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Achievements 2003-04
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Last Updated (Tuesday, 15 February 2005) |
- Fastest, transparent and fair deregulation of telecom
- FAB has been placed under the administrative control of PTA under the Cabinet Division
- Mobile sector exhibit growth of 108% in year 2003-04
- Two new Cellular Mobile Licenses awarded to M/s Telenor and Warid telecom against an amount of US$ 291 million each through open auction
- 12 LDI and 77 LL licenses issued to 33 local and international companies
- Rs. 1.7 Billion received as an initial license fee from LL and LDI licensees
- Spectrum auctioned for WLL to 23 companies through open bidding
- Over Rs.14 billion expected to be received from spectrum auction
- About 108 WLL licenses likely to be issued
- Activation charges on new mobile connections reduced by 50%
- PTA hosted SATRC meeting in Islamabad for the first time.
- A total of 55 items of terminal equipment were type approved during the year 2003-2004
- Type Approval on some of the IT related equipment withdrawn, to promote ICT
- 4-digit short codes planned to be allocated to the LDI and LL operators
- PTCL Reference Interconnect Offer (RIO) approved.
- Interconnect agreement between PTCL & card payphone operators concluded
- 141 licenses issued for value added services and 84 licenses issued for radio based services
- Video Conferencing allowed through hiring leased lines from PTCL
- PTCL’s GMPCS license modified
- Rs. 1,292,000 fined to 1476 Card Payphone PCOs for tariff violations
- PTA received and disposed of 5659 complaints
- Mobile Cellular Service Operators and PTCL directed to improve their Quality of Service
- Telecommunications Sector declared as Industry
- Fixed line working connections reached up to 4.5% in July 2004.
- Cellular penetration crossed the fixed line penetration in July 2004.
- SCO started its cellular operations in AJ&K areas of Pakistan.
- Total card pay phones in Pakistan reached 184669.
- Universal Service Fund (USF) has been created to boost connectivity in rural areas.
- Mobile phones allowed to be used as PCOs in rural areas where fixed line is not available.
- Tariff of fixed line reduced drastically, line rent by 33%, NWD calls by 7.2%, Air time (from mobile) ceiling by 8%, CPP charges (fixed to mobile) by 12.5%.
- Multi-metering on the calls to access internet eliminated.
- More than 2 billion USD investment expected by 2 new cellular companies to setup their infrastructure.
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