Law: Pakistan Telecommunication (Re-organization) Act, 1996

Section: 4

Pakistan Telecommunication (Re-organization) Act (XVII of 1996)--- ----S. 4---Functions of the Authority---Scope---Question before High Court was whether the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) could withhold issuance of service commencement certificates to the petitioner for certain telecom regions pending the adjudication of disputed dues for Access Promotion Contribution (APC) for Universal Service Fund (USF)---Held; by issuing the impugned letter, PTA was saying that, regardless of the merits of the petitioner’s defence to the demand for payment of APC for USF, PTA would not issue the commencement certificate, and in doing so, it would not let the customers of the concerned telecom regions benefit from the services of additional operators---Such was an egregious excess beyond the statutory mandate of PTA which, inter alia, obligated PTA to promote the availability of a wide range of high quality, efficient, cost effective and competitive…

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