Now You Pay Your Phone Tax Online

The Government has come up with new plan which help international passengers who plan on bringing more than one mobile phoned with them.
You will no longer to stand in queues to get the mobile phones registered either at airport or Customs office.

The owners will soon be able to register their mobile phoned within seconds.

The passengers will be able to bring phones to their homes without having to deal with Customs or airport official and will be able to get their phoned registered online within fifteen days of their arrival.

How to Register?

International travelers will meed to sign in to dirbs.gov.pk and submit a request for registeration.
It will ask for IMEI number for verification.
System will make sure the provided IMEI number is unique, not cloned or stolen in its database.
After confirmation system will whitelist the unique IMEI number and it will register it against your name.
In case of more than one phone owner will have to pay due tax before registering phone.

How to Pay Customs Duty?

PTA and Ministry of IT informed the Senate Committer that the international passengers will also be able to pay Customs duty/tax through web portal which will accept payments from all major banks, ATMs, mobile wallets.
For payments indivudual will have to enter CNIC, passport number and IMEI and mobile specifications.
After verification system will generate a Payment Slip Identity PSID code along with duties and taxes.
Individual will pay taxes via banks, mobile wallets or other payment source.

Online portal will ve available for testing on January 25, 2019 - PTA

Verizon, Samsung to release 5G smartphones in 2019

Verizon Communications Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd confirmed long held industry expectations they would seek to steal a march on Apple Inc by Launching U.S 5G smartphones in the first half of 2019.

Two companies said in a statement they would unveil a prototype using Qualcomm Inc modern chips at chipmakers annual Sanpdragon Technology Summit in Mui Hawaii this week.

Verizon is leading the charge to trial 5G in some cities next year industru analysts said the higher speed networks are unlikely to be widely available until the middle of the next decade.

Apple is engaged in a legal battle with Qualcomm that has led it to stop using its modern chips and the Cupertino California company is widely expected instead to use Intel modern which will not be ready for production untill late 2019.

Citing source familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reprted Apple would wait until at least 2020 to release its first 5G iPhones.

The delay could make it easier for Samsung and Verizon to win customers who are eager to connect to 5G networks which will provide a leap forward in mobile data speed up to 50 or 100 times fater that 4G networks.

Qualcomm has also parynered with other Qualcomm makers who have commited to 5G phones for next year.

U.S witeless carrier Spirit Corp is also working with LG Electronics USA to launch 5G smartphone in US in the first half of 2019.

Verizon launched first commercial 5G service in October when 5G home offering went live in Houston, Indianapolis, Los Angeles and Sacramento.

Verizon C.F.O Mathew Ellis said that company pland to target a broader audience for its 5G home broadband products following the adoption of global standards for technology.