Ambassador1: first of all, you are going off topic, my comment was only to express objection on you saying " all the pak based tele-coms / ISPs are gulf owned now" and that’s it. and to support my objection i gave one line comment about each mobile operator and it was supposed to be enough. but now when you raised more questions, it only goes to show that you were really making things up. here are answers to your questions, and after this no more off topic posts from me on this
http://www.ameinfo.com/80159.html
and no matter if they own the management or not, the screening/ filtering is still done by PTA
when did i say its not? 26% share of etisalat (gulf) in PTCL and ownership of warid by abu dhabi holding (gulf), does not make it “all the telcoms in pakistan”
so you just thought… ok you were wrong, mobilink is owned by orascom
many… why? if you doubt its owned by china, zong is just a product, the operator is CMPak, which is owned by China Mobile.
you are again wrong here… there you go… Telenor Becomes Second Largest Cellular Company of Pakistan
as of 2008, telenor had become the 2nd largest cellular company in pakistan, mobilink 1st, ufone 3rd and warid 4th
since then number of mobilink customers are on a constant drop, if you ever visit to pakistan and spend some time there you will come to know.
there are other small WLL/CDMA operators (eg: WorldCall and few others i dont remember names). some of them operates (wired and wireless payphones) only in rural areas where other companies do not have good coverage
ok if its news to you, what was the source of information based on which you said that all telcoms in pakistan provide information to israel? you accused them first, so you are supposed to provide link. a little googling will easily reveal all this, so go google
most of the internet services are either directly owned by these large operators or they use their backbone, eg: link.net uses orascom (mobilink) multinet = ptcl and others. internet filtering is done under govt’s supervision by PTA and other agencies
i guess now its more than enough : )
if not do check out Pakistan’s profile at opennet