been the vision behind the revamping of Consumer Complaint Handling and Redressal Mechanisms at the operators as well as Regulators’ end.—APP

Acting on the information provided by PTA Headquarters further investigation was carried out by PTA Zonal Office Quetta and a joint raid with FIA Quetta was conducted at the suspected place.

A large number of credit cards used for payment of bills for the mobile numbers involved in grey traffic were recovered from the scene. In addition a huge quantity of CNICs and post paid bills of mobile numbers used in illegal activities were also recovered. Two members of a gang involved in illegal termination of International Voice traffic were apprehended.

This is the first case of its type in Balochistan and a successful raid which resulted in arrests and recovery of evidence is a clear indication of commitment of PTA to curb the illegal international voice termination from the country.

Khurram Ali Mehran

Director (PR)

The package details are given above. If you wish to convert your package there are some simple steps you need to follow.
How to Convert Vfone Packages

• Vfone Customers can change their package by dialing 1015. This number 1015 needs to be dialed from the Vfone.
• The fee to change a package is Rs. 20
• As soon as you request a package it will be changed
• The above 20 Rs for package change include taxes.

Some facts
Your default package is simple but the existing bachat, kafayat packages will be mereged with new Vfone family packages
The packages mentioned above are not for PCOs as they have different packages.

ISLAMABAD—Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) would provide Free web-based SMS Alert System to around 60 educational institutes across country.
This SMS alert system will be used by schools to communicate with their students/staff. The PTA selected total of 60 institutes, including 21 colleges, 10 cadet colleges, 4 universities, one medical college and 5 special colleges for deployment of this SMS alert system.
As per details, Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has started a project named “SMS-based Information System” for educational institutions, to equip them with an interactive mobile application for broadcasting important information to students and their guardians on their mobile phones.
It is a system of sending SMS by using computer software developed by PTA. It has been noted that usually management of educational institutions relies on mail-correspondence with guardians, which is costly and time consuming. PTA would provide this software free of cost to educational institutions across the country.
A formal launching ceremony of the system was held today at PTA Headquarters. On the occasion, Naguibullah Malik, Secretary (IT), handed over the software application along with its operating manual to Abdur Rauf Chaudhry, Secretary (Education).
The application was presented to Ministry of Education for onward provision to the among public-sector educational institutions. Both the secretaries also exchanged PTA souvenir with each other.
This software would help recipient to be aware of events like lecture venue, coursework deadlines, result announcements, attendance details and upcoming school functions or meetings. Since majority of students and parents nowadays own mobile phones and most of them are familiar with sending and receiving SMS text messages, this solution for information dissemination introduced by PTA in educational institutions of Pakistan through SMS would prove to be an important information and communication source.
It may be mentioned that PTA was engaged in proliferation of mobile-based applications to facilitate information-based society culture in Pakistan. Today the mobile usage in Pakistan is growing exponentially, both in terms of number of users and the amount of activity.

Islamabad:
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority sent relief goods worth one million Rupees
for internally displaced persons (IDPs) of Malakand Division. The relief items
were sent from the PTA Zonal Office, Peshawar.

The
relief goods include electric fans, air coolers, stoves, mattresses and foods
items mainly flour, cooking oil, milk, rice, sugar, tea, pulses, baby food items
etc. The goods were distributed in
various IDPs camps located at Mardan Division.

The
above mentioned items were purchased and sent to the IDPs camps after a survey
by the PTA team which assessed the immediate needs of the displaced persons in
the camps.

While
talking on the occasion PTA officials said that the Authority is with the IDPs
in this hour of trial and would do its utmost to provide relief to the affected
people.

Khurram
A.Mehran

Director
(PR)

Telenor successfully launches Career Management Workshop In universities across Pakistan

SEP is an extremely interactive session where Faisal Khan discusses in detail giving real life examples of ‘do’s and don’ts of CV writing and interviews’. Mock interview is an integral aspect of this session and to date has received very warm response from the audiences. 

Also this session is for all interested students irrespective of their year of enrollment!

For suggestions/feedback you may write to us on  CMW@telenor.com.pk