Archive for July 26th, 2008

A New Chapter For PTA

Published by Babar Bhatti on July 26, 2008 under Government Regulations, Pakistan, Telecommunications

The recent change in the leadership of PTA presents a good opportunity for the regulatory authority to take charge of the telecom situation in Pakistan. As reported widely in the media, Dr. Yaseen, former member technical of PTA, was appointed as the PTA head recently.

My first reaction was that a) change is good and b) a well-reputed technocrat is the right person for this position. Without knowing much about the internal power structure of PTA its hard to say about the impact of the change. I wish him all the best and look forward to some positive changes to PTA.

Here’s Dr. Yaseen’s profile - taken from Telecom Grid Pakistan.

After graduating from DCET (NED), he achieved Ministry of Science and Technology Scholarship in 1987 and completed his Ph.D. in 1992, from University of Essex, England with
specialization in Telecommunication Systems. After his PhD, he worked for:

1.      Essex University, England, as Senior Research Officer

2.      PTCL Pakistan, as Director Strategy

3.      Alcatel Submarine networks Australia as System and Project
Engineer,

4.      Advanced Networks and System Australia as Senior Consultant

He was working in Pakistan Telecom Authority (PTA) as Member Technical
for the last almost three years.

He has 30 International and national publications on Telecom
technologies, ICT growth, Strategies and design of telecom networks.

Dr. Yaseen has represented PTA at various International and National
forums including Asia Pacific Telecommunity (APT), where he was
selected as Vice Chairman, APT, Study Group 2 (Networks).