Your PTA licence gives you one year to launch
Plan your host integration, charging, and Commencement Certificate before the clock starts. A practical guide for Pakistani MVNO applicants.
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Why year one is tighter than it looks
The licence clock and the certificate both sit between you and your first paying customer.
1 year
To launch, or PTA terminates the licence
PTA MVNO framework, §10.1
0 customers
Before PTA issues your Commencement Certificate
PTA MVNO framework, §4.5
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Nigerian MVNO licensees fully launched by mid-2026
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What's inside the guide
The work between licence and launch, in the order you'll need it.
Plan your first 12 months
A three-phase roadmap from licence day to your Commencement Certificate and launch.
Turn your host agreement into specs
The questions to settle with Jazz, Ufone, or Zong on charging, provisioning, and settlement.
Test what breaks before customers do
Provisioning, low-balance, and failed-request scenarios to run before you go live.
Match your bill to your host's
How to reconcile wholesale usage so small differences don't add up later.
Check readiness, step by step
A pre-launch checklist covering billing, provisioning, settlement, and regulatory items.
From the guide: 12-month roadmap, host agreement specs, readiness checklist
Who this guide is for
Each business type starts from a different place. The guide covers each one separately.
Telecom and ICT companies
Add mobile without running a second billing and support operation.
Banks and digital wallets
Fit mobile activation into your app, and meet the telecom verification steps.
Fintechs
Trigger bundles and credits automatically from wallet and payment events.
Retail and e-commerce brands
Launch and change offers without custom development for every promotion.
Also useful for advisers guiding applicants and for host-operator wholesale teams.
Built on launches under new MVNO rules
PortaBilling has already been through mobile core integration and launch in markets like Pakistan's.
"…PortaOne demonstrated both the flexibility of its solution and the responsiveness of its team. Their support during integration and testing gave us confidence…"
Oct 2025
Vitel Wireless launches on PortaBilling, Nigeria's first new MVNO live
83 days
One Mobile, Sierra Leone's first 5G operator, from first contact to launch
Written by people who've done the integration
Roman Khalenkov, Chief Commercial Officer, PortaOne
Roman's team took Vitel Wireless from mobile core integration to launch in Nigeria, and has spent 2026 talking to Pakistani applicants, hosts, and advisers about the PTA framework.
16 pages: the 12-month roadmap, host agreement specs, test scenarios, wholesale settlement, and a pre-launch readiness checklist
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Questions applicants ask
Do I need my licence before I start platform work?
No, and waiting costs you time. PTA only accepts your application with a draft host agreement and a technical plan, and both depend on how your billing and charging will work. PortaOne helps applicants settle the platform before they apply.
How long does PTA take to issue the Commencement Certificate?
PTA doesn't publish a turnaround time. You can't sign or charge customers until you have it, so the guide recommends completing testing well before month 12.
Can't I just use my host operator's billing?
You can, and it's quick to start. The trade-off is that every tariff change goes through your host, and you sell variations of their packages. The guide compares that option with running your own platform, such as PortaBilling.
How is this different from The PTA framework decoded guide?
This guide covers what comes next: host integration, testing, settlement, and launch. The PTA framework decoded explains what PTA requires and whether to apply.
