Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Mahmood Khan has said that he would soon visit Waziristan again to inaugurate the provision of 3G and 4G internet facilities in the region. He said this while he was attending a briefing by the Advisor to Chief Minister Ajmal Wazir at Chief Minister’s Secretariat. He said that the government is highly motivated to facilitate the people of FATA. Mahmood Khan said that the government stands committed to the overall integration of the newly merged districts with other areas which was in the interest of the province, people, country, nation and the whole region
In his remarks he made it clear that the people of the merged districts would be treated at par with the people of other areas of the country. Whatever the system and facilities existed in other areas would be expended to the newly merged districts.
In early February 2019 the Universal Service Fund (USF) awarded a contract worth Rs258 million to Jazz for providing voice as well as mobile broadband access to people of North Waziristan Agency, Frontier Region Bannu and Frontier Region Lakki Marwat. As part of the contract Jazz will install 28 towers in around a year for the 0.57 million population living in 401 un served Mauzas