Viper Technology, has been nominated as Pakistan's first Intel's Authorised Service Provider (IASP)

Tweet Pin It KARACHI :Pakistan's leading IT solution providers, Viper Technology, has been nominated as Pakistan's first Intel's Authorised Service Provider (IASP), enabling the firm to provide its clients with support and efficient warranty services on Intel-based machines.

This is the first time that any IT company in Pakistan has been awarded the status of IASP by Intel. This will not only promote the local IT firms but will also enable the Pakistani technology providers to work at international standards.

Being appointed as an IASP in Pakistan, enables Viper Technology the benefits of unrestricted advanced warranty replacement. The company will also have the benefit of technical troubleshooting training and certifying employees who complete it successfully.

Viper Technology is currently providing desktops, mobile and server solutions to the SMB and enterprise segments including banks, media houses, defence, textile, and education sector.

Viper Technology CEO and President Pakistan Computer Association, Khushnood Aftab said: "It is an honour to be the first company in Pakistan to have been appointed as IASP. Viper has been devoted to the local IT industry for 15 years and has always been in the forefront to bring the latest technology to the country.

IASP contract has fortified our stance on providing our clients with IT solutions that are secure, cost-effective and more flexible than ever." Sharing his insight on the features of this contract, Khushnood said: "Viper Technology is committed in supporting the customers with unique approach that is attentive, responsive and reliable, helping them to grow with complete confidence."-PR

PTCL is denying the rights of private Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) is denying the rights of private Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to install broadband DSL connections to their customers using PTCL’s copper line network.

ISP Association of Pakistan (ISPAK) stated this during a press statement on Tuesday. ISPAK stated that for the last five days, PTCL has not been connecting ISP customers’ DSL connections on the pretext that it was making the provisioning system automated. This move has left hundreds of new customers without a broadband connection across the country for the last many days.

ISPAK stated that under the agreement and standard operating procedure, PTCL has to connect a new connection within 48 hours, but PTCL has been denying the rights of ISPs. Insiders tell that since PTCL is operating its own retail broadband DSL services and wants to attract the customers to its own network, it is creating delays in connections of its competitor ISPs. ISPs and PTCL have a history of bitter relations with formers accusing the only fixed line operator to adopt strong-arm tactics, anti-competitive behaviour, and predatory pricing. staff report

ISPs, PTCL row settled …

Tweet Pin It ISPs, PTCL row settled ISLAMABAD (May 19 2009): Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) has decided to allow the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and DSL operators to buy Internet bandwidth from backbone operators other than PTCL

thus settling a two years row of ISPs versus PTCL. ISPs has been complaining to PTA to amend their DSL Interconnect Agreement with the PTCL signed during the monopoly days of PTCL few years ago in which ISPs were restricted to procure Internet bandwidth from PTCL only.

Since telecom deregulation in 2004, new operators have laid their infrastructure nationally as well as internationally and two years back, second alternate backbone provider, TWA, started its services in the country.

But DSL operators who are major purchaser of Internet bandwidth, were restrained by their unilateral agreement with PTCL not to buy bandwidth form any operator other than PTCL. ISPs have been complaining to PTA time and again against this monopolistic and anti-competitive restriction that did not allow them to have redundancy and benefit of competitive prices from alternate operator.

PTA, after a series of negotiations, have finally issued the minutes of the meeting held between ISPAK (Internet Service Providers Association of Pakistan) and PTCL in PTA on 5 May 2009 in which it was decided that ISPs will be free to buy Internet bandwidth from third party operators and would be allowed to their optical fiber cable to one PTCL exchange per city. PTA has also decided that PTCL will not increase charges of its leased circuits used by DSL operators for inter-exchange bandwidth for next one year.

PTA ends PTCL’s Internet bandwidth monopoly…

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) has decided to allow the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and DSL operators to buy Internet bandwidth from backbone operators other than the PTCL, thus settling a two-year row of the ISPs versus the PTCL.

The ISPs have been complaining to the PTA to amend their DSL Interconnect Agreement with the PTCL signed a few years ago in which the ISPs were restricted to procure Internet bandwidth from the PTCL only. Since the telecom deregulation in 2004, new operators have laid their infrastructure nationally as well as internationally and two years back, second alternate backbone provider, the TWA, started its services in the country.

But the DSL operators, who are the major purchaser of Internet bandwidth, were restrained by their unilateral agreement with the PTCL not to buy bandwidth from any operator other than the PTCL. The ISPs have been complaining to the PTA time and again against this monopolistic and anti-competitive restriction that did not allow them to have redundancy and benefit of competitive prices from alternate operator.

The PTA, after a series of negotiations, has finally issued the minutes of the meeting held between the ISPAK (Internet Service Providers Association of Pakistan) and the PTCL on 5th May 2009 in which it was decided that the ISPs will be free to buy Internet bandwidth from third party operators and would be allowed to link their optical fibre cable to one PTCL exchange per city. The PTA has also decided that the PTCL will not increase charges of its leased circuits used by the DSL operators for inter-exchange bandwidth only for the next year.

The PTA has reserved a judgment on settling the DSL wholesale and retail prices of the PTCL and committed to resolve this long outstanding issue within a month. Pakistan has come a long way from the early days of Internet in 1990s with only one submarine cable connecting the country with rest of the world. The country today has three submarine cables linking Karachi with Southeast Asia, Europe and North America named as SWM3, SMW4 and TWA, first two with the PTCL and the third with a private operator. The total Internet bandwidth to the country stands at around 18 gigabytes, growing at around 45% every year for the last three years.