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Pak telecom company signs MOUs with Reliance, BNC
Setting aside security concerns, state-run Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) has signed MOUs with two Indian Telecom companies to provide cable link between the two countries through the Wagah border.
Setting aside security concerns, state-run Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) has signed MOUs with two Indian Telecom companies to provide cable link between the two countries through the Wagah border.
Telecom giants Reliance and BNC inked the agreement while Indian Telecom is expected to join the pact shortly, officials said.
This is the first time that Pakistan has opted to have a direct link with India in the telecom sector. Last year the Indian companies were not permitted to take part in the bidding of privatisation of PTCL.
"Pakistan is ready to make the new cable operational as early as in a month. We are waiting for the final go-ahead from India," the 'Daily Times' quoted a top PTCL official as saying.
Pakistan showed interest in having an optic-fibre cable telecom link with India ever since the internet services were disrupted across the country last year due to snapping of an international undersea cable.
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