The two companies are already developing a range of cheap and portable Internet appliances that will enable people to use on-line services as routinely as they make a telephonecall.
"He said he was calling from Miranshah in North Waziristan and the telephone number used to make the call carried an area code common to the Waziristan tribal area and Bannu, the adjoining district in the North West Frontier Province, " the paper said.