Amid Intense Pressure in India, Facebook Teams Up With Telenor To Bring Internet.org In Pakistan

The controversial Facebook initiative to provide free internet access to selected services has now been launched in Pakistan in collaboration with Telenor Pakistan. This launch comes at a time when there’s a raging net neutrality over Internet.org going on in its neighbour, India. This announcement was made during an interactive event, which was attended by representatives from Telenor Pakistan…

DoT set to submit spectrum policy for cabinet nod

The department of telecommunications will seek cabinet approval for the spectrum sharing and trading policy by the end of June, communications minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Tuesday. “We have received the final recommendations from Trai (Telecom Regulatory Authority of India), and the department is looking into them,” Prasad told reporters. The Telecom Commission, the…