{"id":259353,"date":"2026-01-23T07:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/259353\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T07:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:22:09","slug":"pta-denounces-fake-notification-about-mobile-tax-reduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/259353\/","title":{"rendered":"PTA denounces fake notification about mobile tax reduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/646664_6363824_updates.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) building in Islamabad. \u2014 AFP\/File\" width=\"700\" height=\"400\" class=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A view of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) building in Islamabad. \u2014 AFP\/File<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on Wednesday dismissed a \u201cfake notification\u201d circulating on social media regarding an alleged reduction in mobile taxes and instructions for mobile phone importers and consumers.<\/p>\n<p>In a X post, a spokesperson of the PTI clarifies: \u201cThis information is entirely false and misleading.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said that the PTA has issued no such directives and urged the people to refrain from sharing unverified information.<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson urged the public to rely only on PTA\u2019s official website and verified social media channels for authentic updates and announcements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A view of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) building in Islamabad. \u2014 AFP\/File Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61,60,202,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-259353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}