Pakistan Won 3 Telecom Awards at SAMENA Awards 2010

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SAMENA Awards 2010
SAMENA Awards 2010
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) and its chief Dr Muhammad Yaseen have been acclaimed with global awards as Most Progressive Telecom Regulator in South Asia and Best Telecom Regulatory Leader of the Year by South Asian, Middle Eastern and North African (SAMENA) Telecommun-ication Council in Casablanca. Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd. (PTCL) was also announced the winner of Best Fixed Operator award by the same council in recently held meeting.


Pakistan has received these awards in recognition of its competitive regulatory environments across the region coupled with unprecedented growth of Pakistan’s telecom sector under the supervision of its chairman Dr Muhammad Yaseen.

Dr Mohammed Yaseen was appointed as Chairman PTA in July, 2008. He earned his PhD from University of Essex, United Kingdom with specialization in Telecommunication Systems.

It may be pertinent to mention here that SAMENA, a multi-continent telecom consortium, provides a unified, consensus-based platform and voice for leading operators and service providers in the South Asia/Middle East/North Africa region, to interact, network, and collaborate with each other and with regulatory bodies, ministries, manufacturers, and suppliers in an unbiased working environment. SAMENA’s current network includes, Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.

Notably, however, organisations from countries of Asia Pacific, Europe and North America also form part of the SAMENA membership. Dr Mohammed Yaseen was appointed as Chairman PTA in July, 2008. He earned his PhD from University of Essex, United Kingdom with specialisation in Telecommunication Systems. His brilliant educational back ground was rewarded by Ministry of Science and Technology’s scholarship for Ph.D. After his Ph.D, he worked for the Essex University, UK, as Senior Research Officer, on projects funded by HP and European Consortium. Dr Mohammed Yaseen has more than 30 international and national publications on telecom technologies especially broadband, ICT growth, strategies and design of telecom networks.




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