Raid on Illegal Gateway Exchange

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) alongwith Federal Investigation agency (FIA) Saturday conducted a successful raid and seized a functional illegal gateway exchange.

According to details, PTA and FIA teams through combined efforts not only traced the exact location but also carried out raid in PMA Trade Center.

One person running the setup was also apprehended during the raid, said a press release issued here Saturday.

This successfull raid, which was made possible because of continuous monitoring shows the commitment and persistent efforts; PTA is putting in curbing the menace of grey traffic.

The confiscated illegal setup consists of gateways, tellulars, switches, routers and number of SIMs of different operators.

Moreover, the campaign against illegal telephony has resulted in blocking of more than 55,000 mobile SIMs alongiwth IMEIs.

It may be added that PTA with the state of the art monitoring facility is observing the international traffic coming in to the country, round the clock.

The aim of monitoring is to identify the illegal gateway exchanges and track the elements operating them.

Such exchanges bring huge loss to the national exchequer as well as to the telecom sector.

Copyright APP (Associated Press of Pakistan), 2011