Internet

Services were disrupted after SMW5 cable system developed a fault near Egypt

Experts believe dedicated web portal will help farmers improve production

Authorities are working to resume fixed-line broadband services in region

Civil society organisations appeal to internet providers and mobile networks to resist the junta’s orders

4G mobile internet services being restored in Occupied Kashmir, says local administration

Pakistan has kick-started its journey to make most advanced 5G internet commercially available to consumers in 2022-23

Actor schools internet user after they reinstate that English is a prerequisite, irrespective of what anyone says.

Only 21 per cent respondents consider women’s use of the internet as good in Pakistan

Founded by the American-British entrepreneur Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia is now seventh-most popular website in the world

Revenue of the telecom sector crossed Rs552 billion in the financial year 2018-19

SpaceX is offering its Starlink broadband satellite internet service to test users for $99 a month

The service had been cut off since last August when Modi govt revoked semi-autonomous status of Occupied Kashmir

Makes it easier to approach it against ‘objectionable online content’

Pakistan’s score was 26 on a scale of 100, which classified it among states where internet is “not free”

Research indicates that cyber-attacks increased at a speed of 375 per minute in 2020

IT ministry committed to providing broadband services in Pakistan

Additional spectrum release to enhance 4g services in Pakistan

PTA cited negative effects of immoral/indecent content streaming through the applications as reason for the move

Number of mobile broadband subscribers increases to 82.76 million

Ultra-broadband will be able to support next generation of internet and back mobile 5G networks

Optic fibre cables should be laid as these have high data-carrying capacity

Imran says education is a must for utilisation of talent

IT minister says broadband project will create job opportunities, empower women

Service was halted for two hours as a protest against KE cutting broadband cables

In an effort to close its digital gap with the rest of Europe, Italy has been pushing for a unified network

Call for subsidising connections, boosting local phone manufacturing

BHC CJ orders AIG to submit a complete inquiry report on an immediate basis

Students have been staging demonstrations in Quetta for past few weeks under the banner of Baloch Students Alliance

The protesting students expressed the fear that they may lose an academic year just because they do not have internet

Protesters gathered in the Ghallanai Bazaar and blocked the Peshawar-Bajaur Highway for an hour

Covid-19 brought in traffic growth overnight, says Nokia's President of Fixed Networks

India and Pakistan are top two countries in South Asia asking Facebook information related to user account

Move aimed at meeting economic and technological challenges

Children are accessing the internet at a younger age, spending longer online and are at greater risk of cyberbullying

Trend observed despite increase in internet use as a result of shutdown

The first search engine Archie appeared in 1990, while currently 75,000 web searches are made per second

Twitter challenged 3.4 million accounts that appeared to engage suspiciously in Covid-19 conversation

Utilise cloud-based computing to run business during Covid-19 crisis

Despite Covid-19, the online retail sales nationwide increased 3% year on year in the first two months

There has been a 15% surge in internet usage since the lockdown came into effect, says PTA

Court says internet facility is basic right of every citizen

Recommends waiver on taxes on financial transactions made through mobile, internet

Advanced services in AJK, G-B will help people work from home, give govt billions of rupees in revenue

Telecom operators have taken an extra step to facilitate their users across Pakistan

Rising virus cases result in work-from-home policy

Mobile operator Vodafone to introduce 30-days free access to unlimited mobile data

Netflix said it will remove the highest bandwidth streams within each resolution category for next 30 days in Europe

Of the 1,923 parents surveyed, 32.2% said their children spend one to three hours online

In Pakistan only 20% of women have access to a smartphone

Parliamentary panel told govt working to extend network along three routes of CPEC