Network outage affects millions in Pakistan
By Editor on March 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Pakistan’s Mobilink has claimed that it has restored service after a fire at one of its server centers took out much of the network across the northern region of the country, including the suspension of services in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
The fire at the facility in Islamabad was brought under control fairly quickly, but it took the network nearly a day to restore services. It has been reported that up to 10 million people were left without phone service during the network outage which started on Sunday evening.
Prime Minister, Yousuf Raza Gilani directed the Information Technology Ministry to investigate why the problem occurred and why the network took such a long time to switch over to back-up systems.
According to Mobilink Public Relations Director Omar Manzur, all services have been restored and their customers should not be experiencing any difficulty.
According to a spokesperson, the fire in the battery room is being investigated by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA).
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PTA considers spectrum fee increase (Pakistan)
By Editor on February 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The license fees for commercial radio-based services is planned to be increased by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) in order to ensure an efficient use of available spectrum.
The views of the operators has been asked by the regulator before implementing new spectrum charges for services including Land Mobile Wireless, Point-to-Point (P2P), Broadcasting, and aeronautical and maritime communications.
769 licensees are currently there in the categories including 495 private licensees and 251 government licensees.
An increase in annual spectrum charges after lapse of ten years is considered in PTA’s proposal to maintain the quality of services and manage the demand for frequencies amid increasing demand.
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Pakistan adds 2.7 mln mobile subscribers in June
By Editor on August 15, 2006 · Leave a Comment
The mobile subscribers base in
Pakistan has crossed 34.5 million people, having added 2.7 million new subscribers in June this year, according to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Chairman Shahzada Alam Malik. Speaking to journalists at the IT and Telecom (ITCN-2006) conference held in
Karachi recently, he added that the telecommunication sector had grown by 170 per cent in the previous year.
Source- http://www.telecompaper.com
Technorati : Mobile, Operator, Pakistan, Telecom
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