Supreme court’s Lahore registry has now remanded back the ICH case to CPP (Competition Commission of Pakistan) by saying that Lahore High Court is not mandated to suspend ICH. SC said that ICH case should be heard in accordance with law and resolved in 15 days by Competition Commission of Pakistan.

As per ICH directive, all LDI operators, except PTCL, were asked to suspend their international circuits for international incoming traffic and hence all international incoming traffic was practically landing on PTCL’s network only. All – other than PTCL – LDI operators were promised a respective revenue share from international incoming traffic according to their current market share.

Lahore High Court had earlier suspending the ICH and had directed Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to implement court orders by asking operators to revert back to international incoming charges at pre-ICH level.

Today, LDI operators approached Supreme Court against LHC’s decision and requested to restore ICH. The Lahore registry of Supreme Court nullified LHC’s decision and reinstated ICH. Supreme Court — in its order — said that Lahore High Court is not mandated to suspended ICH. Instead the case should be heard by CCP, the order said.

The ICH over ruling means the LDI operators will continue to charge extortionate rates for Pakistan calls. It’s worth mentioning that the calls to Pakistan mobile and landline were around 1.25 cents per minute, Pre ICH. Since ICH was imposed, the LDI operators and PTCL are charging as high as 8.8 cents per minute. This is almost 7 times increase increase in call charges and one of the highest jump seen in telecom international market in recent years.

Citing a source in Pakistan Telecommunication Authority, the paper reported that new sales fell by 75 percent, which translated into Rs. 4 billion as loss in revenues for five cellular operators in last two months.

Additionally, the government earned 29 percent less revenues during the reported duration as compared to the same period last year. If this trend goes on, the five operators may lose Rs. 35 billion in 2013 or around 10 percent of their revenues, and the government will collect Rs. 10.5 billion lesser in taxes.

Telecom industry is fearing that revenue loss due to forced network outages may grow big in coming days as cellular services are silenced during all national and religious occasions, which are usually the busiest and best paying days for the telecom sector.

PTCL sources have denied any blocking of the Skype Services. Skype support has said that they have also got numerous reports from Pakistan during past one week, suggesting that users are facing issues in making Skype to phone calls. Skype said that its developers have investigated the problem and found out that issue is with ISPs in Pakistan that is causing disruption in connecting calls from Skype to mobiles phone and landlines numbers.

Skype representative has confirmed that Skype to Pakistan Mobile Calls and Pakistan Landline Calls are routed through regular telephone numbers, and hence voice datamust pass through the traditional PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network). It further said that networks in Pakistan are possibly blocking voice data at PSTN level and hence this is something which Skype can’t control. There are countless users in Pakistan who use Skype services – and their unlimited packages – for making International calls. Small to medium sized call centres and tele-coaching and training centres heavily rely on Skype for making calls to western countries.

Telenor said that it will announce replacement for Ammer Izhar in coming weeks. Mr. Izhar was working with Telenor since 2004, before which he had worked for Mobilink for four years. Aamer was Vice President at Telenor since January 2011, during which he headed the corporate affairs.

Our sources tell that Aamer is moving to Canada for settling down there.

Telenor Pakistan is an international mobile carrier operating in Pakistan and offers packages to call Pakistan nationally at cheap rates.

Due to the recent actions by Pakistan Telecommunications Authority there will be a substantial increase of the calling rates to Pakistan on October 1st. This increase is affecting all calling providers. Read more.

From October 1 our call rates to Pakistan will be 6.6p per minute excluding VAT both for landline and mobile destinations. We understand that this increase is very unfortunate and we will continue working with our suppliers to find more cost-efficient rates.

Please note that despite of the increase, Inayatel is still the cheapest service to call Pakistan from abroad.

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The mobile telephony industry in China is dominated by three government run businesses: China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile. The three companies were formed by a recent revolution and restructuring launched in May 2008, directed by Ministry of Information Industry (MII), Nationals Development and Reform Commissions (NDRC) and Minister of Finance. All three companies have obtained 3G licenses and engaged fixed-line and mobile business in China. As of April 2012 China telecom industry has grown to 284.3 million fixed-line subscribers and 1.01 billion mobile customers. These technologies include ADSL, wireless LAN technology, IP (Internet Protocol) telephony and services associated with mobile communications such as Short Messaging Service (SMS), Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), ring tone download etc.

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