Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has finally decided to suspend the illegal SIP phone services by the BrainTel Pakistan in continuation of their show cause notice dated October 15th, 2008. I myself is also one of the victim of the poor quality of the braintel services and had cancelled my services with them a year before. Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has suspended BrainTel’s License under section 23 of the act.
PTA observed that Braintel unauthorized originated 450,814 international telephony for 65,482 international telephony calls and terminated those minutes in different countries through IP address 119.63.130.98 by using their SIP over non-standard port 8891 from 14th May, 2008 to 30th June, 2008. Furthermore, it has also unauthorized terminated 2,442,779 international telephony minutes accounting for 339,917 international telephone calls in Pakistan through IP address 119.63.130.98 by using SIP over non-standard port 8891.
The braintel website is still in operation and attracting new people to apply for their services http://braintel.net.pk/getanumber.htm
Full Details of The PTA Decision
Once a person lost his horse. After making long failed attempts to find it, finally he start thinking like a horse and then left his house like a horse and afterward shortly found him close to his lost horse.
I think its right time that braintel should also start usage of ‘brain’ and before starting this process must read the following:
http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/feb2009-daily/28-02-2009/col6.htm
I think any of the following ‘strategies’ should equally work well.
1) Find an appropriate front man of president or prime Minster or chief of army staff.
2) Make deal with Taliban (s) to restore this service (this may be more appropriate as PTA authority would not prefer getting ‘beheaded’ from backside of the neck).
3) Immediately start joint venture with AWT (army welfare trust).
Dear Brain Tel Users,
Brain Tel services were suspended on 17th February, 2009 consequent to passing of determination order by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority against Brain Telecommunication Ltd.
This PTA determination order dated 17th February 2009 for the suspension of Brain Tel license can be downloaded from following PTA web site:
http://www.pta.gov.pk/media/det_brain_170209.pdf
An appeal was immediately filed against above determination order before the Honorable Islamabad High Court which was fixed for hearing on 6th March 2009, which can be downloaded from following site:
http://www.brain.net.pk/pta/AppealAgainstDetOrder170209.pdf
On this date of hearing i.e., 6th March 2009 the Honorable Islamabad High Court was pleased to set aside PTA determination order dated 17th February 2009 and has remanded the matter to PTA for deciding it afreash.
The Court order can be downloaded from following web site:
http://www.brain.net.pk/pta/CourtOrder6March2009.JPG
As a consequence of order dated 6th March 2009; PTA is in the process of issuing directions to relevant LDI operators to restore our services and Brain Tel telecom services are expected to be restored very soon. Inshallah.
Brain Tel is waiving off number retention charges from 17th February 2009 to 28th February 2009 in February 2009 billing, in terms of fairness.
Since the matter was a consequence of PTA orders, hence the service unavailability was un-avoidable, however do accept our apology for the inconvenience caused.