Telecom Sector
Telecom Sector Seeks Tax Relief in Budget 2025β26
ISLAMABAD: The telecom sector has submitted a set of proposals to the government ahead of the federal budget 2025β26, urging tax relief and regulatory reforms…
Report Sheds Light on LDI License Renewal Challenges
The issue of LDI (Long Distance International) License Renewal in Pakistan is at the forefront of discussions within the telecommunications sector. Recent briefings from the…
PTCL Group Achieves 17% Revenue Growth in 2024
ISLAMABAD: PTCL Group has announced its financial results for the year ending December 31, 2024. According to a statement released after the Board of Directors…
Telecom Sector Faces Over PKR 17 Billion in Losses After the Floods
A detailed report of losses incurred by each telecommunication company will be submitted to the IT ministry, which will then make decisions about the compensations…
Telcos’ Excessively High Expenses Threaten 5G Development in Pakistan
Three out of four Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) in Pakistan have annual spectrum expenditures that exceed 10% of their earnings, posing a danger to the…
New 15,000km Submarine Cable Installed Between Pakistan and France
Just recently Pakistan and East Africa Connecting Europe (PEACE) Cable International Network Co. Ltd announced that the installation of a submarine cable infrastructure between Pakistan…
Telecom Sector Heavily Affected by Rupee Depreciation and Interest Rate Hikes: IT Ministry
The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MoITT) has acknowledged that the telecom industry is essential to digitalization in Pakistan. But on the other hand,…
Telecom revenue shrinks by 4.1% while telecom indicators rise up in FY21
In recent news, the telecom industry highlighted a recent decline in revenue which was by 4.1 percent to Rs. 541.4 billion in FY21. This was…
Pakistan’s Rs. 30 tax on each Rs. 100 spent on mobile services is the highest in the world: experts
In a webinar organised by the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics (PIDE) titled βInternet for allβ, leading technology experts lamented that the government collects Rs.…
Telecom sector added Rs278bn to Pakistanβs exchequer in 2020: report
The telecom sectorβs titanic status in Pakistan prevails as a recent report released by the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) shows that the sectorβs contribution to…
ECC agrees to reduce taxes on telecom sector
The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet officially agreed to cut taxes on the telecommunication sector on Wednesday. The ECC further asked for negotiations…
Pakistan’s Telecom sector received $92 million Foreign Direct Investment between July-August
Pakistan’s telecom sector is strengthening by leaps and bounds and the recent figure for the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the sector is further proof…