PTA hosts WLL Spectrum auction for Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan
From the Blog smartchoice This Tuesday, Pakistan Telecommunications Authority(PTA) held a spectrum auction at their headquarters for Wireless Local Loop(WLL) services in Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan. Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd(PTCL) and LinkDotNet Telecom Ltd(LDN) took part in the auction of 3.5GHz spectrum in the TR-I Mirpur region. The auction included representatives from the AJ&K and Gilgit region, Ministry of Information Technology(MoIT), Frequency Allocation Board(FAB) and the telecom industry in general. The auction took place in a fair and transparent manner via open outcry loud auction method. LDN put up the highest bid at PKR 10 Million for the first lot whereas PTCL matched the bid and took the second lot for the same price. Spectrum will be awarded after the clearanpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
Silence in Kosh Kalat
From the Blog odysseuslahoriAccording to legend, the ancient town of Kech, known variously as Turbat, boasted some 2,000 leather embroiderers and cobblers. Today, Qazi Lal Buksh is the last remaining practitioner of *chakankari* or leather needlework, at least in Balochistan. By his account, it was because of the large population of these artisans that the town’s precinct of Kosh Kalat – literally Shoe Fortress – took its name. *Tools and raw material of the chakankari master’s trade* While he continues to craft women’s slippers, male footwear has gone out of fashion. The latter was a shoe with an upturned toe, equipped with a sewn anklet that sometimes reached up to the knee like greaves used by horse riders. The design for the shoe came down through nearly two millenniums of equestrian history. As well apakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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