Have you forgotten already?
PTA made a chilling mistake a couple of months ago in arresting and raiding an innocent company for alleged VoIP trafficing. A mistake that came at great personal loss to the CEO, for whom we have not seen any public letter of apology.
Now a lot of us shrugged this off as “a chilling but typical business day in PK”, but most of us forgot the most important question: Who was the business who was actually making the illegal calls that Cogilent Solutions was accused of?
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Ladies and gentlemen, I present that it was Pakistan Mobile Number Portability Pvt Ltd (name needs to be confirmed).
This is the monopoly organization that was established by the PTA to facilitate Mobile Number Portability services for cell phone operators. The central organization acts as a bridge for calls between all the mobile operators (see my previous post on MNP for details)
Is the fact that these calls were made by Pak-MNP a sign of the management that exists in the organization — i.e. are they, the pivotal organization in the Pak telecom environment, actually themselves making illegal telecom termination? Can they really be that corrupt?
Another question: The CEO of Pak-MNP is Mr. Tori Johnson (am I spelling this right?), who is also the CEO of Telenor, who have now invested close to $1B in the Pak Telecom environment. Why is Mr. Johnson still out of jail if it has been confirmed that Pak-MNP made those calls?
Is it because arresting him will result in an immediate withdrawl of Telenor’s business from PK, not to mention the $Bs in lost FDI in the future?
Somewhere in the chain of command, was there an actual decision made by someone to perhaps intentionally raid Cogilent instead of Pak-MNP to protect the interests of foreign investors?
Those would be large and seemingly ridiculous claims, but equally ridiculous are the circumstances of the raid and how that order was approved despite the law requiring three independent investigations (by PTA, PTCL and FIA) into any such incident claims before making the decision to raid someone.
Even if we dont get answers to conspiracy theories, we should atleast get a public lenghty description of what PTA / FIA are doing now with regards to Pak-MNP — how many people have been fired because of this collapse of a system?
Even if it is not a highly public explanation, atleast distribute it to the IT industry
