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The revised right-of-way clause restores the owner veto the bill was written to remove — while Jazz alone plans 1,500 more 5G sites by December.
8 Sep
Pakistan's Finance Division is building a centralised merchant database for real-time visibility of digital transactions, with the SBP, NADRA and the IT ministry involved.
4 Sep
Pakistan trained 30 engineers in chip design and placed 23 of them, at salaries around Rs150,000 a month. The skill is globally portable and the salary is not globally competitive.
3 Sep
Jazz and iTecknologi are launching Drivver, a ride-hailing platform with data-free booking on the Jazz network and a fixed driver cost instead of percentage commission.
2 Sep
Mobile tariffs in Pakistan rose 12-22% in the year to June 2026 across all four operators, the government told the Senate. The PTA denies monthly increases of 10-20%.
1 Sep
Aerial cable rent at a Lahore industrial estate has risen 500% from Rs50 to Rs300 per metre, with underground fees up as much as 333%. Operators say it breaches federal right-of-way policy.
31 Aug
Nayatel has launched object storage hosted inside Pakistan at Rs15 per GB a month. The storage rate is above international list prices — the currency and residency case is stronger.
27 Aug
PVARA and the State Bank are studying tokenised sovereign bonds for the diaspora. Unlike tokenised real estate, a government bond has no registry problem — the issuer is the record.
26 Aug
Jazz slipped to 36.09% of Pakistan's mobile market in July while Ufone gained. Combined with Telenor under PTML, the merged operator sits at 36.03% — effectively a tie.
25 Aug
