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Message of
CEO
USF on
WTISD
2010
Parvez Iftikhar
CEO, Universal Service Fund
On the occasion of World Telecom & Information
Society Day 2010, I am immensely pleased to note that
Universal Service Fund of Pakistan is already very
actively involved in promoting this theme, strongly
believing that today better cities are only possible
through ICT’s.
Universal Service Fund Pakistan started the program
to spread broadband in all the second and third tier
cities of the country towards the end of 2008. A survey
had revealed at that time that broadband existed in the
country only in about a dozen large cities. The program
“Broadband for un-served areas”, was started on a
telecom-region by telecom-region basis and the first
contract was signed on 27th April 2009. Today, in less
than 13 Months, one notes with satisfaction that
broadband has been rolled out in more than 80 cities of
the country, with 72,000 broadband connections
already working. All this is apart from the other
programs of Universal Service Fund where thousands
of un-served villages are being provided basic telecom
facilities and thousands of kilometers of optic fiber
cable are being laid to connect all un-served Tehsils of
the country with information highway.
It is with this great zeal and enthusiasm that we
celebrate WTIS Day 2010, firmly believing that with the
spread of broadband the ICT’s will lead to a silent
revolution to prosperity for the masses.
WTISD
2010
World Telecom & Information Society Day
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WTISD
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Broadband Program of USF

Broadband programme aims to deliver the social and economic benefits of ICTs to
the masses through affordable broadband, thus helping to achieve Government’s
objective of breaking the poverty cycle and eliminating the social divide.  Broadband
is also a key element of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals on
poverty reduction and is globally bringing a paradigm shift to the way people run
their lives. It is also transforming every facet of communications, from entertainment
and telephone services to delivery of vital services like health care.
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