PTA Crumbles in Achieving Goals

Byline: Zubair Ahmed Kasuri Pakistan Telecommunication Authority as a regulator of telecom sector has failed to deliver, what it has made promises last year. The introduction of 3G services was remained a distant dream, while the circle of its failures is quite vast, but a few trends which showed enormous increase indicating PTA's vulnerability; massive decrease in FDI, grey telephony, unregistered SIM card, lMEl blockage, subscribers rights protection, telecoms billing pattern and tariff procedure etc. these are the areas, where PTA gave up instead to dealt with severely