Scams on Cell phone are on the rise in these days, sometime with juicy lotteries or otherwise with threat calls. Though, it is extremely difficult to have an unregistered SIM these days, so using an illegal SIM without owners’ information is not very easy, but still – fraudulent people find a way to trap innocent Read more »
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) organized a Forum for Telecom Consumer with a theme “Together for Consumer Rights”, said a press release issued here on Thursday. State Minister for Industries and Production, Dr Ayatullah Durrani was the chief guest on this occasion while Chairman PTA, Dr Mohammed Yaseen presided over the Forum. Consumer Representative, Suraiya Allahdin, Read more »
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has announced awards To encourage IT and Telecom students of Pakistan,The awards for those Students who have presented, prepared and submitted unique research project in Telecom and IT of extra ordinary level will be awarded with medals and cash prize. All Students of HEC recognized universities, who have completed their final research Read more »
Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) has announced that it will add “9″ digit with all public sector telephone numbers for Karachi and Lahore – those starting with 9 digit from July 01,2010. For EXAMPLE, 042-923-4466 will become 042-9923-4466 Earlier, Digit “3” was added to all existing 7 digits numbers of Karachi and Lahore except the Read more »
PTA has launched the mobile edition of its website, available in Wireless Application Protocol or WAP, mobile edition will allow cell phone phone users to access the optimized version of PTA website through their mobile handsets. Mobile users can now access PTA’s website here: http://wap.pta.gov.pk (will open in WAP browsers) WAP version of website contains Read more »
Pakistan Telecomunication company PTA in collaboration with allcellular phone operators Mobilink,Warid,Telenor,Ufone,Zong has started a project to update Customers’ data of four million customers who had SIMs issued on old ID cards. As per PTA estimates, there are around four million connections issued on old ID cards. Now these connections’ data will be updated with new Read more »
Now a days on crackdown against blasphemous content on Facebook earlier, PTA has blocked around one thousand websites, mostly of them are proxies, a service that is used to access pages from another country ip address. PTA officials confirmed that Facebook and Youtube were blocked at domain level, while Wikipedia, Twitter, Flicker were blocked at Read more »
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has directed all concerned operators in Pakistan to block Youtube till further orders. These directions have been issued in compliance with Pakistan Penal Code and the urge of masses against blasphemous drawings of Prophet Mohammad [PBUH]. Authority said that it has banned about 450 URLs besides YouTube and Facebook, which had Read more »
Today-Wednesday Lahore High Court (LHC) on ordered to block Facebook till May 31 which encourages members to draw Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) caricatures. Justice Ejaz Chaudhry said that the government should record its protest at international level. Hearing a petition regarding blasphemous page on Facebook, Chaudhry Zulfiqar Advocate said that Facebook hurt the emotions of Muslims Read more »
PTA is launching Today Urdu version of his website . Website is told to be exactly the same in terms of content, but in Urdu language. We are told that PTA is officially launching Urdu website Today in a ceremony, reportedly, Sardar Latif Khosa, Minister for IT and Telecom is going to inaugurate the website. Read more »
