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In its first ever investment in Pakistan, Facebook has partnered with Nayatel to improve and expand connectivity across the country. — AFP/File ISLAMABAD: In its first ever investment in Pakistan, Facebook has partnered with Nayatel to improve and expand connectivity across the country. Under this partnership, Nayatel will own, build, maintain, and operate a new fibre network and provide wholesale capacity to mobile operators and ISPs while Facebook will invest in the fibre build and support network planning. This high-speed fibre will connect thousands of sites by 2022, and improve capacit...

Govt Scrapped Vehicular Bulk Data Deal Over Privacy Issues. But a German Firm Was Already Involved. The partnership with German firm ManServ, in Fast Lane’s own written admission, included sharing of “very sensitive information”. Photo: Reuters/B. Mathur/Files Read the first part of this investigation here. New Delhi: Months after India’s transport ministry allowed a New Delhi-based company access to data on Indian vehicle ownership and registration, the company went on to sign a separate and sensitive data sharing agreement with a German company, according to government d...

Open access in power market Under this system, consumer has choice of procuring or generating his own electricity ISLAMABAD: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) has recently issued its determination on the applicability of open access charges to consumers and has rejected a petition of the Central Power Purchasing Agency-Guarantee (CPPA-G) in this respect connected with wheeling charges. Buyers or consumer’s choice and competition are the basic tenets of capitalist markets. Under open access, the consumer has a choice of procuring or generating his own electricity. Open...