{"id":58407,"date":"2024-12-07T11:42:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T06:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=58407"},"modified":"2024-12-07T13:13:49","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T08:13:49","slug":"pta-allows-users-to-register-vpns-against-mobile-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pta-allows-users-to-register-vpns-against-mobile-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"PTA allows users to register VPNs against mobile numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has announced that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/pta-extends-vpn-registration-deadline-once-again\/\">virtual private networks<\/a> (VPNs) can now registered against mobile numbers to facilitate freelancers who lack a static IP address.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Saturday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/technology\/pta-to-launch-second-crackdown-on-unregistered-vpn\/\">telecom authority<\/a> said,\u00a0&#8220;The step is aimed to further simplify the VPN registration process for facilitation of the IT industry&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The regulatory body further revealed that so far over 31,000 VPNs have been registered, advising users to register the VPNs against mobile numbers by accessing PTA&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the telecommunication authority initiated the crackdown against unregistered VPNs in light of security concerns raised by the concerned authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The body had initially set out a November 30 deadline for VPN registration. However, later it decided to not block VPNs on the expiration of the deadline maintaining that it would go beyond it.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Interior had announced to begin the process of shutting down all unregistered VPNs by the middle of November but later announced a two-week &#8220;grace period&#8221; allowing the unregistered VPNs to comply with mandatory registration requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has announced that virtual private networks (VPNs) can now registered against mobile numbers to facilitate freelancers who lack a static IP address. In a statement issued on Saturday, the telecom authority said,\u00a0&#8220;The step is aimed to further simplify the VPN registration process for facilitation of the IT industry&#8221;. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":58408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13446,2],"tags":[4913,24580,24387],"class_list":["post-58407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-pakistan","tag-pakistan-telecommunication-authority","tag-vpn-registration","tag-vpn-registration-deadline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58409,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58407\/revisions\/58409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}