{"id":997394,"date":"2026-03-11T07:24:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T01:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=997394"},"modified":"2026-03-11T07:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T02:04:47","slug":"pakistan-sells-480-mhz-of-5g-spectrum-for-507-million-government-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/11\/pakistan-sells-480-mhz-of-5g-spectrum-for-507-million-government-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan sells 480 MHz of 5G spectrum for $507 million, government official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan sold a total of 480 MHz of 5G telecom spectrum for $507 million on Tuesday, \u200cthe country&#8217;s \u2060telecom \u2060authority chairman announced after a live auction. <\/p>\n<p>The winners include Jazz, Ufone and Zong, said Hafeez-ur-Rehman, who is also a \u2060retired Pakistani \u200cmilitary general. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Out of a total of \u2060595 MHz, God be praised, 480 MHz was sold today,&#8221; he said in comments broadcast live on state-run PTV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan sold a total of 480 MHz of 5G telecom spectrum for $507 million on Tuesday, \u200cthe country&#8217;s \u2060telecom \u2060authority chairman announced after a live auction. The winners include Jazz, Ufone and Zong, said Hafeez-ur-Rehman, who is also a \u2060retired Pakistani \u200cmilitary general. &#8220;Out of a total of \u2060595 MHz, God be praised, 480 MHz was sold today,&#8221; he said in comments broadcast live on state-run PTV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-997394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}