KARACHI: Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), Dr. Muhammad Yaseen on Thursday announced that all unregistered SIMs will be blocked by May 17.
In a statement, he said verification process of SIMs through "668 Information System," is in full swing.
Dr. Muhammad Yaseen said PTA is in final stage of correction of SIM data and operators were receiving 400,000 applications daily in this regard.
PTA Chairman said that strategy is being evolved to tackle IMEI issue and government directives were awaited.
He said that there was no type approval of mobile sets that may be causing problems and sets having fake IMEIs will be banned in the market.
Mobile Tele-density has increased to 66.8% percent with 5% annual growth because of efforts to advance telecommunication sector through liberalized policies, said Dr. Muhammad Yaseen.
Broadband is considered as the next big thing to offer a unifying services platform for three converging industrial sectors: computing, communications and broadcasting.
Encouraging developments are happening in this sector since mid-2007, Pakistan has emerged as a lucrative market for broadband service providers owing to the huge potential it offers especially in the wireless broadband market, he said.
He said PTA has observed a profound evolution of broadband technologies over the years with the present subscription base reaching 1.2 million from 0.1 million in 2007.
Chairman of PTA also highlighted the statistics regarding broadband market.
He said that Broad Band Market of Asia is expected to reach 605 billion USD by 2011; the global BOP market for ICT is $30.5 billion; the amount of mobile payment transaction is expected to reach 300 Billion USD by 2013.
Dr. Muhammad Yaseen said that government and private sector need to work together to foster a new culture.
"We at PTA will continue to provide the necessary support to Industry and the other stakeholders," he said.
The pace of technological advancement is accelerating and ICT is increasingly becoming a ubiquitous and intrinsic part of people's behaviors and social networks as well as of business practices, government activities and service provision.
The PTA Chief said that he expects that transformations 2.0 to continue to move human progress forward by further leveraging ICT's positive social, political, and economic impact on governments, enterprise, and civil society alike.
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