ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has signed two Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with Centre for Advance Studies and Engineering (CASE) and Institute of Space Technology (IST) to promote telecom related research that would be beneficial for the institutions, the telecom industry as well as for the country.
These MoUs would also boost mutual cooperation in the relevant fields and would enhance the industry academia linkages.
Main objectives of these collaborations are to support research integrated activities and to equip future leadership with theoretical and practical training in policy and regulatory issues of telecom sector.
It is expected the related organisations would benefit from this collaboration as young experts would be conducting research in the relevant fields of telecom with guidance of the faculty and PTA, which could be converted into entrepreneurship. Industry is working on venture capital for entrepreneurship activities.
Chairman PTA Dr Mohammed Yaseen said currently Pakistan has state of the art telecom networks while we were working on enhanced international communication links. We are planning to improve terrestrial links with Afghanistan, Central Asia and China, which would help economy and flow of information in the country, he added.
PTA would provide data on telecom sector and expertise to CASE and IST, reciprocally the universities would encourage their students to undertake research in different areas of telecom sector.
He said under the MoUs, PTA would help CASE and IST in identification of research areas.
Similarly, CASE and IST would cooperate with PTA on different issues of trade, business and economy related to telecom sector.
President CASE Dr Abdul Khaliq and Vice Chancellor IST, Brig Imran Rehman, also spoke on the occasion and emphasised on the need of telecom research in the universities.
PTA has taken significant steps that have received positive response from the all stakeholders. These initiatives include PTA Gold Medal Scheme, Essay Competition on World Telecom Day and cash prizes for best research project competition and SMS-based Information System for educational institutions.
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