ZTE has won a several hundred million dollar contract for Telenor Pakistan’s country wide end-to-end network swap by ousting Nokia Siemens Network, we have confirmed with sources.
Riaz Asher Siddiqui has been appointed as CEO of Universal Service Fund to replace Mr. Parvez Iftikhar, with immediate effect, told us sources aware of the development.
Punjab Government has planned to distribute 100,000 laptops amongst the top achievers in MS (Hons.), MA, MSC, LLB programmes, said an advertisement published papers.
Arif Shafique has been appointed as Country Manager for Nokia Pakistan and Afghanistan region. He will be replacing Khalid Alvi, official sources told ProPakistani.
We told you; 3G won’t be as simple as it seems or the way our government is aiming to auction 3G licenses to grab Rs. 75 billion to straighten its balance of payment crisis. Exactly like I mentioned before, after welcoming notes earlier this month, operators have started to worry about their (forced) investments.
Mobilink, the largest cellular company of Pakistan, has decided in principle to outsource its entire call center operations, we have confirmed with sources in the company.
It seems that the Burraq, under development for four years and billed as a long range and high endurance armed UAV aircraft, first from Pakistan, may be ready for deployment.
PTCL will bid for 3G license, revealed today Mr. Walid Irshaid, CEO and President of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) during his keynote address at recently held UAE Trade and Investment Conference 2011 held in Karachi.
Pakistan unleashed its potential once again at the global platform as it has been ranked no 2 on Arabia Fast Growth platform, terming it an emerging hub of talented entrepreneurs. Pakistan’s 70 fast growing companies qualified for the Arabia500, putting the country in second position after Turkey with 117 winners.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has been long looked for to take necessary measures to cap the price war amongst the cellular operators in Pakistan, to make sure that these lowering tariffs don’t hamper the industry at large.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority is working on a mechanism under which mobile phone operators will filter SMS messages to check for black listed keywords to make sure that SMS messages with bad language aren’t delivered to mobile phone users.
Habib Bank Limited is reportedly all prepared to get into branchless banking business service in Pakistan to give competition to established rival like Easypaisa with a bank led branchless banking solution.
Pakistan Telecommunication Limited has issued survey results for measuring customers' perception for mobile phone companies. Without mentioning the number of responses or the demographics of participants, results said that Mobilink was ranked as excellent by 30 percent users to top the charts
Mobilink has reported total revenues of Rs. 24.45 billion in third quarter of ongoing fiscal year; up from Rs. 22.95 billion during the same period last year translating into YoY growth of 6.5 percent, said financial stats released by VimpelCom and Orascom Telecom.
Mobilink is up with this news for it’s prepaid customers, that it will deduct 2 percent operational fee (in addition to already applicable fees and charges) for those who will recharge their accounts through scratch cards. Moreover, 1 percent operational fee will be applicable on all Jazz to Jazz reloads.
