Re: ISPAK: Please confirm

Mon, 15 Oct 2001 04:40:38 -0700

Dear Arshad Bhai,

Thanks for the info, I wanted PTCL and MOST to take ownership of this as you have rightly indicated the time it will take for the implementation of these announcements before. Customers after these announcements come to us in reduction of rate per hour. And PTCL takes 6 Months to announce the reductions. If we say that we are waiting for the announcement,We are then presented to the Internet users as the self centered.

The rates reductions of PTCL are always welcome if they are made available in time. Now US$ Rupee parity is at 65 from 67. The overall effect will be there now not after 6 months.

Let us see when the Honorable Minister of Science & Technology get these orders implemented. But on the other hand we would like to thank Dr.Atta for taking steps which go in long way in developing IT & Telecom sector of Pakistan.

Regards,
Imran


At 02:53 AM 15-10-01 -0700, Mohammad Jalil wrote:

Dear All,

Yes, I was attending the function where  Dr.  Atta made this announcement in the presence of Chairman PTCL and he also assured that the same will further be reduced in the near future to US $ 4,000 for 2MB. We are all most grateful on behalf of ISPAK and the IT industry for this  announcement and hope PTCL will be able to issue the notification immediately and like in the past they took over six months for the implementation will not take very long.

Kind Regards

A. Jalil

"Engr.Imran Akhtar Shah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
My Dear Dr. Atta Sb,

Through this email, I would like to confirm the following news in the Business Recorder of Today. Your early response will help us as the Industry (ISP & DNOP) is directly effected by this announcement. We would also like to enquire that if the reported reduction in the bandwidth is true when PTCL will be able to announce it.
The news item is appended below:

.......Dr Atta said the 2 MB bandwidth rates had also been uniformed at 6,000 dollars. He said these rates had been reduced from 87,000 dollars a few years back. He said the government was also planning to reduce it to 4,000 dollars per month.
.......The minister said that now all the Internet service providers (ISPs), software companies and other institutions would be provided 2MB at 6,000 dollars.

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Engr.Imran Akhtar Shah

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Detail News Item:
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Cabinet to approve e-governance project on Wednesday; 2 MB bandwidth rates to be reduced to $4,000: Science and Technology minister
NASIR SIDDIQUI
.......KARACHI : Federal Minister for Science and Technology Dr Ata-ur-Rahman has said that e-governance project, which has already been submitted to the federal cabinet, will be approved on next Wednesday (October 17). Speaking as chief guest at the inauguration of first international multinode video conferencing held by the Karachi Institute of Information Technology at its premises on Sunday, the minister said that after the approval of the e-governance project by the cabinet, the government will spend about Rs 2.6 billion on this head.
.......He said out of Rs 2.6 billion, Rs 1.6 billion would be provided by the private sector while Rs one billion would be provided by the government.
.......He said that with the launching of e-governance project the problems of people regarding the payment of various utilities bills will be solved as they will be able to deposit their utility bills through ATMs or the Internet without being bothered to make long queues on the banks counters.
.......He said that the government has embarked upon various IT promotion programmes in the country.
.......The minister said that post-September 11 events, however, provided an opportunity to Pakistan to grab enormous opportunities in the information technology to catch up with the other countries which have made tremendous progress in this field. He said IT was progressing very fast but due to the September 11 attacks on the US, the progress has been slowed down quite considerably.
.......Dr Ata said that Pakistan is passing through its most crucial time and expressed the hope that by the grace of Almighty Allah the country would come out of it quite successfully.
.......About the measures the ministry of science and technology has taken to promote IT in the country, the minister said that the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited had done a great job in improving the basic infrastructure in the telecommunication sector. The PTCL authorities really deserve to be complimented for the job they had done.
.......He said that the S&T ministry was also planning to start giving scholarships for those students who want to do doctorate in the computer technology and the government would provide them an stipend of Rs 400,000 per student per year. He said batches would be formed and each one would consist of 20 students.
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