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Cross post from telecompk.net.

The Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2007 requires some serious revisions before it is passed by the Parliament in coming sessions. A PILDAT forum on the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Ordinance 2007  was held on October 26, 2009. The Forum included as its speakers Mr. Ejaz Khan, techno-legal expert and Partner Aqlaal Advocates, Mr. Tariq Khosa, Director General of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and MNA’s Ms. Anusha Rehman Khan and Ms. Marvi Memon.

The session was not attended by Interior and Information Technology Ministries and Standing Committees of both the Senate and the National Assembly despite invitations.

Below is the briefing of the happenings at the forum via PILDAT.

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Cross post from telecompk.net.

I have been debating a lot on 3G here, its upgrade paths and benefits. I also looked at the other side of the picture, how we can grow on our data services. At once it seemed that the 3G license was just on the edge with PTA conducting workshop on it and promising to support the technology. Now its almost a year now, nothing have happened and the licenses are still not auctioned.

We very well know that with technology things change rapidly. I just read few days ago that AT&T have changed their road map, and now they will focus on 4G. They tend to bypass the HSPA+ (an upgrade version of HSDPA) and be more aggressive on LTE plans.

When the world is racing for 3G and 4G, what are we doing? What will we follow? When will we follow?

I see the current state of industry being in an equilibrium, only an introduction of new technology can make way for growth in it. In conclusion of my Final Year Project on Evolution towards HSDPA, I proposed that we are already late for 3G as it has been introduced in the rest of the world, including a few of our neighbors including India. If PTA is unable to auction 3G licenses within the next four to five months, I would suggest they should then focus themselves on LTE technologies and start planning for LTE to keep up with the latest trends in the telecommunication industry worldwide.

Zumbeel- a telecom career etool, have been doing Live Forums (ZLF) from around a year to engage professionals in presentations and discussions sessions on the latest in wireless technologies, its prospects, career hurdles and opportunities and the progress of the industry.

This time around they are coming with a forum on a larger scale bringing together telecom and internet professionals in ‘Are You Online’.

Field of telecommunications and internet together have contributed a great deal to Pakistan’s economy, its image and has called for great investments that led to a new era of progress. Lot more needs to be done and this event will act as learning ground for top cream of Pakistan to learn what and how technologies have done to change the lives of normal people. And how they can use these technologies to enrich their career lives?

The event is scheduled on October 17, 2009 at Avari Towers, Karachi. To know more about free registrations, agenda and speakers profile visit the event website here.

‘Are You Online’ is exclusively sponsored by Telenor Persona Weblounge. Along with TelecomPk.Net event partners include Dawn, FM107, Teletimes, Personality Quotient and  Hire Labs.